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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
