When web services collide

I’ve been using Feedburner for a while, since March 2005 in fact. Yesterday I started noticing that my host had started blocking any IP addresses that Feedburner uses to poll the XML feeds at certain points each day (when one is updated, for example).
This leaves me with a bit of a dilemma. I now have [...]

PodFest is Steaming Ahead

About a month ago I announced that I wanted to organise a PodcastCon UK type event in a part of the country that hadn’t really got a prominent podcasting scene. Mainly because I was frustrated that this years PodcastCon wasn’t going to be put on until at least October, meaning there was nothing podcast related [...]

Stand Still While I Alienate You

Over at Britcaster a thread popped up concerning the latest Britpack podcast; a collective effort when a number of British podcasters all record a segment and then send it over to a producer who mashes it all together.
I noticed a comment from a relative newcomer to the community that really got me thinking; does talking [...]

Wikipedia Nonsense

Good friend and former workmate Phill Corbett sent me an email this morning about a Wikipedia article he’d started about me back in July; it’s up for deletion. Now this isn’t entirely surprising if you’re familiar with the people that seem to spend their whole day policing that place.
Non-notable. Low google hits.Hasn’t dones anything particularly [...]

Podtrac Survey Results

I just got an email with some of the responses I got from the Podtrac survey I was running a few weeks ago. No real surprises from the responses that were given, although one thing did stand out.

I talk way too much.
Out of the 300 odd responses, at least half put things like “talks too [...]

Time to Head North?

I spent this weekend with a friend* of mine in Sheffield after having to miss out on the festivities in London.
Saturday was spent travelling, drinking tea and getting ready for an 18th birthday party in the evening. As the day went on I realised a number of things; mainly that nearly everyone you meet in [...]

You're All a Bunch of Moaning Podcasters

Well, some of you are anyway.
Believe it or not, there’s a huge amount of moaning going on in today’s podcasting world. It’s mainly within existing communities and is becoming more and more prominent as the medium grows. Now I’m not someone to talk about using an existing community to promote something I’m doing, but it [...]

Argh, another blog to waste my time on

I think I was a sucker for punishment in a previous life. Either that or I’ve finally realised I should have my own blog away from other projects. Somewhere I can rant, rave and otherwise do all the stuff I can’t at other places.
Expect to see stuff ranging from complete nonsense, to stuff that could [...]