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Backgammon Gift (24-04-2008)
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 10:58pm BST by Dean
I stayed a month in Cyprus in 2008. It was one of the best months of my life. I love the island. When I left the beautiful villa we had been loaned, I left our absent hosts two gifts, a backgammon set, and this painting. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
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The Great Debate
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 12:20am BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
Let it not be said that music plays a side role in the great battle for hearts and minds. As the 9/11 anniversary coincides with a particularly shrill and vicious campaign by the American right, I bring you Burka Blue. The music sounds great, very art school frauenband, an almost industrial rock pop anti-protest. I’m [...] -
Swing Report
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 3:13pm BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
How do you make a trio sound like a big band, and rock a club? Berliners Dirty Honkers played at the Old Street club I went to last Saturday, and did just that. In midday tropical heat at midnight, they bust up the joint with artful screeches and an entertaining set which veered like an [...]
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HTC: Quietly Dumb (I can help you with that)
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 11:15am BST by Dean
The following is an unedited thread. It’s a series of technical support enquiries and responses relating to my humble but decent HTC Hero, purchased November 2009 and as of this moment, still running Android 1.5. There are some things that a new Android OS will provide – memory management, for example – which are more [...] -
August Moon 2010
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 11:18pm BST by Dean
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Awesome Competition
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 6:15pm BST by Dean
This fabulous and articulate rant explains how some people use “Awesome” as a kind of personal competition. Make sure to watch all the way to the end… Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Awesome
Posted: August 21st, 2010, 8:55am BST by Dean
I love the English language. It is a multi-faceted jewel of untold value. English is constantly shifting, changing and adapting, throwing new light and colour, and we English, the inhabitants of England, the progenitors of the second most spoken language on the planet (after Mandarin, vying for second place with Spanish) are particularly susceptible to [...] -
Untitled – Alice Rolfe, Lisa Muten at the Toilet Gallery, Kingston
Posted: August 20th, 2010, 11:56pm BST by Dean
Interesting exhibition by Alice Rolfe and Lisa Muten, two emergent artists, in an interesting space, an ex-public toilet turned art gallery in Nipper Alley, Kingston. On through Sunday 22nd August 2010. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
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I Love Electro Swing!
Posted: August 19th, 2010, 6:56pm BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
I used to run a DJ agency ten years ago, and since those crazed times, I’ve not really bothered to follow all the nuances and subgenres and sub-subgenres of dance music.. there are so bleedin’ many variations, and so tiny are the changes, except once every ten years or so, that the entire dance music [...]
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Le Château de Haute Roche (Dourbes)
Posted: August 18th, 2010, 3:42pm BST by Dean
Christophe explains how as a young man, he helped to restore large parts of this historic Wallonian castle. He also explained off camera how his friends tricked nearby campers by faking the vandalism of their tents and then pretending the same thing had happened to them – a scurrilous and enterprising way to meet girls, [...] -
Push
Posted: August 15th, 2010, 9:47am BST by Dean
It’s the oldest joke in the world for the joggers who populate the park. Stretching one’s tendons, easing out the tension of limbs is a necessary routine before and after running, a must if one is to avoid a smooth, conditioned lope turning into a post-exercise jerky hobble. A really easy way to do this [...]
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Can You Stand Upon One Leg?
Posted: August 13th, 2010, 10:41am BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
Not every comic song has the panache to carry the idea through to its musically logical conclusion, but The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannan is refreshingly un-selfconscious in this charmingly silly ditty. I recently returned from Norway and Belgium and left behind me new fans, many of whom were standing on one leg. From song to [...] -
Life Without Buildings
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 12:26pm BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
This excellently odd song, The Leanover, was tipped me via Don Ratto from Unio and Petitio. You might not get it first off – as my pal Yana said, she didn’t dislike it, she didn’t like it. But I love its gently manic breathless stream of consciousness delivery. Once you grapple with them, the lyrics [...]
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Les Delires
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 11:30pm BST by Dean
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July Sun
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 11:02pm BST by admin
Just back from visiting friends in Europe. This picture was taken in Belgium in my friend Christophe‘s kitchen.
