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Thanks Jack, and welcome to the PP comments hall of fame as first commenter.

Unable to get my head immediately around the innards of the different formats, I’ve switched the link over to the Atom feed rather than the RSS 1.0 – this one defaults to full-text rather than the snippet you were experiencing.

Would love to meet up – I’ll gmail you to make arrangements.

Hey, you guys did the hard bit – glad to be of help. Just tell ALL your friends…

Aaah the power of the Perfect Path GoogleJuice is undiminished. I ride the fickle indices of Mountain View as the noble one rides the shining tiger in the night.

I…am….a…GoogleJuiceGod – or a bit of a dick, I can’t quite make up me mind.

Your very welcome Melissa – I think you’re doing a stonking job with Boris’s site, especially given that all this new blog technology’s been somewhat foisted upon you. If you need any help with anything, don’t hesitate to ask here or drop me an e-mail.

I had two girls play around with ArtRage on my TabletPC. Look what they came up with: http://www.roell.net/weblog/archiv/2004/04/10/artrage_bilder_malen_auf_dem_tabletpc.shtml

Ton, thanks – I’m really looking forward to meeting you too. My first trip to the Netherlands in 25 years!

Lloyd

Amsterdam remains the only European city in which a barman has offered me and my friend a free drink “because you are English”! Several years ago but still never fails to amaze me!

Hi Lloyd,
I was about to say you left out you and Sari being squirted on by a pink elephant … but then I realised it might be taken out of context
Great to meet you
Cheers
Piers

Thanks for that Piers, I look forward to finding google searches for “squirted pink elephant” in my referrers log.

I’m really glad we met. Do give me a shout if you’re in London and up for a coffee/fat-chew.

Aaaah, that explains it, thank you – now I think about it, he did always seem to be waiting for someone…

Nice try, but I wonder what sort of conversations he was hoping to have (not the sort we were having I’ll bet!)

this to test the new version of mt-approval

stupid yank

Drooling over a PC?? – It appears more likely it was over the cakes, granola bars, at least 3 grande lattes and frappe.

Looks like quite a lucrative afternoon for the ownership.

Tee hee, I guess I’ve been doing much the same myself ….I wish it could be Christmas everyday (as some other old glam rocker used to say).

Tim

I’m drooling

In the 1920s, the Los Angeles Times put station KHJ on-the-air. In those first days of terrestrial AM Broadcasting they were so overjoyed with this form of instaneous communications where there was “no connection between the speaker and the hearer,” that when a freak thunderstorm hit Los Angeles, they stuck a mike out the window and broadcast that. Several days later, they got a letter from Florida praising their broadcast in futuristic terms.

I thought about that last night when listening to your podcast here in Florida; I knew this was history repeating.

With every advancement in media technology, our first attempts are to try to force an old style into a new medium. We put vaudeville on motion picture film, put radio shows on television, and now we’re finding our way with podcasts acting like they’re some amalgam of radio and voicemail. There’s so much more that can be done that I’m on fire with the possibities.

First attempts are wonderful. They have a charm of innocence that is rare in a cynical world. You get it. Your suggestions (plan more, maybe script it) are good ones. It took us nearly 20 years in radio to get from KDKA announcers reading election returns and scooping the papers to an understanding of the medium by broadcasters and the public that Orson Welles could effectively use to convince us the Martians had landed at Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

Our learning curve with podcasting is going to be amazingly fast. I could hear it happening even as you spoke to me, from across the pond, “with no contemporaneous connection between speaker and hearer.”

Keep it up.

Perfect! I happened to be walking when Soho-to-Westminster came up on my ipod’s playlist. I was transported, having done your walk many times myself. Thanks, Lloyd. Looking forward to more.
–Bill Bauer from rural Maryland, USA, where buskers are very rare.

Thanks Mark, I really enjoyed your tour too. I caught it on Sunday when I’d just got back from doing my first one with pictures (Waterloo to Charing Cross) – tried to comment on your blog at the time but it went horribly wrong for some reason.

I’m still amazed by the connections you can make in the blogo/podo-sphere – yeah, cool is the word!

I’m looking forward to hearing another one from you.

Neal, thanks very much for the comment and for your suggestion.

The choice of tour location largely depends on where I happen to be – I kind of squeeze it into other things I’m doing in my already overfull life, and that usually is in central London. I like the idea of a walk by the river (& I know what you mean about that stretch way out west!) I’ll certainly bear it in mind and I’m certainly keeping it up – you should find a new one very soon.

Thanks for listening!

I think to be exact, you’d probably have to be listening to my podcast, in rewind (and walk backwards too!) but hey this sounds good enough to me.Thanks for listening and thanks for taking the time to comment.

Hi Mark, good to hear from you. It’s actually called the Swiss Re building (an insurance company). It’s built on the site of the Baltic Exchange which was bombed by the IRA in the nineties. Designed by Sir Norman Foster, some wag dubbed it the “erotic gherkin” when they saw the plans and the name got out and stuck.

This thing would be cut into a 2 minute thing on any other media, but as my brain is really slow stretching out this to 10 minutes makes me understand you.

Thank You for giving me your thoughts

Ohh and by the way I think you are right, but does that matter really ?

Fredrik, I’m glad it touched you and think I’m right, but I don’t think it does really matter – I am doing this as much for myself as I’m doing it for you. I’m also playing with how much preparation I do before I talk – too much and it’s false, too little and I ramble and lose the point, or get it all the wrong way round and get fed up with myself.

Siever/Stiever(?) Thanks – I’m just jumping in with equipment I already had lying around and it all seems a bit hit and miss at the moment. I’m going to do some experiments over the weekend. Thanks for commenting.

Lloyd–
Just listening to the opening of podwalk 4. Again, thank you. The V&A exhibition–a few years back–on Art Deco was brilliant, but not quite worth the price of admission. I went opening week and it was packed. Nice opportunity for a podwalk, no? Or, how about the Roman Exhibition at the British Museum–if it’s still on. Don’t know. Take the Family.

My real suggestion for a Sunday Podwalk is the Camden Markets–Labarynthine, vast and fascinating. All the food stalls and shops. Sunday Lunch at the Lock Pub–get there early. On a chill spring day there is nothing finer.

Anyway–keep up the great work. You’ll be holding up a gloved hand and leading tours of Pod Walking visitors to London as a side job.
By the way, check out Adam Curry’s Link to today’s article in USA Today–very interesting and some ideas along what you have been thinking.

