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| I'm moving!!! |
[Oct. 10th, 2005|09:05 am] |
I'm moving my journal to Blogger as it's a bit more podcast friendly.
My old mate Adrian Pegg has been kind enough to do a lot of work for me in setting up the page, cheers mate! - Please redirect to:
http://podcastpaul.blogspot.com
I'll be divering my homepage there too... http://www.podcastpaul.com in the course of the next week or so.
phew... |
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| Can you help? |
[Oct. 9th, 2005|11:18 am] |
Hi there, I'm looking for weird news stories, mp3 feedback, and any tech stuff of interest for non- geeks like myself so I can understand 'em.
Can you help? Mail me please, if you can - paul ( at } podcastpaul {dot] c o m
Cheers!
Paul |
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[Oct. 1st, 2005|02:06 pm] |
Just claiming my Odeo channel - let's hope it works eh?!
It's very easy to use Odeo, just click the link below.
My Odeo Channel (odeo/61bbe3a4b64727c4) |
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| I love dear old England |
[Sep. 29th, 2005|11:15 pm] |
I have just watched the first part of a stunning adaptation of Elizabeth I, featuring my favourite actress; Helen Mirren.
I have to say that I am passionate about England. I am fearful of an integrated Europe and stand firmly against the idealistic federal state.
I am passionate about our Monarchy and am tired of the same old arguments that I hear that are often poorly constructed, and ignorant of why we have a monarch in any event. That's not a post, it's a lecture. It's our fabric and foundation of our great unwritten constitution that we have a soveriegn, trust me.
Britain is a place that enjoys cultural diversity, but we have, to my mind become far too liberal. I cannot understand why we tolerate freedom of speech that is really incitement to racial hatred. Here I'm talking about fundamental muslims.
England has stood on its own with a rich cultural monarchy, and, while Britons should be rightly proud of appearing to be a country that welcomes all - we must never erode our history and heritage.
It's very easy to suggest that we need to change, but when a system has been in place for a thousand years and copied throughout the world, is it right to bring in change overnight to satisfy the discontented?
It saddens me to see the influence of European Legislation, but, noting the dissatisfaction throughout the European Union of the majority, I'm glad that we here in the UK have a 'dualist' approach to Europe. Essentially, we allow Europe to influence our laws but retain the ability to remove ourselves from the dominance of EU legislation. There's a massive struggle between Europe insisting that is has supremacy and two major member states; the UK and Germany retaining the right to remove themselves.
I'll have to stop posting at this stage as I'll bore you reading this. I do want to firmly stand on the side of a country I love and stand an be counted.
I remember feeling touched at seeing the US flag throughout Indiana and Kentucky, and seeing folks stand to sing their nationall anthem with real verve and passion. I wish beyond wish that we had that here. |
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| 7 mins and 28 seconds of fame on the BBC |
[Sep. 27th, 2005|10:56 am] |
I was gobsmacked to hear my ful length podcast from podlawyer on National talk radio BBC5 last night. Wow! The podcast can be listened to again on the BBC 'listen again' service for 7 days before disappearing into the ether.
Now, I am always wanting to improve my set up. I also want to invest in a Mac Mini when I can afford it. I'd also very much ike a touch pc screen and an even better mixer than the one I have at the moment. Is that possible? I bet it is..
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[Sep. 26th, 2005|10:24 pm] |
I'm sitting listening to my laptop - Rowley from Darkcompass.com is on the train at 5.32am again - bless him. Weird t think I've been listening to Rowley for nearly a year.
I'm working from home tomorrow, that doesn't mean I'm dossing around, not at all..I'm acually exceptionally busy and have a really heavey workload on.
I have recorded a BROADCAST this lunchtime - no, i haven't misspelt that - I was asked bt BBC Radio5 National Talk Radio to record a slot 'for about 10 minutes' My guess is that they'll play 20 seconds or so from it, possibly, if they don't have anything better.
It was ever so odd to sit and do a show with 'dry' talk - no music, no backdrop, no sweepers, bumpers, fillers... It felt very monotone and I wasn't altogether comfortable doing that. I feel so comfortable now understanding the 'ingredients' to a podcast and the general feel and tempo.
You can check out the slot I did in a show later - probably tomorrow.
See you soon.
Paul |
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| busy.. |
[Sep. 23rd, 2005|12:17 pm] |
..incredibly busy so haven't updated the journal anything like I wanted to.
I'll be doing a podcast or two over the coming day(s) so keep your eyes and ears open...
;-)
I've just recovered from podcastson now by the way, I wouldn't have done a thing differently and enjoyed absolutely everything about the whole event. How on earth can we top that next year?! |
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| Podcastpaul podcast77 - Podcastcon UK the morning after |
[Sep. 18th, 2005|04:47 pm] |
Get the show at this link: PodcastconUK - the morning after, Download from this link here
mail to: paul@podcastpaul.com
Skype: podcastpaul
Just a few of the 130 or so folk attending the conference.
Pretty good eh?!
It’s the day after the conference and I am sitting on the train from London back to Birmingham.
