I’ve long been a fan of Pete Kirwan; we did good beers together when we found ourselves on the same panel at UCLAN last year.
And so for those in need of a sobering read this morning, I can only commend this to you.
Albeit with a heavy heart and a sinking feeling for all concerned. My [...]
27 January 2009 – 12:38 pm
I should have mentioned it last week but in the midst of all the managerial upheaval at Carrow Road, slipped me by…
But, anyway, they’ve done it again today. So I can now add another strand to our ‘backchat’ thinking… as in what does ‘backchat’ do for you? Just what were 4iP up to when they [...]
23 January 2009 – 3:13 pm
Here we go… two new toys from the 4iP cupboard. And congratulations to both.
For if lap-top and mobile are, indeed, our sickle and scythe, then – come this revolution, brothers and sisters – look at what we can now do off our Apple iPhones….
http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/4ip_invests_in_audioboo/
… we can be a hyper-local radio station; we can podcast an [...]
22 January 2009 – 12:30 am
For those of you who don’t follow the fortunes of Norwich City religiously, you may – not unreasonably – have missed the fact that the last seven days have been something of a managerial mess at Carrow Road as the club’s owner Delia Smith reached for her chopping board, ditched Glenn Roeder and – today [...]
21 January 2009 – 11:21 pm
As a tiny green shoot poking up in the shadow of some mighty – albeit swaying – broadcasting oaks, I’m always slightly fearful of wandering into the great ‘top-slice’ debate. Not exactly my ‘patch’.
But having once upon a time been shared a dinner table with OfCom at an invite-only do last summer and having now [...]
5 January 2009 – 12:47 pm
As the world and his wife start to throw their thoughts into the ring as to what 2009 might bring for us all, one conculsion starts to emerge.
That John Fry – formerly, of course, my grand-master flash at Archant HQ – is in for a busy year.
But what is also very interesting is a sense [...]
11 December 2008 – 1:48 pm
If only because one of my more seminal, mid-life crisis moments arrived courtesy of the man – C Shirky/40th birthday/newspapers are like the record industry, etc – his thoughts on the fall of the Tribune Group are – as Jeff Jarvis points out – well worth a read….
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/08/the-newspaper-indust.html
Mr Shirky has been a constant companion almost [...]