Neal

Neal, totally lost me with Jegsy Dodd – from googling I guess it was a bit after my time (the mid eighties went in a bit of a blur…)

As for Sloane Rangers – they’re still around and I’m sure they’re still horny, but I’m not the “bit of rough” I used to be and I haven’t made a few million yet either so they’re not interested in me any more.

Great suggestions for locations – I like the market vibe – you’ve got to go where there are people for this stuff – and the museums are cool too – I’ll check out what exhibitions are on. Another idea I have is to go out with my friend Karen, who is a real live London tour guide and record a conversation with her as we walk along.

I was perversely glad to see in the USA Today piece that they seemed to be talking about corporate applications “across the firewall” as it were. I’m thinking more for internal audiences, as you know and I’d actually decided on my way home to pitch it over the phone tomorrow to a client I have for whom it would be perfect.

Thanks again for the support.

PS I just looked further than your blog to your main site and saw where you’re living. gobsmacked…dunno why, but I kind of imagined east coast…totally cool!

Great ideas, Piers.

I spoke to Karen about a tour yesterday – she does Jack the Ripper, but doesn’t enjoy it very much (wonder why? girls huh!) We’re going to hook up and do it soon.

An architect would be nice – giving a professional opinion on what we can see as a foil for my amateur ramblings (or vice versa)

The thing with these conversations is going to be making sure we record what both of us are saying – difficult enough sometimes in a room where people have little space to move about, let alone out in the street (I might have to find an architect that I don’t mind cuddling up to).

London Eye would be cool too, if I could pluck up the courage to do it myself (ooooooh scary heights) and if my family would co-operate – we haven’t done it at all yet and I think I’d be a bit unpopular if I went up without them.

Gripping viewing really isn’t it? Though can’t quite believe the amount of “I see myself as more of a leader” comments that come out in the arguments…

Thanks Neal, I’m definitely going back there, there’s so much material – but with a proper camera and on a day when the wind is a little less icy.

hee hee – I really enjoyed doing something else for a change – glad it wasn’t unwelcome.

download stats are difficult. I reckon I have about 20 regular subscribers, but some of the podwalks have had downloads in the hundreds, especially after Adam linked to one and put it in his soundseeing feed.

I seem to have run out of day again, but yesterdays walk will be up soon.

Yeah, I think the problem with this is that it represents centralisation (concentration of power to link in Google’s hands) whereas we’ve got used to the web only being used for decentralisation and empowering the little guy. So I don’t think it’s ‘evil’ as much as anti-web-as-we-know-it but then so were advertisements and commercialisation ten years ago…

Just has a look at the photo set–sucking life in on the big cafe wifi mainland pipe–great stuff! Deliah, Jamie, Nigella, Gordon look out! But tsk, tsk–£4.99 Sainsbury’s polycontaintered lamb: have your fellow-country chefs not instilled in you their mantra of local, fresh, organic, individually sourced meats. . .do you know those chop’s pedigree?? ;-}
Seriously–keep it up, can’t get enough of your creative strides.

Neal

On Saturday afternoon, I often get into play around with my stuff mode and somehow by Monday I’ve completely forgotten what I was doing.

I think this was an automatic posting while I was playing with the e-mail -> flickr -> blog functionality. I just got a new phone and am trying to get to the point where I can do a moblog type post with pic and text from wherever I happen to be.

WEll spoken Lloyd.. I too have my doubts about Odeo… seem to be hopping on the bandwagon, without knowing anything about the wagon itself.

And then of course they do the typically-annoying release delay… as they put up a site, spread the buzz, and then nothing. Ah the growing pains of this great art.

Thanks guys – I ranted about it a little later in a podwalk that I just did, which should be released shortly.

I’m not entirely certain of the argument, but I think the nub of it is that the web is essentially a democratic place that can shift power to the little guys and gals – I’m becoming confident that that dynamic is a fundamental and ultimately unbreakable principle of the web and that undermining it is both dangerous to those who try and in the long term untenable, we will always find a way to work around people who want to centralize and get everyone doing things *their* way – unless they make some radical change to the way the web works – which of course is what’s so dangerous about some of the laws that are being passed around the world that effectively turn the web into television on speed, steroids and loads and loads of coffee at the behest of the Movie, Music & TV industries. Yay us – the future is ours, let’s keep creating it!

All of this seems to fly in the face of Lockergnomes post last week: RSS Marginal, Podcasting Overhyped: http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/archives/news/20050314_rss_marginal_podcasting_overhyped.phtml
Their survey parsed less people than subscribe to the DSC, so clearly the minority within the minority. I think there is going to be more development and apps as late adopters start racing to catch up. All this will drive more to RSS and podcasting as it becomes increasingly established. With the DSC paving the way and highlighting so many new upstarts we’ll all be wondering where they’ve gone–like the aggregator to beat all aggregators that got a mention on curry.com a month ago. I think Odeo and Sparks! are the first, and perhaps sacrificial, entries to this new market.

Here! Here! And don’t be smokin’ too many Camberwell Carrots, man!

Mmmmm… I gave up the Camberwell Carrot long ago when I started losing my hair – ‘cos like, Hairs are aerials man, they pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain – that’s why bald men are so uptight!

Thanks Mark, of course when you’re here you can just give me a call and ask me “where was that public toilet you walked past, again” or “I’m looking for that erotic gherkin, but I can’t find it anywhere” and I’ll put you on the right track!

I agree, the programme is intriguing. However, I would be suprised if the 14 contestants on this show are indeed 14 of the brightest entrepreneurs the UK has to offer – is it more the fact that the truly entrepreneurial among us are out earning hard dollar rather than trying to steal a chance in a puppet-show like this?.

The thing was, that I’d completely forgotten that I’d made the feed available and it didn’t occur to me that people might be looking at it for enclosures.

If you see anything dangling in future, please let me know, I might know already, but I’d rather have my shortcomings pointed out to me than I go blindly marching on thinking that all is well in my little world.

Doug – I can’t think of a podcast that I’d rather fall on the ground while listening to. I’m very happy to do endorsements on this basis if you should so require viz “It knocked me out”, “Well blow me down if IT Conversations isn’t the hot-darndest podcast on the block”, “Doug Kaye bring us another trippy IT Conversation…” etc.

Really enjoyed this podwalk Lloyd. Haven’t come across this before (until you mentioned it at the networking event), and hadn’t seen Flickr before – excellent accompaniment to the walk. Good that you’ve taken the trouble to describe the photos on Flickr too.