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North European Summer 2010
Posted: July 29th, 2010, 2:54pm BST by Dean
Nuclear Sky, Belgium (Wallonia) Near Horizon Late Day, Norway Scarlet Japanese Dusk Gold Sky, Norway Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Ants
Posted: July 21st, 2010, 2:25pm BST by Dean
Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season Ants know their business As they move in purposeful bursts Run – stop. Run – stop. Examine. Determined they move back and forth Between military bases Armoured, building site-ready Prepared to deal with interlopers, Drag a fat moth single-handed Back to the communal larder Even to [...] -
News, Death and Gallows Humour
Posted: July 16th, 2010, 10:15am BST by Dean
Yesterday, according to Channel 4 News, after a phone call from Downing Street, the Raoul Moat Facebook fan page was taken down. We’re told Facebook didn’t remove it, but that it was done by the people who started to focus on sympathy for the gunman. Questions were raised in Parliament. It’s interesting that days after [...] -
Seth in London
Posted: July 15th, 2010, 1:26am BST by Dean
Hmm Seth, East London Behind You wot, mate?? Christopher Wren, Seth Eagelfeld Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
The King of Ink
Posted: July 12th, 2010, 3:14pm BST by Dean
Unio and Petitio delight with this summer rockist peculiar boogie bit.ly/kingofink Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
The Ballad of Jogging Butcher
Posted: July 9th, 2010, 8:38am BST by Dean
“Thank God I’m fit as a butcher’s dog Or that would have had me pegged” His oily sweat like liquid lard Drips from a roast beef leg A half-moon stain beneath his chin Spreads like a messy baby The darker reek of two rank pits Unadulterated for the ladies Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
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The Return of Blog of Funk
Posted: July 8th, 2010, 10:03am BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
From 2004 to 2008, under the pseudonym Deek Deekster, I wrote Blog of Funk. This work was an unadulterated expression of personal truth, an exploration of the form, a long, rambling, tight, focused, fun, savage, kind, irritable, precise, impressionistic tour-de-force of a blog, which made me many friends and a few enemies. I ported the entire work to The Other Side of Everything where I continued to write in much the same vein, wanting to focus this domain on more pertinent subject matter, such as funk music, and specifically, the kind of music I like, write and perform.
Since the first blog was such a huge success, I scotched the title and left it to posterity, and I’m not saying I made a mistake. But, I do miss the title, Blog of Funk. It said what it was on the tin, even though it wasn’t just about music at all, but about the navigation of this contrary world we inhabit.
With the balance shifted towards the music, and my usual self emerging despite all attempts to encourage work elsewhere, enough time has elapsed to write this blog again under it’s old banner.
Welcome back, Blog of Funk.
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Dean’s Blue Hole
Posted: July 7th, 2010, 10:17pm BST by Dean
I have a blue hole. It’s very deep. Enough said. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
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Not Quite Dusted
Posted: July 6th, 2010, 12:05pm BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
Spotify has more or less replaced radio for me. I’ve been listening to it for the last year or so. It’s an interesting and mostly good quality service. Sound is far better than MP3 format music because it uses superior OGG encoding. Mobile, I have actually walked through a park, searching for tracks on the [...]
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Temper, Temper
Posted: July 6th, 2010, 12:54am BST by Dean
The human connection between temper (noun) – as in heat of mind or passion, outbursts of anger, etc. – and temper (verb) – as in the degree of hardness and strength imparted to a metal, as by quenching, heat treatment, etc. – is temperature, and that has struck me as significant for as long as [...] -
Fate of the Amazon hangs in the balance | Siân Herbert
Posted: July 5th, 2010, 1:50pm BST by Dean
since inception, the forestry code has not even been successfully enforced. Landowners often fall foul of the regulations and levels of illegal deforestation are high. According to some estimates, one-quarter of the Brazilian Amazon has already been subjected to deforestation or damage. via guardian.co.uk Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
If I Thought It Would Do Any Good
Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 3:09pm BST by Dean
If I thought it would do any good I would send flowers daily for a week And then have them arrive on the hour, every hour Each bloom bearing a single word If I believed it would help I would hire a small orchestra to play Mariachi songs in the street Outside your well-proportioned London [...] -
Bobby Goldsboro – Summer The First Time
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 4:52pm BST by Dean
I listened to this as a teenager. Oh, to be seventeen! I thought as a 12 year old. What endless vistas of sexual promise lay ahead of me… and today being the last day of June, like every year, it comes back around. The arrangement is striking, strings and piano combining to evoke an otherworldly, [...]
