Short but sweet.

A return for the audioblog after a short hiatus. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a cable in my bag yesterday to get this uploaded. Another one coming later.

Slow to wake up this morning 19th May 2005 but able to squeeze out news that the BeepMarketing podcast is just around the corner and my first submission to sushiradio is up. Bonus rant: the state of Epsom station and the suburban railway system generally.

I asked for it, and I got it. The other day I asked how you saw me and this morning in my mailbox, Neal, the Podchef, had deposited some photoshop delights. I reproduce the one that made me (and my daughter) laugh out loud for your delectation.

This morning I talk a bit about last night’s pianosingsongcast and what else I got up to yesterday – together with what I have planned for today. You also get to hear how much it costs me for one month’s unlimited use of London’s splendid public transport system. Tune in next time to hear me reading from my weekly grocery till receipt!

What I didn’t talk about, was my listening fun yesterday: the cool soundseeing tour that Neal put out of him scrambling around in storage space and BicycleMark’s AudioCommunique #34 on philosophy and the connectedness of being.

tags: audioblog & gnome

Apologies to those who sat by their ipodders all day yesterday, waiting for an audioblog – I decided in the end to have a work at home day (including sitting in the garden, mmmmm….) and so the opportunity didn’t really arise.

I got to thinking about making your own entertainment so a made you this. I still can’t find Carnegie Hall on the map and as I say here: “Practice, it’s all about practice – if I played these tunes more often than once every 20 years, they might sound better”.

[Parental warning: features some explicit improvisation with some scenes of mild cat strangling]

tags: homespun & fun & old joanna

I had a spring in my step this morning. Mostly on the subject of “Podcasting is (NOT) a bad idea” and why I’m afraid I’ll continue to take it personally but also following up on yesterday’s walk in the park.

Then walking to the office I notice that at Selfridges, the Las Vegas Supernova window theme is being removed to be replaced with something yellow and “Beautiful?” Very apt, I think – what is beauty in this new world of democratic media?

I went back to Speakers Corner yesterday (unfortunately sans data card in my camera so no pics) but strolled there from Hyde Park Corner (at the other end of Park Lane) and while I strolled, I talked into my recording machine, very very slowly. A kind of summary of some of the audioblogs from the last week, but also some response to Jonathan’s provocative post from last week. More later on today’s audioblog.

Warning: Speakers Corner is a place for people to speak their mind without constraint except as exercised by their peers. You will hear ideas from some of the speakers that I personally find repellent and offensive – I present them all here because I believe it’s important that we look at what people actually say when given that freedom rather than what we imagine they might say.

Friday 13th doesn’t scare me.

But who am I. No really, I want to know, who do you think I am? From even your briefest accquantance with my writing or speaking voice, with whom do you associate me? I’m definitely definitely definitely not James Mason, neither am I Hunter S Thompson nor Douglas Adams. No definitely not any of those (gulp) dead guys, so who do you think I am? Answers in the comments please.

tags: authentic voice & writing & identity

photography by alison at bestshot

Mesdames et messieurs, je vous donne “La Promenade de Pod Parisienne” dans laquelle je fais le promenade en Paris, marchant et parlant comme un Anglais fol. Les photos se trouvent a flickr.com avec les tags “paris” et “podwalk”.

J’espere que vous l’appreciez.

tags: paris & podwalk

Stretched out to 20 minutes this morning praise for Gastrocast #7, encouragement for the Fernwood Five podcast and more on Public Service Conversations.

Today’s picture reminds us who owns Oxford Street. Don’t you go whistling “This Land is Your Land” around here, boy!

tags: audioblog & podchef & public service conversations