Tag: journalist
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I’m a Guest on Bicyclemark’s Citizen Reporter Podcast
Long term listeners of the podcast, and podcasting in general will know the name Bicyclemark – a journalist and activist and one of the early podcasters, and indeed one of us rare breed of first wavers that kept going! He’s been a listener and welcome guest on my podcast as well as his many times…
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This Land Is Mine
I’ve been avoiding talking about Gaza not because I don’t care, it’s not even compassion fatigue, it’s more same shit, different genocide. I’ve been against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs for decades, but it does seem rather intractable, since as this wonderful video from Nina Paley points out, the land has been killed…
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Interviewed in MIT’s Technology Review about mashups & Girl Talk
This article in Technology Review includes a interview with me – it sprang out of the anti-Girl Talk post I made on Radio Clash where I posted examples that were far better that don’t get Pitchfork’s tongue up their arse (bitter? me? why yes when it’s so meh!). It also has interviews with several other…
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Thou Shalt Not Think Having A Blog Makes You A Journalist
New version of Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip’s Thou Shalt Always Kill – no not a remix, a new version via De La Soul’s Posdnous : A brilliant new version – love the Kid Carpet reference, the Facebook and YouTube snarks and the styles bit. Out in January apparently!
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Andrew Keen RSA lecture
I went to a lecture and discussion called ‘The Digital Seduction’ at Royal Society of Arts last night. Speaking was Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ and Tim Montgomery, editor of ConservativeHome.com (I am SO not linking that), and humorously chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive. There’s been a lot of…
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PodcastCon 2006 UK debrief
Wow…it’s 7pm Sunday and I’m still feeling the aftershock of the PodCastCon 2006! Overall I had fun but had mixed feelings about the conferences themselves – more fun, interesting interactions and conversations was had out of them than in, sadly. I arrived at 12pm – with jetlag from San Francisco flying in at 8:30am the…