Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator
My family tends to stream far more music from the mainstream than buying albums thanks to an Apple Music family subscription . My album purchases tend to be either ‘asking the band after the gig’ or physical orders from personal websites because iTunes doesn’t have a lot of Finnish new-age
Continue readingYou might recall that after this year’s radio broadcast of the  Edinburgh Fringe chat show came to the end, I decided to keep the format alive and showcase all the fun things in Edinburgh each week (that would have been the moment for a David Tennant-esque “I don’t want to
Continue readingHorace Deidu looks at the average spend of an Apple user, which is dropping as the user base increases (with my emphasis). This can be read as: “Each of the current 575 million accounts generates about half the revenue of the 100 million accounts of 2009.†One would expect such
Continue readingUpdate: From the Official Charts website. Three versions of the song are currently figuring in the Top 200 – Judy Garland’s version at 54, Ella Fitzgerald’s 1961 cover is at 146 and the Munchkins‘ version at 183. Contrary to some reports, all three versions qualify under industry chart rules. At
Continue readingFor many studios and other content providers, mobile apps are a new source of income and a powerful way to engage audiences, sell games and merchandise. But these revenues are threatened if developers do not pay licensing fees. Pop quiz: Do you think the studios will have a reasonable definition
Continue readingI popped into iTunes yesterday to grab some links, and while I was there, check that the Fringe podcast is showing up and getting fed through properly (to which the answer is almost, as the new album art needs picked up), and I glanced at the top lists in the
Continue readingMusic publisher BMG are ready to bid for music publisher EMI. Music publisher Warner are likely to pitch in as well, while music publisher Sony and music publisher Universal won’t sit on the dock of the bay either. Apart from the fact that this would keep Competition Lawyers and Regulators
Continue readingGetJar, which bills itself as “the world’s largest free app store†and distributes apps for Android, BlackBerry, Java, Symbian and the mobile web, received a cease and desist letter from Apple’s attorneys over the use of the phrase “app store.†Perhaps Steve Jobs’ company is counting on GetJar having smaller
Continue readingIn the haste to get the new podcast, Room 404, open in time for the B3ta Newsletter, the normal way of starting a new show didn’t actually happen – there was only one podcast available when people started to flood in, the next guests weren’t lined up, the format of
Continue readingIt’s always fun to watch the Edinburgh Fringe podcast climb up the rankings inside iTunes every year, and 2010 is no different. There’s been steady progress, and now only two mighty Arts podcasts are preventing a number one. Yes, The Archers and the Radio 4 Food Programme are doing what
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