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Junior Eurovision 2011 and the first Juke Box Jury round

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There’s another Eurovision Song Contest around the corner (Junior Eurovision will be on Dec 3rd, and broadcast from Yerevan, Armenia). Leading up to the contest, the traditional preview shows on the Eurovision podcast will be running, but this time the regular guests on Juke Box Jury have been stood down. It’s Junior Eurovision, so that means Junior Juke Box Jury and the kids from Duncan Place deciding on a Hit, Miss, or Maybe. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/UnofficialEurovisionSongContestPodcast116/escinsight_20111118_116_JJBJ2011_1.mp3] Round 1 has the songs from hosts Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belgium. As always, more fun and games at ESC Insight, along with a bundle of

Thumbs up for Mango from The Verge/This Is My Next team

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Skipping to the end of Chris Ziegler’s look at Windows Phone Mango for the money quote: …this platform still has an enormous uphill battle to climb to carve out its stake of the market… at no point while using this year-old hardware did I feel encumbered or out-of-date — in fact, I usually felt like the software was taking better advantage of the available processing power than the much more muscular Android handsets I’ve been testing over the last few months. Put simply, regardless of your preconceptions, Windows Phone finally deserves an honest look the next time you’re ready to

Glastonbury Preview on this week’s Rock Show

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[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TPCRock_Friday196/tpn_rock_friday_20110617_196_Glastonbury.mp3] Looking forward to the big summer music festival next week on The Rock Show (iTunes link), with my personal recommendations of Glastonbury acts. For the record I’ve not listened to the 2000 acts who will be in the muddy fields, but you’re not going to go wrong with The Naked and Famous, Admiral Fallow, James Vincent McMurrow, Darwin Deez or Ron Sexsmith.