Out of retirement for special occasions only.

Special tartanpodcast to mark the release of Finniston’s new album ‘Organised for HiFi’.

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I review, in brief, how my trip to Edinburgh last week went.

• AICR
• Cure for cancer, Seamus Martin
• Personal challenge and social awkwardness
• Scientists with the cold
• Getting back to the day job
• Pro podcaster

Apologies for the quality of the sound in parts of this podcast, hopefully it doesn’t distract too much.

I’ve compressed the audio to reduce the file size.
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This is a LONG podcast, almost 1 hour. I fairly rabbit on…

• Traveling along the M8 to Edinburgh
• Another podcast production job, this time for AICR
• Model coverage of an event via Learning & Teaching Scotland
• Ewan’s comments
• AICR’s committee meeting and how they decide who to grant funds to
• Staying at the Sheraton Grand Hotel
• Hoping to make a Tartan Stories podcast on how a small, Scottish-based cancer charity spends it’s money
• Role of producers
• Rob Dolby and Top of the Pods
• You know what your listeners want
• Texture, flavour, look and feel of podcast is under your control
• You must have control over this as the producer of the content
• Podcast production is a cottage industry
• Standards you need to adhere to as a producer
• I’ve put my thumb print on all the podcasts I produce even though the subject matter isn’t always the same
• Producers deserve the credit and should protect and cherish the role
• Football podcasts
• The Game
• Football Weekly
• Change of producers
• James Richardson
• Football Italia
• Shopping and photos in Edinburgh, comments welcome
• Apple store story
• Stairway photo
• TUAW post
• Clark’s BBC Tech article
• NY Times (sorry, no link)
• Photography and art at school, Scotvec Module
• Princess Street, Lothian Road
• Ian Rankin
• John Rebus
• BarCamp Edinburgh
• Corstorphine
• Playing 5-a-side football
• Heriot-Watt Uni
• Vladimir Romanov and Heart of Midlothian
• Winter holiday and Brad
• Walking Tess
• Murrayfield
• Arriving at the hotel
• MacBook Pro Fund - on the right of the site