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What if The Doctor had always been black?

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A delightful counter-historical for the entertainment world, as Peter Judge’s post has been brought back to the wold. What if the BBC had cast a black actor in Doctor Who in 1963, through all the regenerations, and into the new series? One thing’s clear. The fourth Doctor would still be everyone’s favourite: 4: Derek Griffiths The most outlandish and best-loved Doctor, Derek Griffiths was the first to be born in Britain, His previous TV work included Play School and Please Sir!but Doctor Who gave him somewhere to express himself. He made the character something of a hippy, with flamboyant clothes,

When you need a SIM, go local

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Local SIM or Roaming/International SIM while travelling? One of these options is going to be for “a real emergency” while another will allow me to stay connected, to reply to Twitter messages, to keep up to data on Facebook, post to my blog, moderate comments…and let me upload my podcasts. More of my thoughts on the BlogWorld Blog.

Sometimes you need crap audio on your podcast

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Some of my thoughts on imperfections in the audio helping your podcast sound authentic have went up on the BlogWorld blog, with an example from the mailbag from the Edinburgh Fringe podcast. They loved the interviews, they loved the people that were on the show (and some were buying tickets on the strength of these spots), but they missed something. They missed the hustle and bustle in the background, they missed the feeling that they were right in the thick of the excitement that the Fringe brought to Edinburgh. They missed the moments I had to stop and let a

Let’s meet up at BlogWorld New York

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At least I got a little break from the travelling. With the Eurovision Song Contest now over for another year (you can find a list of all the Eurovision coverage I contributed to here) it’s time to hit the road again and seek out some new challenges and ideas. And the best place for that sort of recharge, frankly, is in the company of lots of creative bloggers, writers, podcasters and entrepreneurs. Thankfully just such an even is happening next week, albeit in New York. Yes, it’s the first BlogWorld to take place on the East Coast, and I’ll be

Las Vegas, Blog World Expo, and Johnny Carson

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Looming up on the horizon is Blog World Expo, which happens this year in Las Vegas on October 15-17th. It’s subtly different this year as this conference and the Podcast and New Media Expo have merged to create one big conference, and stop all the problems that bloggers and ‘casters had last year trying to decide which one to go to (given they were (a) both in Vegas and (b) about 4 weeks apart). I’ve attended both events in the past. Last year I was at Blog World (the New Media expo ran during the Edinburgh Fringe last year, so