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Here’s One from 2007
Posted: June 26th, 2010, 8:13pm BST by admin
Found this: I am talking podcasting, radio and pictures in 2007 on the BBC website. Can’t remember the interview but it sounds like the kind of stuff I was concerned with at the time.
It seems more like a decade ago that this was pubished, but in fact, it’s only three years. Technology develops so fast, and with it the culture it has spawned.
I still prize the internet for what I first saw it as – the world’s first truly global cultural exchange.
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Scientists Confirm: Tea Goes Well With Toast
Posted: June 26th, 2010, 10:39am BST by Dean
Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland confirmed today that tea goes well with toast. The research follows on from work carried out in 2008 in which it was calculated that it would take the Large Hadron Collider a mere 30 nanoseconds to defrost a pizza. “We all love a cup of [...] -
Don’t Mention the World Cup Ever Again
Posted: June 24th, 2010, 9:15am BST by Dean
Four years ago in 2006 I wrote this song and made this video for Mr John Otto Cleese to coincide with the World Cup. You know – THE World Cup – the FIFA World Cup. Football. The game played with the feet. By the whole world. Didn’t do too badly. Astonishingly, now England are playing [...] -
The First Dance
Posted: June 21st, 2010, 5:51am BST by Dean
An important part of a wedding is the bride and groom’s first dance together as man and wife. This is the realtime recording of making that precious moment happen. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Ten O’Clock Midsummer Sky, London
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 2:08am BST by Dean
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WTF? English Swearing for Koreans
Posted: June 17th, 2010, 9:21am BST by Dean
Language is power. Using the wrong language can be very dangerous, as we know. But, using the right language at the right moment can save your life, or your liberty. This calm and thorough explanation of common profanity is exactly the kind of teaching western schools need. Please join the Campaign for Real Swearing: http://realswearing.org [...]
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New Old Blog
Posted: June 16th, 2010, 9:50pm BST by admin
It’s June, nearly solstice. My brother’s getting married at the weekend. Updated the blog to WordPress.
What more can I tell you? Life is at a hinge point.
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Lessons in Vuvuzela
Posted: June 15th, 2010, 2:42pm BST by Dean
Click here to download: vuvuzela_1.mp4 (36999 KB) There are more notes to the stadium-filling vuvuzela than just the drone, and more ways to play it than the full-volume blast which all sane-minded adults dread, and children of all ages love. Tip: Radio commentary has much less vuvuzela – television audio contains a higher proportion of [...] -
Bum-shaped Pear
Posted: June 9th, 2010, 6:58pm BST by Dean
It was a pear with the most beautiful bottom I’d ever seen. If it were a woman, I’d have married it. As it was, I ate it, and it tasted as delicious as it looked. Posted via email from Most Interesting -
Please Come
Posted: June 5th, 2010, 12:16pm BST by Dean
Please come to my party The one that’s in my head Where lovelet waves are lapping And everyone is fed Please come to my disco The one that’s in my feet Where shimmies, grinds and pirhouettes Spill out onto the street Please come to my picnic, we’ll eat Falafels in the park Champagne, liqueur and [...] -
Israel Massacres Civilians Delivering Aid to Gaza
Posted: May 31st, 2010, 10:34am BST by Dean
This is a most appalling massacre. Unarmed civilians delivering aid to Gaza, part of a small flotilla in international waters, shot dead. At time of writing, ten are believed to have died, with Israel’s predictable PR machine claiming their forces were attacked. I’m finding this incredibly depressing. I’m disgusted by how many intelligent people are [...] -
Leaving London Bridge by Train
Posted: May 30th, 2010, 9:32am BST by Dean
A photo sequence made with iPhone shots taken every second or two.. an old-fashioned slide show. Watch out for Tower Bridge behind all the modern trackside buildings. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Full Moon, May 2010
Posted: May 27th, 2010, 11:42pm BST by Dean
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Breaking Circle
Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:58am BST by Dean
An old girlfriend wrote to me. She told me how good everything was in her life – meditation, art, music and shiatsu – as she sailed around the world on a friend’s yacht. She was ok, everything was great, but her heart was tired. She went on, in an email which ran to three paragraphs, [...]
