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Welcome to Indigo Whisky -025 for the 19Nov2007

And today the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their 60th Anniversary What Diamonds they are.

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But of course the great thing with a podcast is that you can just rewind and replay, skip that lullaby and kick off where your head hit the pillow, last time

Recording: you cannot do that on the radio.

Well I am recording this after a visit to my mum at the weekend. Although she lives less than 70 miles away from Wokingham, with the state of traffic in the UK nowadays it always takes around two and a half hours to do the journey one way, whether via the motorway, with the M1, the main freeway from London to the North undergoing a multi year widening plan with many miles of contraflow and a 50 mph limit, which reminds me of the US with its mostly 55 limit or going cross country through small villages and towns with speed humps and 20 mph limits. I was thinking on this with the opening of the new high speed rail line and newly and apparently impressively refurbished St Pancras Station, I could be in Paris in that same two and half hours.

This week has been bright but much colder, maybe the new moon brought the change, we had had heavy frosts last week, as those of you who follow my co-patriot Wokinghamite on Twitter will already know. Yes, I am referring to Neville Hobson who together with his co-podcaster Shel Holtz has written the definitive businessman's guide to podcasting entitled "How to Do Everything with Podcasting". Their book was published recently and I have provide a link to the book on Amazon in the shownotes. If you purchase the book via this link you will be helping to support the inWokingham podcast.

Talking of businesses banning blogging and other web 2.0 communication systems, I was chatting to a acquaintance who works in corporate land, who was telling me that her company had blocked such access. I referred her to Neville's and Shel's For Immediate Release For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast that addresses this very issue. Although coming from a PR and marketing direction I believe the podcast appeals to a much wider audience, Shel, as well as having his own blog, has also set-up

Stopblocking.org

A campaign to end business blocking of employee access to the Net — Stop Blocking! as a site designed to serve as a hub information resource for those who believe the benefits of providing access far outweigh the risks.

Just think, you want to recruit and retain your best and your brightest, don't you, and don't surveys tell us that those are exactly the ones who expect and require social networking and use it as a business tool, just as their predecessors used the fax. I remember the same fuss was made over email and now don't most businesses rely on it, does anyone even know what a Telex machine is any more?. You may want to freeze yourself in a previous timewarp, but don't do it to your company, or where is your future income going to come from?

So you may have guessed that I joined in using Twitter this week.

Twitter is sort of online miniblog, with texts limited to the same length as SMS msgs and indeed SMS is key part of the Twitter platform, but good use can be made of Twitter without SMS just using a web browser and that is what I am trying out.

So you can follow InWokingham.com at Twitter.com/inWokingham I don't have any mobile use yet as I don't have a unlim SMS plan, roll on the release of the Nokia N810, I'm waiting on this update of the N800 internet tablet to ugrade my phone, it looks as though it has all the features I need, VOIP, wifi, browser, open OS, camera and much more. I hear Adam Curry went to Finland to try and do a deal with Nokia , interesting.

After drug sniffing, mine sniffing and truffle sniffing dogs in sweden are being trained to sniff out rotten utility poles. Radio Sweden podcast 2007-11-08 – guide tells of how a training school lost a contract to train guide dogs and and instead built a successful business training the dogs to sniff out rotten telegraph poles.

I had a nice note from DC sills saying she enjoyed my podcast, thanking me for including her music and commenting on the how apposite the 'You don't need an IPOD' track is.

I thank DC for her support of podcasting and it is easy to return the gift when such great songs are made available by artists.

Raised in the piney woods of Central Louisiana, DC Sills taught herself to play the guitar by watching Austin City Limits. Through time, practice, and hours of recorded ACL shows, she became good enough to play rhythm guitar in a bluegrass band in high school. Influenced by the local bluegrass and gospel music scene and through the tutelage of writers like Nanci Griffith and John Prine (via Austin City Limits), DC's songwriting career was born. Because of these influences, it is often hard to categorize DC's music. Is it country, folk, gospel or bluegrass? That is for the listener to decide.

