Shel's on his own in Toronto; Google Wave and Twitter List reminders; Dan York's report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: Novell introduces Pulse with Google Wave integration, the move from stickiness to spreadability, more on Twitter lists, Second Life takes enterprise software into beta; listener comments; and more.
The podcast is ready to run. It's full of interesting online antics as usual. If there is a link or a name you missed in the podcast, you can always check back here where we have all the links. First up I had a chat with Nick Wadham-Smith is the deputy director of Counterpoint , the think tank of the British Council. They've been working on fresh methods of communication since 1934. Some of the latest...
FIR Listener Wave is up and running; an FIR Listener Twitter list is in the works; vote for us on Podcast Alley; Michael Netzley's Asia report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: bridging the gap between corporate culture and the Web 2.0 society, what a P2P company looks like, newspapers need to measure multimedia relationship, a deep dive into the spread of inaccurate information; music from...
The BBC has a new blog sign-in called BBC iD. If you add a comment from now on you'll be prompted to upgrade your account(s). You only have to do it once and it should be quick. One note of caution though: if you've got multiple BBC accounts, you'll only be able to upgrade one of them to BBC iD using your preferred username and email address. If you have any questions or need a hand, you can get help...
This is the first of a two-part Business English Pod series on idioms related to money. It’s difficult to imagine business without money. After all, making money is the main goal of many businesses. Profits often determine a company’s success. And companies must spend money, and budget carefully, to reach their business goals. [...]
The Jaycast, The show that went trick or treating but forgot a costume! It’s Halloween at the Jaycast House and Jay and Mr Downtrodden are hosting a Halloween Night Party. One problem… No one has tur
The final part of this journey down bootleg history lane is probably the biggest project, covering all tracks from Blur’s legendary Parklife album, A-sides and B-sides in 2 CD set to honour it’s 10 year anniversary of release. Conceived by McSleazy and helped out by RadioQuita then from Strangely Familiar and created as with London [...]
Episode 500 grows ever closer; interested in a Friends of FIR Google Wave experiment'; Dan York's report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: Edelman blasted for reverse-mentoring initiative, IT firm claims Twitter costs UK billions in productivity losses, Pew releases new Twitter stats, Google launches Social Search; listener comments; the music; and more.
Those who are looking for the perfect Halloween soundtrack can’t go far wrong than my dark mix from last year (if I say so myself) – loads of creepy disco noir, dark electro, Carpenter soundtrack classics and horror film samples!
Hello there, If you are sitting comfortably, the podcast is ready to begin for this week. If we mentioned a site that you would like to know more about, this is the place to find those links. For openers we have a chat with Kate Arkless Grey, the tireless voice of the BBC World Service project Save Our Sounds . While away in Canada, she very kindly took a moment to tell us more about the audio ecology...
The server is dragging more than Danny LA Rue in a 24-hour paint-watching marathon, so the big zip files (London Booted, I Created a Monster) are down temporarily, I’ll try and rehost on Mediafire or something. Not sure they are causing that, but taking them down just in case.
Those of you that remember Bride of Monster Mash and the County Sound track DJNoNo did, well The Count Rides Again, and this time he’s moved to Jamaica and is Count MC wid some dancehall riddim in ‘Batty Dub’ (with Ftatateeta and the Bats). Not heard the rest of the Mashed and Slashed EP yet, but [...]