International Bicycle Thief
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Holloway Sky
Posted: May 17th, 2010, 12:02am BST by Dean
London, Islington, looking north from the Artists and Miscreants Club. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
National Trust Sounds Project
Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:24pm BST by Dean
National Trust: The Album. Beautiful – and free. One of the world’s most respected musicians has created an album with the Trust, comprising of British natural sounds including birdsong, crashing waves and wind breezing through a country garden. Jarvis Cocker, best known as the former front man for the band Pulp, has worked with us [...] -
The Main Object of a Revolution
Posted: May 8th, 2010, 12:12pm BST by Dean
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.” – Jean Genet. I took this photo in September 2007: Two and a half years of financial crisis later… the UK election produces a “hung” parliament. I read this measured, optimistic article by the media-friendly ex-Conservative minister Michael [...] -
Election Haiku #13: 7th May 2010
Posted: May 7th, 2010, 9:42am BST by Dean
Voters queued for hours At church halls, primary schools Parliament was hung Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Voting for Pleasure
Posted: May 6th, 2010, 1:12pm BST by Dean
I like to make voting a pleasure by dressing up for it, and celebrating the use of the tiny amount of power we have struggled to win. Power is far too serious a matter to be left only in the hands of those who seek it. Posted via email from Dean [...] -
Election Haiku #12: 6th May 2010
Posted: May 6th, 2010, 8:37am BST by Dean
“The nation decides” I always vote for Fred Cook Socialist, Grandad Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #11: 5th May 2010
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 9:19am BST by Dean
The Conservatives Scared of not winning power Steal it anyway? Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Islington South – Contenders
Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 9:49pm BST by Dean
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Fatenah
Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 11:32am BST by Dean
I saw this very moving film yesterday at the London Palestine Film Festival. Directed by Ahmad Habash, a Palestinian who has lived in Gaza, I found it remarkable not just because of the accurate portrayal of the conditions in Gaza, but also because of the sensitive way the issue of breast cancer is shown. If you [...] -
Vote and Hope
Posted: May 2nd, 2010, 1:28pm BST by Dean
Enclosure: [download | play]
In the UK general election five years ago, I interviewed as many of my candidates as I could find using the brand new, still widely unknown technique of podcasting. It was as much for me as for my community, though I received emails from fellow constituents thanking me for the coverage as it had [...] -
Election Haiku #10: 1st May 2010
Posted: May 1st, 2010, 4:59pm BST by Dean
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Election Haiku #9: 1st May 2010
Posted: May 1st, 2010, 11:09am BST by Dean
David Cameron Will eat our children’s futures If we vote for him… "I think it’s worth taking you through what a Conservative government will look like: a Conservative government would cast the country adrift from the world. You’ll see no reform of our clapped out political system; you’ll see a continued haemorraghing of public trust. You’ll see [...] -
As Soon As Spring Arrives, It Is Swept Away
Posted: April 30th, 2010, 1:12pm BST by Dean
I watched the rain bring pink blossom down which carpeted the city pavement most beautifully. It lasted less than a morning; the street cleaner quickly removed the best litter we see all year. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #8: 29th April 2010
Posted: April 29th, 2010, 6:35pm BST by Dean
Thursday twenty-ninth here comes the final debate. Anticipation! Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #7: 28th April 2010
Posted: April 28th, 2010, 3:27pm BST by Dean
Bigotgate : drama! Brown’s radio mike sponsored by Rupert Murdoch Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Full Moon -14 hours
Posted: April 27th, 2010, 10:19pm BST by Dean
28th April 2010 moon is full at 12:21 GMT. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Crap Happen
Posted: April 25th, 2010, 12:51pm BST by Dean
The crap that happens crappy The crappy crappy crap The crap that happens crappy The crap, the crap, the crap The crap that happens crap The craps that crappy crappy The crappy, crappy, crappy The crap, the crap, the crap Crap happens, crappy crappy The crappy crappy craps Crap, crap happens crappy Crap, the [...] -
Dreams of Dreams and Future Apps
Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 10:36am BST by Dean
I’ve been recording my sleep patterns – or at least, attempting to record them – using an iPhone app called Sleep Cycle. This app presumes to measure sleep activity in order to wake you during the lightest sleep phase, thus avoiding those awful jolts of awakening which occur when you are forceably roused from deep sleep, [...] -
Jenny Cash – Vote For Me
Posted: April 21st, 2010, 7:46pm BST by Dean
Exercise your democratic right… Jenny Cash keeping the wheels of democracy turning. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Murdoch’s Sun Shining Blatantly
Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:17pm BST by Dean
Three weeks more of this… Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #6: 20th April 2010
Posted: April 20th, 2010, 7:59am BST by Dean
Liberal ratings sustainable or bubble reform the system Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
If I Were Prime Minister, I’d Repeal the Digital Economy Act
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 3:53pm BST by Dean
The BBC want to know what you’d do if you were PM for a day. I said I’d repeal the Digital Economy Act… Anyone? Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #5: 19th April 2010
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 10:04am BST by Dean
Nick Clegg moves ahead Is it the debate, or the Ten percent bank tax? Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Caribou – Swim
Posted: April 18th, 2010, 2:49pm BST by Dean
Swim by Caribouband Saw Caribou gig most of their new album yesterday in Brighton at the Freebutt, a tiny venue but a great gig. Posted via web from Dean Whitbread -
Social Work
Posted: April 17th, 2010, 2:14pm BST by Dean
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Can You Identify This Bird Call?