The only other thing I thought might add interest to the podwalk might be a link to a streetmap, to follow your journey. In the absence of that I dug out my A-Z.

As a matter of interest, what device were you recording on?

I am sadly all too interested in the pros and cons of different recording media. It’s an issue for me in recording audio interviews for research purposes – aiming for the best quality recording to make transcripts easy to produce. I use an Olympus DM-1 – it records to SmartMedia cards, and uploads v. quickly via USB to a PC in a proprietary compressed format (which then quickly converts to WAV for easy editing and sharing). The DM-1 and similar Olympus models have a small following in the qualitative research world. I’ve always resisted using minidiscs for the reason you cited – Sony’s (previously) unhelpful decision not to permit fast uploading of files via USB.

I had wondered whether people did the video equivalent of blogging, so will follow up your suggestion. It’s obviously a bit more intrusive than mumbling into a tie clip mic – more obvious that you are recording something.

Ourmedia.org looks like it could be a good thing. I’ll have a browse.

Cheers!

Thank you BM – my face is practically back to “normal”, the most annoying thing is the bits that I cannot shave – not just scabby now, but hairy too (oh I’m sorry, were you just having lunch?)

I know, I’ve only used up about 130MB ‘cos I’m so used to deleting stuff – I start to get twitchy if I get over 10% full – completely bonkers.

PS good to see your feedburner readers going up and up!

Nice headline! Do you think she’ll stick with it? Is this ushering in a new era of bod-casting? Um. . .like. . .no way. . .um. . .way. . . .This sort of thing could give our beloved medium a bad–well, worse–rap.

Brutally honest and honestly, brutal ;-} Good to see the art of minstrelsy is not dead. The real question is, what did you crop out and/or doctor with Photoshop? Was the hat really a fez?

Who did the market research for these new start-ups? Where’s the trend analysis? I find it vastly interesting that these companies (Odeo, Boku, etc) are flocking to an unknown market, then trying to justify their efforts with the PEW report (what stinks about that), without a decent survey of what’s already going on. It’s fine and dandy to try to drive a market, define it’s parameters, create a following and form a community. However, it seems that Podcasters are an hornery bunch and the grassroots nature of the movement and the independentness of it all is going to lead to a lot of turmoil and perhaps setbacks or failure. We’re all out there; we’re all vying for recognition– why not survey the podcasters and their listeners–there’s less than 5000 podcasts so it should be relatively easy at this point–on a list of topics and see where they agree and where they differ. Then the founders, the early adopters, the wanabees can all feel a sense of unity, participation, and discourse. When the pyramids form, the conglomerates take over, and the changes happen those of us on the first and ground floors will have a sense of belonging to the movement rather than being at odds in an “us” and “them” situation. The developers of these new podcasting production suites should stop trying to woo a new audience and at least get behind the first wave before they sell something which already has a damaged reputation: ie, hard to access, poor. . .ah . . .um . . ug. . .quality, full of technical qlitches and geekery. These businesses are so afraid of producing something less than quality that they are failing to impress. So let’s keep out there in their face–with the wind in our mics, traffic in the background, telephones ringing, ah-ing and um-ing and f’ing and blinding, dropping our equipment, and show em how its done!

Good walk. Hope you got some time at the Tate Modern. Didn’t exist when I was doing that stretch of Thames. I love the South Bank. Hayward is great. Used to come up from Chislehurst on my weekends to crawl over the city from Waterloo or Charing Cross. Although I like Southwark a bit more now. I’ve crossed Hugerford only to be met by thet sea of Dossers too many times for a middle-aged Yank to bear.

Yeah, that lecture at the end was really weird, it’s part of the collection, but also about the collection and about the building – I guess it’s Tate Postmodern ha ha.

I’m glad it turned out OK – I quite like it now but wasn’t at all sure what was going to happen after I’d stepped through the doors and heard someone shouting “Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…”

A surreal close to the week for you!
I think I know some of the bastard offspring of the welsh-sheep union, concieved on a moonlit night somewhere in the hills near Carmarthen; run ewe bugger ewe run. . .Our islands are full of them, too shamed to remain near the scenes of tryst. All in the name of a worthy cause. . .I myself prefer the erstwhile midnight Slone Ranger formal balls to all of this modern sheep racing. . . .

The photo, by the by, makes it look like you bathe with Lamb Chop. . . .

Obviously it is all in code. As best I can make it out: Lloyd’s house in Epsom is an Arcade. The guy with the Fat Arse ducked into the Virgin Megastore and the Satan of Bromsgrove is either in the West Mercia Nick, or is the Heart of the English Tourist Board. All that from a satellite in outer space, close enough for the girls I go with. . .a miss as near as a mile obviously not the motto Google Maps is striving for, but close is still as good in horseshoes as handgrenades. . . .

It’s one of those things: As soon as you tune in to something, then you begin to see it everywhere. Lesblogs was a saturation point, and now everything and everyone is “blog this” and “blog that. . . .” Let the force take you, Grasshopper!

I should point out that conversation over dinner also included politics, state v private education, exfoliation techniques and other approaches to facial care.

#1 seems very energy efficient to me. Glad they’re taking an eco-conscious approach to their hotel. They should have made it more obvious, though.

You’re quite right Tammy, thanks for pointing that out – I’d just have liked it clearer and to have some sort of option – I get antsy as soon as I’m aware that the tiniest freedom is being taken away! I also shouldn’t take myself so seriously – too tired for tags really means too tired to post without slipping into self-centred ranting.

Too right, mate! They must have sped up the public copy to give the appearance of normalcy. No wonder the refridgerator is empty and there is “no” mini-bar. . . .;-p

Thoughts on Podshow.com are looming large on the www (wonderful world of wheelie-bins). You may have a point about it being the nemesis of creativity and freedom for the little guy. By changing the definition of what a podcast is you change who is a podcaster and what their “art” is. Dave Winer’s Garden Model is much more how podcasting should be viewed–a wonderful place full of diversity and the occasional weed, but certainly no place for the Golden Arches, Billboards, or other garish forms of advertisement. No, what belongs in the garden are tastefully sculptured nudes. . . . with the occasional leering gnome.

Podcasting rocks. It can only be a good thing. You can listen to what you want to, when you want to. I regularly listen to a show on computer programming called dotnetrocks. It gets an incredible number of downloads (65,000 each episode). At last you can easily listen to something intelligent. It’s a great tool for education.