Sitting opposite me is Phil Coyne ( www.bitjobs.net ). Phil and I did a joint podcast from the hotel this morning – check it out at podcast no. 77.
Well, what can I say? It’s very hard t put into words how I feel this morning; exuberant, buzzing, relieved, tired.
It’s ever so odd – everyone was just how I expected them to be. I’d met Phil and Richard Vobes before, apart from that, I’d just spoken to everyone else.
I can honestly say that yesterday was so superb it was….moving. It really was the realisation of a dream come true.
It’s just impossible to tell you the highlights of the day, but I can tell you some of the things that will stay with me: Milverton Wallace, a superb, articulate and gently spoken man talked about kids who wouldn’t learn being enthused by the trend of the day. Back in 1992, he put on classes to teach children about the internet. The classroom was full and a line ran from the door right along the corridor.
Kids who stubbornly would not enter the classroom were happy to hang around the street corners and listen to a geography lesson with the iconic white headphones – the educationalists idea of buying into and using the trend of the day.
Neil was a fabulous MC, Jen and Phil chaperoned at the door and folks generally had a wonderful time.
I have to say something about the folks who supported the event, not because I have to say something, because I don’t. Be* were exceptional. Nothing less. A brand new company with a phenomenal product backed us – I am so excited by that endorsement. Dana gave a cracking very short talk and folk walked away from the conference with an amazing deal – 24 meg broadband for £20 for life. Blimey! Three lucky so and so’s won Broadband for a year. I got a free t-shirt and a flash drive…and a book on podcasting from O’Reilly that looks exceptional. I’ll be reading that with some fervour later. On the subject of O’Reilly, I have to say that the wonderful Josette is….wonderful, such a bubbly effervescent lady who really bought into the idea of the conference.
Every single person who spoke brought something to the table – I was amazed at how good everyone was, and how generous they were to come to the table and speak
Mark from The Tartan Podcast gave a wonderful talk on music and was exceptionally received.
Chris Kimber gave a real endorsement for podcasters from the BBC – some audio difficulties on the presentation didn’t phase him.
Richard Vobes – www.vobes.com and Chris Skinner – www.listentothestars.co.uk gave two excellent live shows – both incredibly different in content and style.
Neville Hobson – www.forimmediaterelease.com gave a great insight into business, and Chris Ritke www.49media.com and www.outink.com gave a good insight into his very useful website and development tool.
James Cridland kept his cool to some pretty tough questions. On e chap mentioned that Virgin just ‘didn’t get it’ … I actually tend to disagree – they do get it, or at least 1.2 million folk who listen to their radio station do. I’d be happy with that sort of audience. James’ cool head and good nature seemed to be very well received too.
Adrian Pegg and Alex Bellinger were stalwarts – they were both up and down sorting guests, dealing with issues that arose – stage managing etc etc. Oh, and my mate – Martin Hunt, my oldest buddy since school days did a cracking job of media presentation. You did us proud Martin.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Neil, Alex, Adrian, you are all top blokes. The work that went into that event was mainly down to you all – and on the day too. The whole thing went so smoothly – but Aex, Adrian and Neil were working themselves to a frazzle to ensure it went that way. Sorry boys, I really should have done more with hindsight – I promise I will next time eh?!
Thanks to Berners too – great friendly staff, amazing – and I mean AMAZING food and a brilliant place to host the conference too.
Now, it sounds corny this last bit, but the folks who really made it were the folks who traveled in and were the conference. I really hate singling people out here, but it was great to sit and chat with Geoff (Stupod) John Buckley (Dissident Vox), Phil Cambell (Rewind / Clan Life), my old mate Colin ( Colskee) and Simon Toon (slam Idol Podcast). I tried to speak to everyone because I wanted to hug everybody and say “yay!!! This is ace, cheers mate!” Obviously I couldn’t and didn’t do that!
OK, I am now sitting on fairly deserted Birmingham New Street Patform. Phil has gone to get the bus back home, I’m waiting for a train back home too – it’s close on 3pam nd I’m really looking forward to getting home to see everyone. I’ve missed ‘em. By the time I blog this I’ll have been home for some time.
It certainly has been one big adventure. I’m already looking forward to the next one…. |
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| Milverton Wallace |
[Sep. 17th, 2005|12:11 pm] |
A very articulate speaker. Milverton is chatting about education.
Milverton made the briliant point of the fact that great looking classrooms filled with pc's and great decoration doesn't get away from the model of the fact that it's still a classroom... kids can hang around the street corners with the iconic white wires listening to a maths lesson.
Back in 1992 Milverton was teaching the internet and the kids packed the class out - kids are smart and can see the future..
Teaching English as a second language is a great idea for podcasting - a real solution that can be utilised out of hours.
Trying to get teachers to adapt is problematic - but dealing with the culture that is mp3 players and ipods is something the kids will buy into.
apparently a multinational saved 30% on CD burning and distribution costs by entering into podcasting - and ease and speed of distribution too.
One large scale expirement - students were given an ipod - in Jan or Feb a review was given: results, comments and responses to lectures were seen as well as recording and distributing the podcasts. Whole learning environments were being created and the students flourished - Learning was accelerated too. |
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