November 8th, 2007
There’s a golden fleece in the podcasting world which has been eluding pretty much everyone : monetising the vast majority of shows which have smaller audiences and less focused niche.
If your show is pulling half a million media requests/downloads or more a month, securing some sponsorship or advertising is pretty straightforward. Those numbers are a [...]
October 8th, 2007
One of the strengths of podcasts is the control the audience has over where and when they consume the content they are interested in. Tapping into this, traditional radio has been repurposing existing content into podcast format - the BBC in the UK being a prime example. But there is a huge amount of streaming [...]
August 13th, 2007
One island, one geek, and just five of their cannot live without geek items. Paul Parkinson turns up at the island’s customs office with an unusual request: to trade his choice of website for an additional gadget. Will he manage to persuade our customs officer to approve his request?Main Site www.desertislandgeek.com
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July 30th, 2007
Location: Costa, Maidenhead, UK [map]
Time: 1345
Day: Saturday
Date: 16 June 2007
Length: 1 minute 43 seconds
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July 23rd, 2007
With the aim to produce some saleable originals, it’s tough these days to decide whether a drawing ends up on a sheet of acid free cartridge paper, or in my Moleskine sketchbook. As it’s turning out, the criteria for the sketchbook inclusion is that the underlying concept has a strong personal resonance, or current relevance. [...]
July 1st, 2007
There is no doubt that affiliation with the right network can add some fuel to your audience building fire. But how many networks enable you to genuinely reach that currently untapped resource of new audience who are not already inside the Podosphere bubble? Reaching outside that bubble is tough, it takes money, serious money to [...]
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 24th, 2007
Koopa gets in the UK charts at No 21, with the help of UK podcasters
Martin “Green Dragon” Devaughn hears about himself at Glastonbury
The Zoom H4 and soundscapes
Getting told off by the self-appointed Freecycle citizen police (Freecycle Gems)
Music from Koopa and Graham Holland Sourced from the Podsafe Music Network
Show length: 34 minutes [ [...]
June 21st, 2007
Facebook’s recent growth is certainly impressive - are there any interweb users out there who have not had several invitations to join? My gut-level dislike for Facebook stems not from concerns of a large bubble which may burst, but from a large bubble with deliberately increasing wall thickness.
There is one element to Facebook that makes [...]
June 11th, 2007
I was thoroughly satisfied with this drawing. So during a conversation with jEN about it, drawing in general, and writing, I seem to remember uttering words along the lines of: “Hey, we should collaborate. You should write a bunch of poems about foxes, I can illustrate them.”
A couple of hours later - and to [...]