Thanks, once again, to the magic of podcasting I am sitting here drinking my coffee listening to my little connection to the outside world and I am instantly transported with you to the Epsom Train Station. I am here smelling coffee, as you were then. (My mind is filling in the blanks of the scents of cigarette smoke, urine and damp London air and train grease.) You’re blowin are mind with this philosophical stuff, man!

I don’t know if you were using the same microphone, but there was definately a difference in sound between London and Paris–mainly in the way traffic sounds. Could be time of day, but the sounds (beep, beep) were very Paris.

I’ll take that as a “No” then Will.

Making it free is a nice way of saying, pay for it yourself, Lloyd – no, I don’t think I’d do better that way – I’m offering a service that you don’t seem to want to pay for – that’s cool, don’t come.

i just find it a bit strange thats all, there are so many discussion fora surrounding our public services at the current time that it makes me a little aghast sometimes i wish you the best of luck with your endeavours and hope you can produce some sort of a result that could have a meaningful impact on our public services in some respect. quite how i will wait & see…
and by the way it does seem as though every bugger has an ipod on the tube hey?

An intellegent and friendly gentlement with a microphone on his lapel.

Yeah that first guy was particularly Spode-like (if a little middle-class!) I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find him selling ladies lingerie.

Tricky one – if not the inestimable Lloyd, then somewhere between David Niven and Bill Sykes – but I’d go for the first

Aw. . .shucks. . . .one does what one can. . . .In truth, I *did* send you choices. As this is how I see myself, though–it is my favorite of the bunch.

Great conversation–very thought provoking. Good commentary on social behaviour–we’re all looking for that “love” that comes to us several times a day via email, rss. sms. . . . I would so love to get sale items, etc, based on criteria I pre-approve, sent to me the minute I walk into a shop–no more paper flyers to fly all over the place, or coupons to remember–they would come to my mobile. Hey, tube announcements could be served too–above ground as you pass near the entrance, flash–delays on Northern Line, so your not stuck on tube between Borough and Bank for an hour. I only wish we Yanks would get on the ball with all of this as well. I think there will be several hurdles to jump over–namely the wired phone co.s–before Mobile Marketing could take off here, but with user selected discretion, say via a website, I think it would be fantastic.

Ah but I have absolute power, and now you just seem to be apologising for nothing!

Listening back, your point occurred to me too – this was a very UK-centred conversation, it’s easy to forget that there is one tech area (other than podcasting of course…titter) where we’re doing more innovative stuff than in the States.

Thanks Alex, I keep going to your site and thinking Oooh I must subscribe to smallbizpod and then forgetting. Your comment has prompted me to put it straight into my ipodder – thanks! Looking forward to meeting you at the Geek Dinner on 7th.

Fresh Idea–be sure to forward all royalties. . . .–this was mentioned on an article about ME: how about a podcast sent to a mobile suggesting dinner ideas on ones way home. Probably not a great hit in the vast, wasteland that is the US. But, blokes and blokesses strolling by Sainsbury, Marks and Sparks, or Tesco at teatime might hear the Bod jingle on their phone and have the Naked Podchef suggest a few menu options based on relevant produce, etc in the stalls at that moment. Not exactly a podcast, but the day has got to be around the corner. . . .

Yeah, I considered adding the sound of God laughing in the background at the end there. The trouble with breaking up ground is that (it’s tiring and) when you go around saying “Hey you got any rocky ground you want breaking up?” people often seem to say “Nope, thanks, we like our ground just the way it is” So I have to sneak in, at night, and just show them what I mean, while constantly running the risk of looking a complete dick when I foul up. Good job I like having an ego like Piglet’s balloon huh!?

Thanks for the offer, you can never have too many Tesco poly bags

Bill, I’m glad you’re still here, since the early days (January!).

I’m now subscribed to your weblog (I don’t remember seeing your link to the South Bank podwalk, do you ping Technorati?) – thanks for the reminder about In Our Time – as a result, I just enjoyed the Aeneid edition myself.

Woo hoo, great to hear from you Robert, I’m so glad I asked.

You can tell your daughter that you made that English guy laugh out loud. My daughter’s 12 and is already an accomplished eye-roller.

I’m struggling with what to say about KM – there’s so much, the question is where to start. I also feel at the moment like the most I can do with the podcast is try to understand what the podcast is and what it’s for by doing it (if that makes sense)

I have an item forming in my mind entitled “Why my podcast is not radio…and why it ain’t blogging neither” For me it has elements of each, but it’s more than both put together.

I think that the interesting thing in podcasting is that it’s showing up the same challenges I see in clients who are trying to get a grip on KM – how do we use this technological opportunity to communicate, to join people together, to work across traditional boundaries, to create new ideas and then to propagate them effectively so that they have a chance to grow into useful businesses and how do we need to change our economic thinking in order to be able to make some money out of it all?

Let me know when you get anything up online that I can look at.

I think it’s sooo exciting – unfortunately it’s not just young women who roll their eyes – but I’m undaunted, I still think it’s really cool that we can make connections like this so simply.

Thanks for listening.

Hi Lloyd – you already know that I’m a lurking listener, but I thought I’d post up as others have too. Yours was the first ever podcast I ever listened to (one of your walks), and got me into RSS feeds, iPodder.org and even Flickr, all of which I am now using myself. I now listen to almost all of your ‘walk-to-work’ podcasts (though not always the whole of each one…), usually the same evening you post them, and am subscribed to your various blogs (even the one that only you and I have ever read).

Unlike Robert, I listen to the Adam Curry side of the Curry-Winer divide; I tried a couple of Dave Winer’s podcasts but just couldn’t get all the way through them.

Having listened to various podcasts for about a month now, I am becoming less interested in those that speculate self-referentially on the future of podcasting, and more interested in those that have thoughts from a perspective very different from my own, or ones which provide content that is directly useful or stimulating to me in relation to one or more of my interests, business needs or hobbies. So I’m trying various podcasts out, sticking with others and leaving others behind.

I’ve now forgotten the question I’m responding to, so it’s time to stop writing. Please keep podcasting!

Stuart

Wow, this is cool – thanks for pointing to it, none of my automated scanning would have picked it up!

Oooh I’m so jealous!

One day I shall be a wealthy globe-trotter and able to flit from cool conference to cool conference.

Heath, I didn’t speak to everyone who was there of course but among those I did, there were some general thoughts on this and one specific point.

Generally people said they don’t have enough time to read magazines (certainly not all the way through) and they get a whole bunch of them and I guess FC doesn’t stand out like it used to.

