Despite concerns of dozing off with jet-lag gnawing at my heels, I went to see the new X-files movie with a positive and hopeful frame of mind. The movie, just as with the first installment, has been criticized as being little more than a long TV episode. Really, I thought, what else can you expect [...]
Changing it up this week with a show from Waterstones bookstore, maidenhead, and an interview with the prop maker from the first three Indiana Jones movies, and the famous golden idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark (though she didn’t say much).
UPDATE May 2008: The PodShow discount offers in this post are no longer available – buy from Amazon. UPDATE March 2008: Amazon have reduced their price on the N810 to match the PodShow offer. Yes, I want a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Having played with the one spare unit floating around the office over the [...]
We can have their donuts, their missiles, and their fast-food fed wobble-bottoms, but we will never have their mailboxes. The most disappointing aspect of this slice of Americana which will always be out of our reach in the UK, is the imagination – if not necessarily the required creative and practical skills to do a [...]
The take-up of new listeners to podcasting is, according to survey sources earlier this year, about to surge, yet the number of new independent podcasts appearing is on a definite lull right now.If you fancy putting together a podcast, here are specific areas where there is very little competition in the UK for niche audiences (in no particular order).SportFootball and F1 are covered, but where are Cricket, Rugby, Rallying, Tennis?… There’s a whole wealth of subjects here which are simply not covered by independent podcasts, and very little by commercial ones.Health & FitnessWe are apparently rapidly catching up with the US on the size of our butts, so fitness and health are areas we should have covered.FinanceThere have to be some money experts out there who want to reach out and give advice to the growing millions buried in growing debt.
