February 23rd, 2008
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AppleInsider this week presented some speculation of Apple placing more control of podcast content in the hands of the consumer/audience.
iTunes will enable you to stitch together a series of podcasts into a single assembled episode containing only the content of your choice:
A 20-minute customized podcast, for instance, could consist of [...]
November 27th, 2007
The simple answer to this question is, of course, ‘yes’. But that clouds the river of challenges in bringing a blog to life in a way which generates anything more than money for a few pints of beer.
I have been studying a great deal lately about how successful blogs - from a monetary perspective - [...]
November 25th, 2007
At first I wasn’t convinced, but these lovely little mini business cards have been growing on me. There was a huge geek-fuss about Moo cards when they first appeared, then an even bigger noise when they introduced Moo stickers.
If you have not come across them, moo produce mini printed cards, stickers, and greetings card. [...]
March 8th, 2007
If I was going into business within the UK podcasting space right now (note I don’t refer to it as an industry), what would I do?
Set up a network? No.
To make this work commercially takes money, real money. There are already a small number of players here and the set-up time curve is way too [...]
October 19th, 2006
News | Consumers unwilling to pay for podcasts - NMA
Yet another survey confirming that pay-to-download podcast services may be focusing on the minoity audience. These results are pretty much aligned with other surveys done earlier this year in both the US and Canada and should be carefully considered by anyone deciding how to monetise their [...]
September 29th, 2006
We (jEN and I) were due to be in Lanzarote right now. Instead, I am looking at a ridiculously intensive few days working with Podshow, and a holiday in Madeira near the end of November. The current project is more than enough motivation to postpone a holiday.
The more closely I work with the Podshow team, [...]
September 5th, 2006
This link demonstrates just how many sites refer, in one way or another, to podcasting as an ‘industry’… google count them: 195,000.
The notion of this new media form being an industry in itself is absurd. It’s akin to labelling photographers who digitally post-process their images as working in the ‘Photoshop industry’, or the Microsoft [...]
July 4th, 2006
Last month, however, just after the official 30 days’ payment had passed, I popped a pleasant letter in the post asking for the account to be brought up to date…. So with the payment date of the second, much larger invoice approaching last week, I though it wouldn’t hurt to stick a little reminder in, this time before the due date.