I can only say for me that I’ve felt for a while that FC doesn’t talk to me any more (I’ve even tried subscribing to the blog, but I rarely read anything there either). I’m aware that I enjoyed it most 3 years ago when I was a wage-slave aspiring to get out and do cool stuff. Now that I’m out there (and doing it) it’s not so interesting to me – I recognize this says way more about me than about the magazine.

The one specific point that came up was the difficulty two people had had with subscribing from the UK – I don’t know exactly what this was about, but it seemed it felt complicated and difficult.

I hope that helps – thanks for asking.

Yeah, I’m missing doing it too – just been crazeee here. I think it’s time to revert to a classic podwalk as well as reviving the morning audioblogs. But for tonight it will have to be a miriad of geeky voices.

Hee hee, I’m quite pleased with the podcast actually considering the amount of background noise, but then I did last listen to it at about 0230 this morning – you provided great comedy value as always.

I’m sure you’ll be thrilled and eager to use this picture – http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyd-davis/18077148/ for promotional purposes

Nice to meet you last night, Lloyd (I was talking to Euan when you came up, microphone in hand). I’m listening to the podcast right now. Excellent…

Is this you recording away, Lloyd?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotben/18167293/in/pool-londongeekdinner0607/

If so, has anyone told you that you’re a ringer for Mackenzie Crook of The Office and Pirates of the Caribbean fame.

Does the big or small screen beckon after your Podcasting efforts?

Sorry – case of mistaken identity, assumed it was you recording your Podcast.

Can that person really be listening to his MP3 player when Scoble’s talking? Bad netiquette I’m sure…

This is very entertaining. Almost like I was there. Love the Seattle Girl who’d been punting on the Cam–obviously a very happy traveller. Good plug for the podcast/flickr combo as well. Also love the way people describe themselves.

hehe.. btw, my recording wasn’t for the beeb. it was for all of us, right

Neal, you know that that Seattle Girl is Mrs Scoble? She was an absolute scream (literally!) It was worth going just to hear what he really means when he says in his blog “Maryam’s screaming at me to stop blogging and get in the car”

ROFL!

I think we’re pretty safe in assuming that they both (in common with yours truly) like their food.

Like i said – it’s about finding the right tool for the job and being creative is the job your are using podcasting to tackle hence it is arguably more effective than text.

Efficiency and Effectiveness are diametrically opposed to the creative process. The initial creation of something–art, music, or a new form of communication–is supposed to be messy, complicated and a bit orgiastic. You have to throw yourself upon it and flail about until things start to mesh.
Text is passionless unless there is context. In a novel–even the best and most gripping–you have to wade through chapters of introduction to create the context which pulls you along. Sure the first few paragraphs of the first chapter may suck you in, but then there is all the drivel which makes up ordinary life which has to go on before you can find out ooo done it.
I think the new place for audio and video blogging is not in-place of text, but along side it. Even a 1000-word worth picture needs text, often, to put it into a context we can all understand.
Our world is a multi-media one, even before we print, record, and video. Art emulates reality. It is our personal expression of the world around us. In that, let the creativity shine. Would any one read the rants of a Speaker’s Corner bod if they were transcripted? It’s the experience which must be lived, even if its a bit messy and inefficient. Speaking of which, where has the walking, talking art instillation been lately?

Neal, are you talking about me when you say “walking talking art installation”? I want that on my gravestone!

Truth is I’ve been far too immersed in the social whirl and the utilitarian nightmare.

However, my podwalking trousers are neatly pressed and podwalking boots are brightly polished. I firmly intend to get something out tomorrow (Wednesday). Musn’t forget me cables.

Neal, I’m glad you’ve commented now, thank you. It didn’t seem so odd or bold a question at the time, but listening back, I know exactly what you mean, it seems to come out of the blue and is suddenly very intimate.

I shall work references to food in occasionally and I expect you to only comment when I do – just to see whether you are listening to every one or not!

Thanks for another dollop of encouragement, it means a lot to me.

Alex, wow, if it passes the Open University test I’m really very pleased indeed!

I agree about the level of detail. As I’m sure you know, it’s really difficult to get right, but this suggestions of some illustrations is very useful and I’ll see what I can do. I have to admit that I’ve done minimal preparation for any of these and some thinking beforehand would certainly help with this sort of thing.

Always great to get feedback – thanks.

There is audio of the debate here:

http://www.netimperative.com/2005/06/08/interactive_city/

Thanks Mike, that’s terrific.

NMK are going to publish these, the other keynotes and the panels on the ITC site. I’m very sorry to say that I missed the best part of your (very fast) presentation and didn’t record what I did hear because we were late coming back from lunch.

Geoff, clearly the student was ready and the masters appeared!

I saw oursocialworld pointed to elsewhere and I’ve already signed up – number 5 on the delegate list no less.

Looking forward to meeting you then.

Pressed Trouse, polished boots, appropriate mission–I can’t wait to listen to this one! Great photos too.

Yes, I do get a bit naughty – it just struck me that both these symbols of American wartime courage and might are represented in (what seems to me today) to be particularly camp stances – I think it says more about the way that macho stereotypes have been subverted by the gay community than about the subjects themselves!

Just for the record, I love Americans – but you always hurt the ones you love, the ones you shouldn’t hurt at all.

Hear, Hear!

In an age where the very form of Truth has been discredited by the Media we need the public to stand up and state the Truth as it seems from thier perspective. The more people inputing, the more pieces of the puzzle will fit creating viable pictures. No longer will corrupt Government or corporate entities have the power to control the direction the news takes on a given topic without some form of checks and balances via bloggers. No longer will the little fella with a brilliant mind and ideas to share waste away, unrecognized, in his cubicle on the 21st floor.

Thanks guys.

Thanks Martin, but I had to stop playing when I started to feel like God!

I wish I’d been there now. And great comments. I think the Kane piece confuses the technology with the people it serves.

Reminds me of David Weinberger’s point made at Reboot recently, comparing the NY Times home page, with loads of links but only to the NY Times; and Doc Searls’ site with hundreds of outbound links. “And they call blogs an echo chamber!”

When will people realize that Satire does not equate Prediction? They did it with ‘1984′ ‘Brave New World’ & “Farenheit 451′, Now it seems ‘EPIC 2015′ has achieved that status of Brilliance Misunderstood. The first time I watched it I saw it for the commentary on our current age that it is. How hard was that to miss?

