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David Hooper @davidhooper.bsky.social · 1d

IS THIS YOUR PODCAST? Do you receive "anonymous" voicemails and rerecord them in order to keep a caller's anonymity? 🎤

If not, do you know of podcasts that do this?

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 1d

These are pretty cool. An e-ink bus countdown sign in #Brisbane - didn’t know these existed.

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 2d

Indeed. Lots of good reasons for that. But not overseas until now.

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 2d

BBC Radio appears to have almost entirely disappeared from TuneIn in Australia (and, I gather, Malaysia). My presets have a regional restriction notice on them - and search for these stations gives nothing in response.

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 3d

It’s fascinating over on LinkedIn, where radio professionals are falling over themselves to tell me why I’m wrong here.

James Cridland @james.crid.land · 3d

You've switched quickly from "BUT THE KIDS LIKE IT" to "THE KIDS SHOULDN'T BE LISTENING"!

Not sure you've understood the wider point... but then, I realise I'm arguing with a chicken who doesn't have the gumption to argue under their real name, so I'll leave it there

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 3d

Here's the unbiased and independent BBC News, reporting the success of a BBC podcast at the British Podcast Awards, and leaving the actual "Podcast of the Year" at the awards to the fourth paragraph. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Traitors: Uncloaked victorious at the British Podcast Awards

The Traitors companion podcast, The Traitors: Uncloaked, has continued the franchises success by taking home two prizes at the British Podcast Awards.

www.bbc.com

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 3d

I believe that @johnspurlock.com was considering how to do that - and which types of chapters they use. I think the complication is that it would be nice to see who does JSON chapters but NOT ID3 chapters, etc, and so that gets hard to visualise.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10d

It's not a 'Visualised Podcast'. It's a lazy chatshow.

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 4d

More “toilet humour” that the kids apparently enjoy… on free to air FM radio

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 4d

Aus govt: we’re going to block all social media for under 16s

Also Aus govt: 12 breaches of obscenity in 2025, but fine for Kyle & Jackie O to play “guess from the sound who from our team is taking a piss” while children are being driven to school.

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/ki...

#auspol

A transcript of K&J’s show, from an official ACMA document

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 5d

Do it!

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 5d

Thank you to @mediasteve.bsky.social I've reviewed my ridiculously geeky radio over here. It's quite the device! Now to add DAB+ to it...

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/re...

Review: Deepelec DP-666 radio receiver

The most geeky radio there is

james.cridland.net

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 5d

The Podnews Weekly Review just hit 250,000 downloads. Congratulations to producer and co-host @samsethi.co.uk and thank you to all at Buzzsprout for being our sponsor. Here’s to the next quarter of a million!

weekly.podnews.net

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 5d

It’s amazing what you can do with a website these days.

messenger.abeto.co

Messenger

It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

messenger.abeto.co

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 6d

That made almost as much sense to me as the rather odd fact that one of the cinemas showing this is in… Didsbury. I couldn’t find any reason why Didsbury had been chosen.

Also, I liked how I can’t even view the CineWorld website outside the UK.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d

Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...

Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack

Vast majority of factories of nation’s most popular beer have stopped work this week

www.ft.com

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 7d

Here's the same view, but on the website, not the app.

I do wonder what the BBC is playing at... (or, more accurately, not playing at...)

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 7d

On the BBC (international) website, about a third of BBC Radio 4 is now available for catch-up, including Today.

Yet, on the BBC (international) app - mobile is where most radio listening takes place, not desktop - there still isn't a single link in the schedule pages to catch-up content.

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Podnews podcasting news @podnews.net · 9d

Bill Nighy Tackles Your Questions In A Brand New Podcast https://podnews.net/press-release/ill-advised

Bill Nighy Tackles Your Questions In A Brand New Podcast

‘iIl-advised by Bill Nighy’ is produced by Alice Williams and Ciara Gregory for EYEPOD Studios and brought to you by Acast. The podcast will be available for advertising opportunities via Acast.

podnews.net

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 9d

I went with voipvoip.com - US $2 per month for free incoming. Works nicely on my Yealink SIP hardware phone on my desk, theoretically.

VoIP Service Provider - VoIPVoIP

VoIP Service Provider for SIP Trunk SIP Account Virtual Phone Number and Mobile VoIP Service with no term contract.

voipvoip.com

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 10d

I don’t know if anyone will use it, but I’m very aware that folks in the US find calling an international number is a big unknown - so I’ve got myself a US number. Hopefully good for LA-based folks (where I can talk in their afternoon) at least.

james.cridland.net/contact/

Contacting me

James Cridland's email, telephone number and diary details

james.cridland.net

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 10d

Odd radio advertising, as one country gives up on radio awards and another renames its Academy to remove the "r" word... Radioland is my weekly radio newsletter

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/ac...

No more awards in Australia; no more Radio in the UK Academy

And, what the BBC Press Office is telling a former Trustee

james.cridland.net

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 14d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 11d

I’d quite like a US telephone number. A SIP number would be best if possible (I have a SIP hardware telephone on my desk anyway). Does anyone here have any recommendations? I use SIPgate in the UK.

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