My Favourite Podcast Episodes From 2022
I’d like to showcase some podcasts to start your 2023. Rather than go for entire podcasts, here are five episodes I’ve enjoyed over the last year.
Tag: iain dale
Iain Dale, Ken Clarke, And A Podcasting Time Machine
Remember when podcasting could magically take you to another time, to another place, even to another world? It’s happened to me again.
15,000 words from 140,000 – some background on book serialisations
Iain Dale talks about selling the serialisation of a book (in this case Damian McBride’s memoirs). Irrespective of the topic, a look at something that goes on a lot, but the process isn’t always talked about. For publishers newspaper serialisations are a double edged sword. If a newspaper is allowed to serialise too much of the book, it can seriously impact on book sales. So there is always a word limit agreed in the contract. In the Mcbride book, if my memory serves me correctly, the Mail is allowed to serialise 15,000 words out of the total word count of
How can the Fringe crowds work out the best shows?
Mixing up the wisdom of the crowds, the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, and the all important question of “What have you seen that’s good?” over on Dale & Co.
Back in my day, an “A” meant something special
I’m sure with a bit of digging we’ll have the “exams are easier today” editorials, maybe even one that has a headteacher expressing delight in an entire class getting an A* in English, and other fluffy happy stories. But that helps nobody. Make the grade mean something, Make the “A” reflect the top ten percent of students sitting the exam, make the “B” the next 15%, and right down the line. Does that change the difficulty level of the paper? Perhaps not, but it will be clear which students are the more proficient than others. More at Dale & Co.
Blogging on the beauty of the long odds at the Fringe
Anyone following the UK Blogging scene will have spotted the recent launch of two major blog properties, The Huffington Post UK, and Iain Dale’s Dale & Company site. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing some opinion columns on the latter around the Fringe – and the first one is now posted: The Edinburgh Fringe is under way, with over 2500 shows from some 41,000 performers all crammed into the rain lashed Scottish capital. From now until the end of August they’ll take to the stage every night, hoping that in those huge numbers, they’ll find enough of an
