Spam.

 Spam.  Life, the Universe and Everything  No Responses »
Apr 252013
 

Shortly, there will be a new audio piece up on the Radio page. Link here.

Secondly, ages ago you may remember that I did a piece on the spam comments on this site, going through them and just generally laughing at them. I was intending to do this at other points, just for a laugh really, but never got round to it.

I do fairly regularly check through the spam comment folder on this site, mainly because in the past I have missed genuine comments that have been marked as spam. None of them really seemed to be as amusing as they were when I made that first post ages ago, which is possibly why I haven’t bothered keeping up the giggles (not that there really were any). Most are done by an automated system with the idea of making it sound like a proper comment, but actually is just a front to link you to sites that steal your information – one that seems to be the most easy to trick people with is one that says something like ‘good content, but your site is broken in xyz browser’. Anyway, I digress.

The reason for coming up with this now is that in the spam folder this evening, I come across two messages:

Have you ever thought about including a little bit more than just your articles? I mean, what you say is important and everything. However think of if you added some great images or videos to give your posts more, “pop”! Your content is excellent but with pics and videos, this site could certainly be one of the greatest in its niche. Very good blog!

and

Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something informative to read?

Ironically, the two posts were on the same entry on the site, both of which were a radio piece with no text. So apparantly, when I post a radio piece (which I will be doing shortly, or have done shortly depending on what the opening paragraph of this post reads), I should include some ‘great images or videos’, but also not ‘waste my intelligence on just posting videos’.

I guess reading and videos is just old hat now. I’ll stick to audio.

Recent Updates…

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Dec 142012
 

Just to let you know if you’re a regular visitor to this website (though I wonder why!), one of my university assignments has been to write some blog posts about each of my lectures in a specific unit. Rather than setting up another site, I have just put them here. They’re generally under the ‘Professional Studies (Uni work)’ category, but unfortunately they do appear here as well. They may be interesting to you, but they probably won’t be. Just ignore them, and eventually they’ll fall down the posting list.

Of course, that does depend on how much I update here really, doesn’t it. As it always does.

I’m sure I’ll have things to say about something at some time. There’ll probably be a Review of 2012 to come, but that’ll probably be in January.

Provided the world doesn’t end on 21 December that is… (Disclaimer: I don’t think it will.)

26 November: Compliance.

 26 November: Compliance.  Professional Studies (Uni work)  No Responses »
Nov 262012
 

Possibly one of the duller things to do, but definitely the most important, this session covered the compliance aspects of radio. The minimum compliance expectations for broadcast radio in the UK is specified by Ofcom, and cover guidelines for statons dealing with aspects such as content involving children and young people (under 18s), crime, religion, [...]

12 November: Martyn Lee and other guest speakers

 12 November: Martyn Lee and other guest speakers  Professional Studies (Uni work)  No Responses »
Nov 122012
 

Although the lecture in question was one with a specific guest speaker, there have been many guest speakers in, organised by both the course and by Nerve. I will concentrate mostly on Martyn Lee’s lecture, but will touch on others as they all gave good insight into working in the industry. Martyn Lee was the [...]

8 October – The role of Producer

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Oct 082012
 

In this session, we looked at the role of the radio producer. We started by looking at what we thought the role of producer was, and what we might have done already in possible producing capacities. These covered jobs as fixing things when things go wrong; organising features, setting up interviews and pre-produced packages; working [...]

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