The new BBC Comedy Soup website launched today. It’s ‘a breeding ground and showcase for original comedy’. You can upload comedy images and, er, e-mail in audio and video, rate other people’s stuff, download Creative Archive stuff to use in your stuff, and there’s even tagging and tag clouds. My favorite bit of the site [...]
Phew, I made it through the Student Radio Spring Conference 2006, where I spent Monday to Wednesday this week running around welcoming speakers, chatting to delegates, and introducing the sessions. I’ll probably write more about the sessions and the organising and thinking behind the conference over the next few days, but first I just wanted [...]
This is old news, but the Ricky Gervais podcast entered the record books for being the ‘most downloaded ever’. With a new series of the podcast planned to be paid-for (at 95p a show), I predict that this will also get into the record books for being the ‘most pirated podcast’…
James Cridland (of Virgin Radio) compares last.fm (and similar) with Virgin Radio. Whether algorithms can pick music choices better than a radio station Head of Music is an interesting question. Obviously, last.fm and similar have the leg up in that they can do personalisation, which broadcasting, by its very nature, can’t do. James claims that [...]
So I pick up my Guardian on the way to work this morning, and there above the masthead is a promotion for the new Ricky Gervais podcast. No further explanation or page reference, just the Guardian’s website URL. The webpage has a quick self-deprecating introduction (“A half-hour of all-new drivel from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant [...]
I went to a talk yesterday afternoon called Online Marketing at the Crossroads (sponsored by SEO company Latitude, in association with NMK). It was only two hours long, it was in the basement of an odd private members club off The Strand, and it was pretty good. Paul Doleman from Latitude opened the even with [...]
I’ve already written up a quick reaction to ‘Podcastcon’, the podcasting conference that took place on Saturday, but this is a more in-depth review of the day. I’ve already praised the conference for being very interesting and well-organised, so this entry is taking a more critical approach. 9:30am – Welcome Neil Dixon introduces the conference [...]
I went along to the podcast con[ference] today, as previously plugged. In many ways, it was a really successful conference, being really well organised, in a decent venue, with some good speakers and an interesting range of delegates. I’m not going to bother blogging my reactions to any of the individual talks just yet, thoughts [...]
I thought I’d just quickly give Podcast Con, a UK conference on podcasting, a quick plug, as it looks like a great event. The sign up list is a simple wiki, and it costs £30 pounds, which includes some food. Oh and it’s on Saturday 17 September in London. I’ve already signed up, in fact [...]
I’ve been trying out Odeo, the new website that aims to make listening to and creating podcasts easy. It seems pretty good so far, but I was amused to hear the usually deep sounding Radio 4 voice having been sped up: listen. Odeo calls this ‘chipmunking’, and explains why it happens in its FAQ: “The [...]