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To UGC or not to UGC – that is the confusion

To UGC or not to UGC – that is the confusion

Back in April when PodShow re-branded to MEVIO, there was a a fair bit of spitting over the CEO’s comments that the company had “…never believed in user-generated content as a business, or even as a sustainable entertainment offering“. This created all manner of waves amongst podcast producers. Here is my personal take on why [...]

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Minor Technicality 36 – All gone purple

Minor Technicality 36 – All gone purple

It’s Minor Technicality 36 – Happy New Spring! This episode looks at the changes in PodShow over the past week, Alternative Kitchen Garden and growing vegetables, TableRappers signed to PodShow Press, rediscovering live music a bit quieter, and the free trial at eMusic.com/minortechnicality Promos from Hall of Mirrors and Made in the UK Tracks from [...]

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Embed Mevio PMN music player

Embed Mevio PMN music player

This plugin makes it easy to embed mevio.com Music Player widgets into your WordPress blog posts.
This is version 1.1 release. Currently it has only been tested on Wordpress 2.5, please report any issues with any other versions. This should still work without a problem on WP 2.3.3+.

DOWNLOAD
Current release: version 1.1 Download MevioPMN_1.1.zip (9Kb)
INSTALLATION
- Extract MevioPMN_1.1.zip [...]

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BTPodShow gets a facelift

BTPodShow gets a facelift

On its journey to the quietly heralded version 3, BTPodShow.com and PodShow.com last night had a very strategic spruce-up with a new interface.
UPDATE: Adam Curry refers to this as less a facelift than a shot of botox! 

This interim change refocused the site around primary promotion of video content, which is – despite the understandable resistance [...]

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Mouth, here’s some money

Mouth, here’s some money

Familiarity most certainly breeds complacency, so in this post I am partially putting things to rights regarding a very familiar place.
I pop into Tea&Podcasts a few times a week to see what’s going on. It’s an open forum for podcast and independent producers, their audiences, or anyone interested in podcasting, which has existed since the [...]

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Sickness guilt

Sickness guilt

Come on, admit it, we have all taken the odd ’sickie’ here and there when we were not really ill. Now I can understand feeling guilt over that, but why should I currently feel guilty about being knocked completely flat by the flu since last Sunday evening?
I was forced to miss on some important work [...]

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links for 2007-12-21

links for 2007-12-21

Design View / Andy Rutledge – Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions
(tags: layout webdesign design usability ui inspiration)

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Taming Lists
(tags: css lists tutorial html reference)

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links for 2007-12-10

links for 2007-12-10

cockney history, tower hamlets, east end of london, Charles Coborn, music hall, Bow, Mile End, Victorian
(tags: edwardian crime criminals gangs)

fu manchu
(tags: crime research edwardian)

east end of london, bessarabians, krays, whitechapel, jack the ripper, london vacation, tower of london, tower bridge
(tags: edwardian crime gangs gangland)

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links for 2007-12-03

links for 2007-12-03

romicozone.com | Get Targeted
(tags: affiliate marketing seo tips keywords research)

romicozone.com | Get Targeted » Blog Archive » How To Find Keywords That Sells
(tags: affiliate research keywords)

Color + Design Blog / The Colors in Your Dreams: What Do They Mean? by COLOURlovers
(tags: colour inspiration)

Farlow Studios – the 32 – How To Draw: The Female Proportion
(tags: drawing [...]

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TableRappers teaser promo released

TableRappers teaser promo released

This is the first of several planned audio teasers, which includes the main TableRappers theme tune in the background. Grab some headphones, turn up the volume, and give it 52 seconds of your day:
TableRappers_teaser1_audio_52sec.mp3

Please spread the word
If you play the promo in your podcast, on your website, or just plain help out by letting the [...]

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