Great comments about blogs, BTW. That paragraph is legend! For a fellow who’s been keeping his cards close to his chest, this is a Royal Flush.

At last, you big tease! The photos came through the feed yesterday. . . .

It’s a trick I learned from some Gastrocast geezer. At least my photos don’t make you drool. (Well, I suppose it depends on your taste.) Glad you enjoyed it. Luckily, the Neal’s Yard reference didn’t come to me on the day otherwise, I’d have made some embarrassingly awful joke about it.

Mwa ha! Another great tagline! “Perfect Path…strangely good listening” thanks James.

Thanks, Gia – someone who can, will. When you can, you know where I am. )

We all know, now, when Lloyd can’t be ‘arsed’ enough to do something it ain’t worth doin! ;-p You are right of course–it isn’t worth fixing the RSS, etc just for iTunes. They’ll get the message as they untangle themselves from thier eagerness–what they get for Currying favor and not listening to and asking a Winer. Probably better too many people don’t get addicted to your special brand of Britishness–your bandwidth would skyrocket. And no we’d never mistake you for a Welsh–even if you were the only one in Glandewy Brevis. ;+} Now get some rest, you hooligan–you’ve had a busy day.

Thanks for this, Lloyd. Once again, your thought are *my* thoughts (are we twins separated at birth?)…

My wish is that the ‘powers that be’ don’t allow themselves to adapt and survive. I hope that they don’t start to implode like the music industry. What they don’t truly, deeply understand is that the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth… and there really isn’t anything they can do to stop it. So they should just assimilate

I think I’m going to have to try hard not to think of these whilst going up the long tube escalators. Although making some stickers and using them to supplement the ads that line the walls on the ride may make a far more intersting update than random gum and scribbles that are usually found on them. Very funny

Gosh, stickers, I hadn’t thought of that – brilliant. I’m definitely printing one onto a t-shirt – probably wear it to the Seth Godin do on 11th (I think the ‘ample’ one will suit me best.

Glad you thought it funny, and thanks for the link.

Aha, the west coast is stirring. Don’t you believe in Saturday morning lie-ins or something?

Perhaps you should invest in a sneeze guard for your mac, like those lovely perspex jobs over the salad at Pizza Hut?

We rise with the sun here. . . Now, I see your RSS and show you mine: http://podchef.motime.com/post/469401

hehehe.. COOL!!! I like!

http://blog.podbat.com/2005/06/21.html#a121

He’s got a great looking blog. Now you’ve got to show him your RSS. . . .

I’ve left some muddy footprints on the doorstep. ;-}

So glad you stayed clear as well. What a thing for me to wake up to. I’m off to check on everyone else I know who lives or works near the blast sites.

Lloyd,
I’m happy to hear that you and your family are safe.

Lloyd,

My wife and I are loyal readers of your blog and we love your podcast. I send my condolences to everyone in London. We leave in two hours for our holiday in London (we’re American). This attack will not keep us away. Stand strong London!

Regards,
Alastair

This cheered me up no end…

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php

I just started listening to podcast15. Best wishes to you and all in London from near DC. Yes, let’s work for peace.

Lloyd, this should be put onto SoundSeeingTours.com – it is great.

Thanks guys I appreciate you stopping by.

By the time I’d posted this, the whole West End was pretty much back to normal, I think that people had just put off travelling in the rush hour today.

Sad to see tonight that a lot of people were “dealing” with the shock by getting thoroughly pissed. One guy threw up on my train home. Understandable, just sad.

As for asking directions, my mommy always said “If you’re lost, ask a policeman”

Thanks to one and all for a very interesting evening. Spookily like the Geek Dinner in terms of the mechanics but quite different in terms of the audience dynamic. Any gathering of such interesting people get’s my vote (and £20).

Cheers

Steve

A great evening and very invigorating. Sorry I wasn’t able to introduce myself to more people but there you go.

Cash permitting, I’ll be at the next one.

Blessings
Leonard

Leonard, it was good to see you there, I’m sure the presence of a priest gave lots of people food for thought, whether they spoke to you or not.

For me, the big point of what Seth was saying is that it’s about working hard to cultivate an ongoing relationship with people rather than manipulating consumers into buying stuff they don’t want. Good moral message, in my book.

What can I say – microphones scare me

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks a lot for posting the audio and the pictures.

Flemming

Wow. Lloyd, my heads swimming a bit, but I love a challenge. I have my own personal blog on blogger.com (see URL above) so I know the basics. I haven’t worked with any of the statistical counters or any sites like techonorati. However, I think I’m going to give it a try. My first avenue is to send this idea to the playwright and director and get them excited. I’ll link them to our discussion thread and this page especially, as long as you don’t mind. I’ll keep you updated and probably ask lots of questions until you start charging me

Noël, you’re very welcome, it’s a pleasure to help. And helping you actually helps me, because it puts straight in my head, just what my old pal Podchef says here: that there’s a valuable service in all of this for which large amounts of cash should be forthcoming.

Don’t you worry Neal, just listen out for a podwalk along Shaftesbury Avenue!

Don’t worry Rachel, the drinks industry has nothing to fear from me but my sobriety

Best wishes to you and to all in London.

I was deeply saddened to find that “they” had tried it on again. At least this time their technical abilities shined through and no one was majorly injured–well, until someone was shot this morning, that is. All the best to you, yours and all Londoner’s–Give’m Hell Lloyd.

Hi Lloyd – thought you’d like to know that this podcast was referred to by Adam Curry on his Daily Source Code for 19 July.

I started out with “relatively fragrant”, but that kind of implies that though more fragrant than the rest, you were still a bit pongy. I suppose “refreshingly fragrant” would have been better but then I was scared of coming over as stalker-material.

Rules for Complementing Women #69 “You can’t win, so don’t try – better to say something and arouse paranoia than say nothing at all and err…. arouse paranoia”

That is one uuuuuuugly pooch. Can’t tell if it’s walking forward, or backwards. Obviously left in the back car window for too long on a hot summer day. . . . .It, like you, must remember to stay out of the noonday sun. . . .

OI! I *don’t* have a Cat Blog!!!!!

