Pods & Blogs

  1. Podcast Notes: Congo, Loudness Wars and Throwing Yourself at Men

    • Chris Vallance
    • 29 Jan 08, 01:39 PM

    Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen.
    If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured:

    As an added treat the video below is by Turn Me Up and very clearly illustrates their side of the "Loudness War".

    If you have a suggestion for next week's programme please email podsandblogs [at] bbc.co.uk

    You can suscribe to the podcast via iTunes: MyYahoo: Googlereader It's always available in itunes first thing in Tuesday morning. Ideal for the Web2.0 commuter.

    NB We hate the fact that our podcasts are only available for 7-days - but those are the rules - so please download early for your later listening pleasure.









  1. Podcast Notes: Lost laptops, e-victims, Ron Paul and posthumous blog posts

    • Chris Vallance
    • 22 Jan 08, 06:15 PM

    tinyimages.jpgRight click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen.
    If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured:

    UPDATE: A couple of you have emailed to tell me off for not posting the link to the site that visualizes every noun in the English Language - well here it is - there's a pick too - sorry!

    You can suscribe to the podcast via iTunes: MyYahoo: Googlereader It's always available in itunes first thing in Tuesday morning. Ideal for the Web2.0 commuter.









  1. An interview with Global Voices

    • Chris Vallance
    • 21 Jan 08, 02:36 PM

    We'll feature an interview with Solana Larsen of Global Voices on Pods and Blogs tonight. We've been luck to feature many Global Voices contributors on the segment in the past. I also shot some web-cam video of the interview which I've posted below. It's very low res and in mp4 format so it's light enough to download pretty much wherever you are, and can be viewed on your iPod.

    Video thumbnail. Click to play

  1. Podcast Notes: Polls, Google and Quirky Stories

    • Chris Vallance
    • 15 Jan 08, 02:27 PM

    Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen.
    If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured:

    You can suscribe to the podcast via iTunes: MyYahoo: Googlereader It's always available in itunes first thing in Tuesday morning. Ideal for the Web2.0 commuter.









  1. Getting Naked..

    • Chris Vallance
    • 11 Jan 08, 06:41 PM

    I'm going to be on the Naked Scientist podcast (hosted by Up All Night's very own Dr Chris Smith) spending 5 mins or so talking about technology - it's now a regular(ish) monthly thing. If you are in the Cambridge area you can hear it on BBC Radio Cambridge on Sunday, otherwise you can download the show as a podcast.

    BTW This week's very belated podcast of Pods and Blogs is available here. It's shorter than usual because of the US Nomination race and as it was orginally broadcast 0230 08/01/08 some of the content is dated.

  1. Bill Gates to Retire: No Carriage Clock

    • Chris Vallance
    • 8 Jan 08, 08:28 PM

    What do you give the man who has everything for a retirement present? Well perhaps a chance to indulge himself making a fun video speculating about his last day at the office isn't a bad suggestion. Bono, Clooney Hillary, Obama, Gore and a bunch of Microsoft execs make it into the retirement video parody Gates played at CES, the result is better than you might expect.

    Prepare for n remixes of this online, where n is a large random number.

  1. Marsden Fire - a dispatcher's view

    • Chris Vallance
    • 3 Jan 08, 05:04 PM

    I'm a subscriber to Nee Naw a London Ambulance dispatcher's blog: it's highly recommended reading. His perspective on the fire at the Royal Marsden Hospital is fascinating:

    The response of callers was an interesting insight into human nature. I must admit I quite liked having a ‘proper’ answer to the ‘why isn’t the ambulance here NOW?’ type questions. Terribly sorry, but we’re having difficulty finding someone to deal with your bellyache because there’s a hospital full of critically ill cancer patients on fire and we’re out SAVING LIVES like we’re meant to. Not everyone knew about the fire, and some people were incredibly apologetic. One woman, a perpetually drunk regular caller, seemed absolutely mortified when I told her, and was silenced for the first time in her entire life. Others were understanding and offered to make their own way to free up ambulances for the fire. Others, on the other hand, made me sick to the core with their selfishness. “I don’t care about the fire, what about me? You have to get here NOW.”

    Read the whole thing.

  1. Podcast Notes: Past, Present and Future

    • Chris Vallance
    • 2 Jan 08, 11:41 AM

    Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen.
    If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured:

    You can suscribe to the podcast via iTunes: MyYahoo: Googlereader It's always available in itunes first thing in Tuesday morning. Ideal for the Web2.0 commuter.









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