December 17th, 2008
The Stage, the print and online magazine covering every aspect of the arts and entertainment industry, chose to highlight Table Rappers – Persistent Spirit within their Turn off the TV special: Pick of the podcasts article.
Ewan Spence, podcaster extraordinaire and producer/presenter of – amongst others – the annual Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (sponsored for the past [...]
November 14th, 2007
I have never been one for the endless stream of “sites that show me sites” – you know, BoingBoing, Digg, etc. But over the past week or two I have been warming considerably to Stumbleupon.
The internet can be the biggest time-waster man has ever conceived. This can be a major problem for someone like me [...]
September 15th, 2007
One of the biggest blocks to creative writing is the word processor. “Hang on! Surely you aren’t suggesting we go back to the days of quill and parchment?” I hear you cry. No, not quite, but you’re along the right lines.
Writing is re-writing. 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. And I suspect there are more along similar [...]
September 13th, 2007
I’m doing more and more writing these days. It’s not exactly daily yet, but it’s getting much closer and the notion of – after a big bunch of months – writing an entire novel is increasingly realistic. So, I’ve created another main category on the right, to accommodate the inevitable posts about my experiences.
These main [...]
June 24th, 2007
FishDog, AngelSpoon, and Kirk are three characters which have been with me for a few months now. They grew organically out of some random text insertions after becoming bored with sensible content for my Skype mood message (a status message visible alongside my Skype name in contacts’ Skype windows).
When Twitter came along, it seemed an [...]
June 19th, 2007
Since getting my hands on the Zoom H4 recording device, I’ve been experimenting with recording the various sounds around me day-to-day. Ambient soundscapes, I suppose you might call them.
The initial idea was to use them as additional elements to a podcast. For example: I may discuss last night’s trip to Ikea, and so I would [...]
April 29th, 2007
It’s almost the end of an arduous and stressful April 2007, and another MT spits its way into your ears. To find out about this April, you have to tune in to Short and Fuzzy.
For the rest you’ll get: No banjo – it’s coming, honest (thank you Conrad!); Music shops and teen bands; Growing [...]
April 29th, 2007
Still building our way to BritCaster v3.0, the latest set of usability tweaks improve the layout of the front page ‘latest episodes’ list, and offer the site visitor the chance to sample every episode right there and then in the browser – thanks to the delectably simple Wimpy Button player.
Next up will be a full [...]
April 9th, 2007
More on my current, and likely fleeting, Twitter obsession. You can now get immediate notification of any new UK podcasts published to BritCaster through Twitter!
Each new episode is posted to a ‘tweet’ with the show name, episode name and the episode’s permalink – which will either be a direct link to the media file, or [...]
April 5th, 2007
I simply could not get my head around twitter. Then suddenly, it’s usefulness came to me. On Skype I use the mood message to inform anyone interested of what I’m up to and what the likelihood is that I’ll be reachable. Of course, not everyone I know or who wants to reach me, is on [...]