(I’m writing this with my cat sitting on my chest with me peering around him in order to see the screen)… I hate cats. I really, honestly do. I have severe cat allergies and I think cats are twats. I hate how they walk on everything moments after being in their litter box. I hate how they scratch things up. I just hate them generally. I am a DOG person… but I don’t have the lifestyle for a dog. I found this one breed of cat that I’m not allergic to and the breed happens to be very different from other cats… he’s more like a dog in a cat’s body. He even plays ‘fetch’. Seriously… and now, damn it, I actually *like* the thing…

I’vegottostopwritingaboutthecatI’vegottostopwritingaboutthecatI’vegottostopwritingaboutthecatI’vegottostopwritingaboutthecat…

I’m totally kicking myself–as in having to pull a 52 wide out of my arse. . . .I should have set up a wiki for this wedding I just did! It would have saved sooo much time coordinating with 12 people. The tools are there and thanks to the Lloyds of the world, the news is getting about. Once I get my foot out, I hope I can help shed some light for others too.

LLoyd – great idea. Focusing on how all these tools have practical benefits, rather than the more, for want of a better word, idealogical elements of social media is definitely the way to go. Once word gets out there, I’m sure the courses will be a big hit.

One other thing … thanks to this post I’m having nightmares featuring snipers and cats.

Cheers

Alex

Glad to see you got off your RSS and posted about this. ;->
This is going to be an interesting aspect of the New Culture–the collapse of the status quo and the replacement with ??? I don’t listen to radio, so I’m not buying anything they’re selling there. I Tivo every show I watch, not only to watch what I want when I want, but also to skip the adverts. So that’s wasted advertising dollars. . . .Perhaps the end game of this all is that we can pare down our consumer society and stop buying what we don’t need on impulse, and begin to purchase what is truely useful too us, based on word of mouth report and reputation. Products will be reviewed by consumers–like they already are at Amazon–and advertising costs can be cut leading to less expensive products and more affordabilitiy all around. TV will change from it current model to a pay per content or on-demand model. If I want British programming in the US I will pay the Brit Channel for content, and so on. What get’s me now is that World channels and programming which are advert free in their country of origin are hacked to pieces to cram in ads when they hit the American Market (that and an applause track is added to everything). These will be some strange times ahead indeed.

Envy is directed at me for many reasons – this is just one, and I’ve got used to it over the years. Fact is not every man can handle the heady mix of gorgeous women and gorgeous technology, I guess I just have a knack for it

We’d better make sure you move to London, you’d have been in your element.

great podcast Lloyd. Thank you. I loved the noise of Deirdre’s shaking head

sheesh – it’s Sunday afternoon in the middle of a Bank Holiday weekend – everyone else on the internet is asleep! Have patience, all good things come to those who wait.

I do run into great people don’t I? I’ll have to see what I can do this week.

Hey, its still just past the crack of dawn here on America’s left bank. We’re barely into our first Starbucks.

Hop over and video Neville Hobson as he struggles with MT 3.2.

I need some content so I don’t have to do any work myself!

Well I replied to your comment on my blog but as you’re unlikely to check it to see, here it is..

Lloyd – glad you liked the pics. Well you kept asking about what I did outside my blog, I did think I hinted very heavily I’d rather not talk about that, but OK, you want me to dominate another time, sure I will!

It’s a mime type issue, most likely. look here at my embedded media help page.

http://www.popgoeslethal.com/wma_embed_firefox/wma_embed_main_frame.htm

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ….

That looks a bit like a rebel, understandable given the age. For some strange reason I think you do come out somehow like Bono though.

Yes, do expound on the acting career, some of us have only heard wild rumours!

*lol* I just noticed how my brains seems to be used to switching languages right now – I am just in one folder with only English feeds in it and was not ablet to ‘parse’ it properly without rereading the ausgezeichnet three times. )))

Looking forward meeting you next week.

hehe I know how you feel – when I was at school I did German, French and Latin at A-level and spent almost my entire time translating from one or the other and frequently getting very confused.

Hey! I hope your having loads of fun at the event and that it is all really informative. You will have to put all the info about the event on and I will keep up to date on everything that is going on there.

Unfortunately I couldn’t escape from the office to attend so I am counting on your excellent ability to podcast the event for me.

Lloyd, i like this photo – an improvement on the student ID look IMHO You could use it on Soflow n’all! Nice stickers too. But what’s really making me jealous is not all this flaunting of geeck chic and camaraderie, but this: where did you get that HOT pink handbag??

Congratulations!!!!

Happy Birthday Perfect Path, and many more!

But i’ve seen Loic before… i think he is morphing into you, becoming un Ros’ Beef

Happy blog-o-versary!

perhaps they wanted a window seat?

Please visit my Blog and leave me your comments about Why you Blog. Also, there’s a night out I’ve arranged which you might want to come along too!

Thanks

Hi Lloyd,
thank you for coming to Our Social World and for being so very supportive both during the day and since. Havent been able to listen to the podcaste yet, but the pictures are great. By the way the pink bag belongs to me!!

Cool, I’ve been talking about you several times today – people new to podcasting love the podchef idea.

I don’t know who is doing the audio, I’m not today as I’m typing so much but I’m sure somebody will be. I’ve also been grabbing a bit of video of every presentation. Perhaps there be links on the wiki later.

tired now. very tired.

I knew my ears were ringing all day yesterday for some other reason than the Mrs. . . . Now if I can just hit on a formula of less talk and more rock–some *^(#^(*@# has labled me as the “Gasbagcast”. I look forward to seeing, hearing and reading more about the PodcastconUK. Wikiwoo.

It was good to see you at PodcastCon on Saturday, Lloyd. Nice post, a good summary of what I spoke about.

You ask: “How is Neville’s remix of Hugh’s card compatible with Hugh’s CC No Derivs licence?”

Answer: Hugh has given me permission to ‘remix’ it for the specific use I made of it.

I completely failed to spot the camera. Now I need to watch it…but your link is broken. I can save to disk, but not play directly

Ohhh … scary! Fantastic job though Lloyd. You’ve been a bit of a star multi-media reporter for the conference – is there no end to your talents

Rachel, hopefully now it plays automagically – I had to have a word with libsyn, who host my media files to get it to work properly.

Alex, you’re too kind. I just like showing people what’s really possible. It’s only just really dawning on me that a significant number of people in that room have only become aware of blogging since they took up podcasting.

Neal, I know, this is early days for my video skills. I’ve just about mastered standing still, pointing the camera at the subject and pressing the record button. Next, I might try doing it while talking to someone, but I don’t hold out much hope, knowing my co-ordination skills. The Wizard of Oz thing is a bit creepy actually, Jimmy was doing a very good impression of a flying monkey when he went walkabout with the mic and Georgie would make a smashing Dorothy….mmmmmm. Alex – tin man, Neil – lion, Paul – scarecrow. Oh Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore!

awesome awesomoe aswesome, fab, brilliant, amazing, exceptional, wonderful, superb, great!

