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How Should I Cover The Fringe With The New Web Tools?

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With the Edinburgh Fringe fast approaching, I’m thinking about the best way to cover the Fringe with the newest web tools. Naturally the core product is still the podcast – with a daily 30 minute show from August 7th through till August 31st available through this podcast / RSS feed (or via iTunes), along with the weekly preview shows I’m currently running. The question is what else to do? The rise of Twitter is the obvious tool to consider using (especially after the success of my Eurovision coverage), but the Fringe isn’t a mass shared experience as the song contest

The Best of the Fringe Podcast: Mitch Benn

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Continuing to showcase some of the interviews from previous Edinburgh Fringe years, this week I turn to a familiar voice for listeners to Radio 4’s The Now Show… Mitch Benn. Before you listen, it is worth pointing out that Mitch and I knew each other when we were both at Edinburgh University, so this interview from 2006 does have a hint of Stadler and Waldorf about it as we reminisce, but Mitch talks a lot about what the Fringe means on the stand-up circuit, from entertaining audiences to promoting yourself. The Fringe is, essentially, a great big trade show, and

The Best Of The Fringe Podcast: Four Poofs and a Piano

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As mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be repackaging some of the older interview from the Edinburgh Fringe podcasts in the run up to the 2009 Fringe starting on August 7th. The first interview from the archives are three singers who, with a fourth member who was lost around Leith Docks on the day, make up the house band on Friday night with Jonathan Ross… it’s Four Poofs and a Piano. It goes without saying that you won’t be able to buy any tickets for their 2006 show and still see them, but consider this and the rest of the “Best

Looking Back At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

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It’s now been a few weeks since the end of the Edinburgh Festival, and I have (finally) caught up on enough sleep to look back on the madness that is the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (from The Stage and The Podcast Network – sorry but after a month the full tag line is a pavlovian reaction. And there is no other word than madness to describe it. Numbers for The Fringe itself are mind-boggling… some 2,000 shows, with 31,000 performances and 19,000 on stage artists. On top of that you have all the layers that are needed to make the infrastructure

Edinburgh Fringe Podcast Doing Well in iTunes

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The Fringe podcast is a lot of work (I’ll do a recap at the end of the month for you all, right now I’m jsut avoiding the obviousness of the work levels) but the reaction it gets, from private mails and recognition around edinburgh is lovely. And the world likes it too… with a Festival pick in iTunes, and it’s currently climbing up the ‘Arts’ chart in iTunes. Currently it’s sitting at #6 (from the position of #24 earlier this morning), with only the might of the Guardian (one podcast) and The BBC taking in the five slots above me.

Here Comes the Edinburgh Fringe Podcasts for 2008!

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Fringe podcast has started again – I suspect many of them will be cross posted here, but in case you want to be niceley organised, this is the RSS feed for just the Fringe material. The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #1 (MP3 40.4 mb, 44 minutes 10 seconds) DOWNLOAD the podcast by right clicking on this link, or press play and listen in your browser. [audio:http://edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_eff08_20080801_01.mp3] Download MP3 – Show Notes – RSS Feed August the first, and the starting gun on both the Edinburgh Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast has fired. Which means a month of daily podcasts