Posted: April 15th, 2010, 6:53am BST by Dean
Ornithologists and naturalists – your help gratefully received. I am trying to determine a species of bird which has recently shown up in Islington, London. It calls at 9 seconds into this recording, louder and lower pitched than all the other (presumably smaller) birds and it has a decending "cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho" eight notes. Sometimes the call can [...] -
Election Haiku #4: 15th April 2010
Posted: April 15th, 2010, 12:12am BST by Dean
the manifestos gospels according to men loud mouthed but tight lipped Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Bridget Fox Interview
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 1:08am BST by Dean
Interview with Bridget Fox, http://bridget4islington.wordpress.com Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Islington South and Finsbury. NB: I am not affiliated with any political party, but I am concerned about certain causes and my local environment. The issues I raise in this interview are the Digital Economy Act, a campaign run by the Open Rights Group, [...] -
A Responsible Sauce
Posted: April 11th, 2010, 10:50pm BST by Dean
Haddock with vegetables, seasoned to my very own recipe. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
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UK Podcasters End Association
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The UK Podcasters Association was founded in 2006 to protect podcasters’ rights, and promote podcasting. The association was dissolved at the end of 2009 after three years of prominent and successful activity, during a time when the media landscape changed completely. One of UKPA’s major achievements was to put podcasting on the wider stage, establishing [...] -
ADM Webcast May 21st
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The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) is hosting “The Podcast Consumer Revealed” Webcast on May 21st, 2009, at 1:00 EST. And we hope you can join us. Tom Webster from Edison Research will present this special joint ADM/Edison Webcast of the fourth iteration of this widely-cited, authoritative look at the growing audience for audio and video [...] -
What is a Podcast?
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We’ve been broadcasting for 1000’s of years, but is it still radio?
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So the farmer, for thousands of years, sowed his seed on the furrowed ground of a ploughed field; the fertile imagination and ingenuity of man planted the seeds of wireless mass communications in the late 1800’s and radio blossomed a few years later, for entertainment and information. Rather than invent a new word to describe [...] -
How Lisa seduced me and changed my life…
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At a recent careers fair held at Dr Challoner’s High School in Bucks which I attended, representing the world of “media”, one of the most frequently asked questions by the students was “How did you get involved in media?”. Well, it was a long winding road but I can trace the roots way back to [...] -
Kangaroo bounced out of court
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The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all have an on-line presence, notably the iPlayer. For some time now they’ve been collaborating on a Video on Demand project called Kangaroo whereby their content is made available from one jointly run location. Yesterday the Competition Commission stopped the project in its tracks as in their view Kangaroo would [...] -
UKPA on Twitter
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8 x 8 is a life enhancing 64
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We are all used to having unbelievably powerful computers – none of us would go back to systems that we had 10 years ago. And, just as you can never have a too fast processor, or too much RAM, or too bib a disk, you can never have too much bandwidth. Before we go into details, [...] -
A new New Deal could bring light at the end of the fibre…
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Roosevelt created the New Deal within 100 days of becoming President of the United States of America in 1932. The New Deal created jobs and led to the creation and expansion of America’s road and transport infrastructure under the auspices of the WPA (Works Progress Administration). The Industrial Revolution was all about increasing the velocity of [...] -
27,343.75 floppy disks
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Holly molly! The first Mac I used had a single 128K floppy disk drive; the first one I bought had a 20Mb hard drive which I thought would be impossible to fill… I’ve pretty much filled the 3.5Terabytes of disk space attached to my quadcore Mac!! If my maths is right, that’s 27,343.75 floppy disk drives! Wo. Which [...] -
The new boy on the block
