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Ewan Spence

@ewanspence.co.uk

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Scottish storyteller in online, media and tech; podcasting, smartphones, music, Eurovision, retro gaming, Scotland's baseball scorer, (he/him), #freelance #cats #podcaster #smartphones #forbes #eurovision #music #EliteDangerous ewanspence.co.uk/blog

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · Feb 21

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5h

"The Battle In Seattle* went (checks) fifteen??! Wowsers, but I can watch this back without the tension I would have had last night.

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

I fear that Annalisa will never win Sanremo, and never reach the ESC stage. Just one of many community favourites that are destined to be footnotes in the ESC history; even if they are a huge part of their nation's musical odyssey.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Do they come with a paperclip?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Not even a "write-in" box, just a long list that skips over the moment the BBC nearly sent punk rock to ESC in the seventies? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yrr...

BBC 1978 3 Door In My Face UK

YouTube video by peter walsh ESC

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

A curious few days coming up, as the latest "What Needs Done Today And This Week" notebook is full, and I'm ready to start another one... The amount of "wear, tear, and patina" on the old cover reflects the last two years.

Two orange A6-sized notebooks, one is two years old and is a much darker orange due to wear and tear.

Two orange A6 notebooks, one is blank and one shows a completed task list.

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 2d

Friay Night Baseball looks fun for you lot as well!

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 2d

And at some point that won't be enough for publishers and are forced to run Amazon every month.

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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · 3d

Well, that works for me.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Isn't that like 95% of the work that the interns used to do?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

a man in a suit says it 's war in front of a tv screen

Alt: a man in a suit says it 's war in front of a tv screen

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Now, can you test this with accompaniment from a Stylophone?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Always worth testing with something you definitely know the answer to, when you know the mistakes in "how did x work" you trust "how did y work?"a little bit less (and rightly so).

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

I see what you did there...

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Open source "ethos" ... yep, sigh.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 4d

I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 4d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 4d

Martin Fry.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 6d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

It's surely "New York Mining Disaster 1941."

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

/me waves. That's the UK game on Sky just now!

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

The open nature of podcasting is a benefit and a curse. You don't, as a listener, have to give up second-by-second analysis and demographic data if you are in the RSS/Open space. Move to a proprietary client like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds; anonimity is lost, control goes to the megacorps

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

...and the full episode for comparison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2R0...

My Cat's Tale - Morgan And His Wardrobe

YouTube video by My Cat's Tale

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

Exactly! Here's how I did it on My Cat's Tale, directly lifted out of the cold open and run as a YouTube Short www.youtube.com/shorts/p0fmN...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

Oh and a little bonus, if it's a bit of a preview, or some quotes from the episode, it makes a fantastic thirty-second trailer for Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc, with minimal increased resource cost in your production flow.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 5d

There are lots of ways to do it "This is FernPod Number 27," "It's Monday the seventh of August," "Tonight, on Top Gear," etc. The big advantage? It engages the brain of the listeners, have I heard this one, ooh, this is new, what happens next? etc.