Who does she sound like? She puts it this way, "Mostly, I just sound like me, DC, but there have been comparisons made to: Tracy Chapman, Maura O'Connell and even Cheryl Wheeler...I can only hope they are true!"

As a songwriter and performer DC feels both experienced and naive. She sums it up this way, "Sometimes it is a very scary thing, songwriting, telling people's stories, often turning fact into fiction, to protect the innocent and not so innocent. I don't know why I was chosen to have these words and melodies appear in my head but I am thankful and grateful."

DC's first CD, Always a Tourist, was released in September 2005 was a six song collection of songs that are a tribute to "people met, people lost and people I just dreamed up" and is an eclectic blend of country, folk & bluegrass. Her follow up CD, "Better When I'm Loved" , is her 1st full length CD that includes 11 original tunes. The songs are personal, inspirational and many are true! One dollar from every "Better When I'm Loved" CD will go to Louisiana non-profit organizations, Save NOLA Now and the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA).

DC's song "I'll Wait Forever" is included in the Independent film "Big Dreams in Little Hope" .

One of DC's favorite songs she's written, "Another Reason to Drink" was included on the ShutEye Records compilation CD "The United States of Americana vol. 5" .

DC has been chosen by KOA Kampgrounds to be a featured entertainer for the KOA Kampertainment program.



DC is a BMI affliated artist.

Discography Always a Tourist (2005) Better When I'm Loved (2007)

Available on-line at CDBaby.com/dcsills ,CD Baby& DCSills.com

Also at Amazon.com Always a Tourist (2005) although currently on back order.

Music: We'll Be Fine DC Sills

in Wokingham news the Christmas lights are going up, and the temp christmas shops have opened in those units vacated for the the Peach street redevelopment, that has been delayed again, again.

Wokingham Winter Fayre Carnival Wokingham Winter Carnival Sunday 2nd December 2007, 10am - 5pm With Street Craft, Fun Fair, Food and Trade Stalls. Non-stop Entertainment. Carnival Procession leaves Shute End 3.30pm Click to view the Winter Carnival poster in full (in another window). Non-stop Entertainment - FREE ENTRY - FREE PROGRAMME Proceeds to be donated to: Wokingham Royal British Legion, Mencap (Wokingham Branch) and children's charity Peapods

At Montague House in Broad St the IMMO is indeed open, owned by the Prezzo chain the food seems similar, but they provide a takeaway service for any menu item. No local input unfortunately as all management, marketing and press is handled from 'Head Office', which I think is sad when they occupy a unique building in a unique town, I had hoped that the age of corporate blandness was receding with even the likes of MacD's adopting a more local is local approach. I certainly seems that the question of whether there is demand for more Italian restaurants is answered by the queues outside the real Prezzo and the need to squeeze customers into locally owned places like Sorrento's.

The Cantley Fireworks proved popular and raised good money for there charities, Which is topical as last Friday was the Children in need fund raiser on BBC TV. An annual event that combines fun and games around the tv regions with celebrity guests such as Kylie Minogue. Another feature was a special edition of Dragon's Den with Junior entrepreneurs pitching for funding. It was nice to see the BBC make the Junior Dragon' Den part of Children in need available on youtube, Children in Need on YouTube.com

Also on the charity front, Nat Del Conte on textra pointed me in the direction World Food Programme Word Game. Great fun, a challenge and also good for the soul.

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Postscript:

In the show I mention my desire for a Nokia N810 Internet tablet. Well, unfortunately no news of availability in the UK yet, but Adam Curry must have the same desire as he has linked to the Amazon US site for the same product. And he hecked it out at Nokia in Finland last week. They are out of stock at the moment, but I include a link below for our US visitors or for those heading to New York, NY for some Christmas shopping, a grat deal with the Dollar at over two to the pound.

DC Sills CD available for US listeners on Amazon.com ( although on back order as of 19Nov07 )

If you are interested in learning more about how to podcast, whether for yourself , a client or internally within your company, I can recommend Neville and Shel's book. Neville lives in Wokingham, and Shel in San Francisco and they produce a twice weekly marketing and PR podcast which I feel is much wider interest than many would think. Find their site HERE









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