I think that just about sums it up?

Great video – it really shows how cool the event was!

This was really quite tasty. Well done you. I hope you plan to do more chapters for Librivox, time allowing. Those acting courses from so long ago have not been forgotten.

You are a star.Please do join in on Sunday.Hope our paths will cross again. In the meantime I am having a serious look at my blog and will definitely develop it once I’ve got my book underway.

I can really see how My blog will be the main tool to get the book out there for people to know about. I am so gald that I was asked to do this programme otherwise I would have been missing out on meeting great people like you!

I don’t quite know what the ell was being talked about in these wonderful snipets, but it was very much like being there. I kept expecting my friend Pat from the Bromley School system to pop into the limelight.
There were actually some interesting tidbits for an outsider to ponder. Once again, well done.

This is brilliant! I love this guy! Anyone who advocates conversation and more conversation is alright in my book. Except…

“The americans revolted against etiquette talk in favour of plain talking or straight talk.” Hooray! “Of course this became ritualised and hypcritical over time.” Booooo.

Lucie, you are right. It could be used for that purpose and would work a lot better than speed-dating (I only saw it on TV, so not a good judge of that)).

I think Theodore’s approach really works – as in you do get to know the other person and make connections on levels that are rarely explored in the usual social interactions.

Heh.

Great notes, Lloyd, as ever. Good to see you there (and you *did* look masterful in that grey jumper
Hope it was worth the trip

Hi Lloyd!
I’m hunting an old frien. Have a long time I don´t see him. His name is Lloyd Jonson and his family is from Wordchester. If you are, send me. If aren’t, sorry. So,sorry my bad english, because I´m from Brazil.

Hey! I know someone called Lloyd from England, too. Do you know him??!

Years ago I met an old guy named Joe in Primrose Hill in London. He said, ‘You’re American… I’ve got two daughters that live in America, maybe you know them.’
‘It’s a very big place, you know.’ I was trying not to make him feel stupid.
‘They live in California,’ he persisted.
‘I’ve never been to California. I’m sure I don’t know them.’ I’m always amazed how Europeans can’t quite grasp the size of the US.
‘Well, maybe you do know them. Their names are Joan and Jackie….’
‘..er…’
‘Collins. Joan and Jackie Collins.’
“…Oh! I *do* know who they are actually!’
‘I thought you might.’ Joe Collins was a sweet guy…

Welcome back!
Laughed out loud at the way you got the contents out of the bag – something deeply reverential about the way you treated the g.room products – looking forward to the rest of it – esp. number 7.

Uh oh… Clearly you have not heard the news: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1598685,00.html !!

A brave, yet tasteful, effort. Don’t think g-room Showergel will be leaping across the pond to the Podchef’s house anytime soon though. We Yanks don’t do showergel as a matter of course, and a runny one is right out of order. On the design/package side I prefer showergels which have a hanger of some sort–not that I’m a soap-on-a-rope sort of fan. . . .

If I am in any way responsible, in any way, shape or form, for getting you involved blogging, I can only apologize to the great British for public for what I appear to have inflicted on them …..

Oh Ducky! I was going to make some sort of wise crack about your hair not needing “repair”. . .more like re-model, but then the a$$-cheeks hove into view and I was temporarily blinded. . .thank God you didn’t drop the Shampoo anywhere on your right side . . . or you’d be in one of AC’s p0rnpodvertisements coming to a video ipod near you. . . .

As always a bold and daring statement. One of the funniest parodies of Johnny English I’ve seen in years. . . .all the best with #3 mate.

Chef, as one of my pod-children, please ignore my comments to Euan above. Do what Daddy says, not what Daddy does.

I was going to tell you to keep your cracks to yourself, but then I realised how hypocritical that could sound.

Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahha!

*inhale*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhaha!

I’ve seen your arse.

Gia, glad to give you a giggle. Now, you know the rules of this game. I show you mine and you…

…run away laughing and pointing and tell everyone :0

Nogg3r5, no worries – I’m not really a naked man, I just play one on the internets.

A side benefit of using #3, it would seem, is the ability to wash those morning breakfast dishes following your ablutions. Very cost-effective on the part of G-room. Now if they would only release it in a range of breakfasty flavors. . . .

That’s fabulous news and I have everything crossed for you. Who were the judges btw?

Weeeeeeeee! Well, done!!!! Yay!

That is just hilarious! Well done, brave Sir Lloyd!

Well done! Really, honestly pleased to see credit is going where it’s due.

Please, though, promise you’ll do a weeping Paltrow impersonation for your acceptance speech.

Does this relate in any way to your recent shower videos?

I think men like us should insist that g room come up with a line of patented pate gloss for super shiny scalps for those with a limited hair supply.

I suggest for your next feat you could investigate a line of hair restoration products from paint to weave–the Japanese are doing remarkable things–and then re-test the wax.

I wish that the Government Department I work for, which shall remain nameless, would use Wikis for collaborative writing. If they’re good enough to write national constitutions, then they’re good enough for preparing cross-cutting briefings or papers. The version control and tracking alone would make a Wiki more effective than any of the systems currently in place…

Phew. . . .you need to put your feet up and have a hot toddy man. I don’t have a cold and it makes my head spin.

No only is it small, but it looks scary too..

There is a need for a food agregator. (Foodgator? Foodlines?)

Me thinks the blogger protests too much. . . .perhaps the wine is a necessary antidote to whatever is on those skewers. I can see there is a serious need for the Podchef’s catering skills at these blogger meetups.
But in France? I think they’re relying on the wine to numb the palate. . . .

OK, I’ve just watched this back in full for the first time and am horrified to see the subliminal inclusion of Monsieur Loic Le Meur at the end. Geez! That guy gets everywhere!

Maarten, I’m sorry, I’ve put it right now. I haven’t a clue why I wrote Frank. I think there was a Dutch guy called FrankM in the IRC and somehow in the heat of the moment the two of you became confused in my mind. Sorry.

Good stuff – please keep us updated on future events. regards

Thanks for doing such a great podcast of everyone. Looking forward to hearing the other podcast.

Sarah
x

Lloyd lives!

Sooner or later we all become a statistic of some kind. . .

Done, and dusted Sunshine. http://kitchengardenfoods.motime.com/post/541294

Yikes! £350! I’ll just have to see you at a Geek Dinner (next week?).