Special Mitch Joel book offer; Tac Anderson interview on Friday; Twitter list update; more listener predictions; Dan York's report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: calling on your Facebook community to validate your credentials in a job aplication, social media is influencing business decisions; David Phillips reports; listener comments; the music; and more.
Some of you will know I’ve just come back from a 2 week trip to Ethiopia and South Africa – certainly the cold wet weather has been a shock now I’m back in England. While I was there I visited Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Lake Tana & the island monasteries by boat, the mouth of [...]
Something I’ve been privileged to hear bits from and is sounding great is the remixes of The Crackdown Project where Billie Ray Martin takes and reshapes several of Cabaret Voltaire’s songs, namely Crackdown and Just Fascination – but now joined by names familiar to the readers and listeners of Radio Clash: Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, [...]
Hi there. Here's our collection of links and notes for the latest edition of Pods and Blogs. The podcast is ready to listen or download as you wish. If there is a detail you would like to chase up from this week's episode, hopefully we can help you out here. A hot new 3D environment has seen it's beta launch and will soon be open to all. Our friend from Second Life, Eddi Haskell wrote to let us know...
Calling All Shipping – MV Soundhog is broadcasting on all frequencies for possibly the last time with Radio Soundhog 7 (but then again Ben Hayes like his mate Frenchbloke always says ‘never again’ then pops up on the starboard bow when you least expect it). It’s a wonderful and in some parts jaw-dropping hour-long mix, if [...]
At 44 no less, from a heart attack in Charing Cross Hospital. Although many might wonder ‘who?’ or scoff now, he was the first signed UK rapper, and also produced and was A&R for the early UK rap scene, even supported Public Enemy, Cookie Crew and loads of others, had several hits in the 80’s, and [...]
Steve Rubel interview is up; Michael Netzley's report; Media Monitoring Minute; more insights from listeners on our next 500 episodes; News That Fits: PR agency challenges client's bad press with Google adwords, is your company ready and able to listen'; listener comments; music from The Plastic Pals; and more.
Telesales? On a Sunday morning? Surely it can’t be legal – at least it shouldn’t be. A couple of years ago we stayed in a Radisson in Malta and in exchange for free food vouchers we were given “the tour” of the thoroughly splendid complex and a brief sale pitch regarding time-shares. We were also given [...]
Checking my email after Africa and this note from Skyve Reuter, the Belgian dj and producer dropped in the inbox: Hi blog friends, I just released a free bootleg album called ‘Bootbox’, including 13 mashups of banging party tunes and two dj-friendly edits of tracks by Roy Orbison and MGMT. Several tracks were already picked up by [...]
In this episode of Email Tune-up we’re looking at an email from Jimmy, who is the training officer for his company. Jimmy wants to notify the various department heads of an upcoming seminar their staff will be attending. So it’s an internal email, which usually means it’s a bit more informal than something being [...]
The Jaycast, The show that is so vain it probably thinks the song is about it! It’s our 4th birthday here at the Jaycast and Jay is worried because he has forgotten to potty train the show, yes that’
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I [...]
I never realised it was so straightforward. Pasta, I mean. Specifically, making one’s own fresh pasta at home. Since discovering some labour-saving secrets, I have been going about it with gusto. Jen introduced me to pasta making a few months ago. Her creations were delicious but took an age, kneading the dough and letting it stand [...]
Steve Rubel interview set for Friday; Edelman launches TweetLevel while TwendZ Pro is due from Waggener Edstrom; Dan York's report; Media Monitoring Minute; listener views of what FIR will be reporting in the next 500 episodes, with commentary from Neville and Shel; listener comments; music from Aloud; and more.