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It’s with some trepidation that I write this blog, the first as Chairman of the UKPA; Dean’s been such a giant, bestriding the podcast community, a fantastic representative for us all, fending off foes and gaining support from allies in the worlds of Heritage Media as well as New Media… …a tough act to follow. So… what [...] -
Venue Change for UKPA Meeting
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We have had to change venue for tomorrow’s meeting: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=N7+8PR&spn=0.005,0.02&hl=en It’s a pub called the Duchess of Kent. It’s 2 mins from Highbury and Islington tube, which itself is 10 mins from Oxford Circus on the Victoria Line. -
Podcasting, Rights and Music – UKPA Event at Guardian Audio, London, March 29th 2008
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UKPA is hosting a seminar on rights with the Open Rights Group at the Guardian, Farringdon, London, Saturday March 29th 2pm – 5pm and it would be great if you would come and take part. Becky Hogge and Matt Wells (heads of ORG and Guardian Audio respectively) will be there, as well as representatives from MCPS-PRS [...] -
Social Media Café
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There is a new initiative afoot to try and bring a new, physical space to the UK, the Social Media Café. UKPA member Lloyd Davis discusses what it is and how he hopes it will work in the UKPA podcast.
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A Grey Affair
Posted: April 11th, 2010, 9:04am BST by Dean
Enclosure: [download]
Sunday morning, London, 11th April. I awoke to the impossibly exotic sound of a bird which has no place in this city, making a plaintive call: “cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – cho – ” This is the second [...] -
UK Secures Patent on English Language, Non-Commonwealth Nations To Pay Royalties from 2012
Posted: April 10th, 2010, 11:33am BST by Dean
that’ll be ten quid now you’re speaking my language we invented it! Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #3: 9th April 2010
Posted: April 9th, 2010, 6:03am BST by Dean
they all fear Paxman Cameron, Brown won’t face him Clegg snapped up the chance Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Mysterious Dark Object Found in Star System
Posted: April 8th, 2010, 9:14am BST by Dean
Scientists have taken close-up pictures of Epsilon Aurigae during its eclipse, which happens every 27 years. Using an instrument developed at the University of Michigan in the US, astronomers were able to zoom in on the star, which is likely to be about 2000 light years away from our solar system. This enabled them [...] -
Election Haiku #2: 7th April 2010
Posted: April 7th, 2010, 8:43pm BST by Dean
politicians shout so loud we cannot hear them desperate to win Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Election Haiku #1: 6th April 2010
Posted: April 6th, 2010, 8:22am BST by Dean
The election called Brown, Cameron, Clegg on marks: Ready, steady, go! Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Pre-election Haiku #3
Posted: April 5th, 2010, 11:43pm BST by Dean
invisible man Nick Clegg is not quite the same; but who gives a shit? Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Pre-election Haiku #2
Posted: April 5th, 2010, 6:01pm BST by Dean
Gordon Brown frowns, throws His weight around; he can’t stop A run on the pound Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Pre-election Haiku #1
Posted: April 5th, 2010, 5:52pm BST by Dean
A rich, pretty boy Pretending to give a shit: David Cameron Posted via email from Dean Whitbread -
Happy Eater
Posted: April 4th, 2010, 10:48am BST by Dean
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FUNK: we make nice stuff happen
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Bed ‘O’ Roses
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 12:53pm BST by deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread)
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Ian Dury is one of my heroes. He was a unique person, a true bohemian, a painter who went on to make hit records with unforgettable lyrics, punk attitude, and irresistable funk, who performed and sang like a demented music hall artist. But along with his raucous, explicit, confrontational demeanour, Ian Dury also wrote tender, [...]
Blog of Funk
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Van Doesburg v. My Kitchen
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 11:52am BST by Dean
Here’s a tile pattern designed by leading art and design light Theo Van Doesburg: And here’s the tile design for my new kitchen, which I conceived without referring to anything except my imagination and the tiles available in a local shop: OK – Van Doesburg has a big floor, I have [...] -
Hot Cross Buns
Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 8:52am BST by Dean
A tradition I really like. Not to be confused with cross hot buns, which are entirely different. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread