Sidepodcast

On his site today, DoctorVee offers a fine analysis of a recent in depth Mosley interview conducted by Adam Parsons of the BBC. It’s well worth a read, but there’s one point I’d like to add after watching the video myself.

It’s clearly not coincidental that the only visible prop used in the shot is a scale model of a Ferrari, Max appears more than happy to face the FIA’s Ferrari International Assistance criticisms head on. What I do find odd though, is the decision to display the back-end of the car.

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The second week in a row in which we feature a guest, and this time there’s some insight into turning old technologies into the future.

Intro

There’s this new idea about gathering together news stories and separating them into those that have been good and those that have been bad. Where have we heard that before?

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for Ferrari and Takuma Sato as they’re both sorting out their drives for next year, but a bad week for Nurburgring and Valencia as the organisers have some work to do.

News and Views

A quick catchup of testing this week at Monza, which Renault’s determination to go slowly whatever the costs, and Force India possibly evaluating their drivers. We talk to Scott Woodwiss about his thoughts on this season compared to others, the regulation changes, and how F1 can get back to America.

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Amongst all the chaos of the back-to-back races we’ve just enjoyed, Christine somehow managed to fit in an interview about Sidepodcast for BBC’s Radio Five Live. The show, called For the Love of Pod was broadcast in the UK yesterday (Easter bank holiday Monday) and discussed the world of podcasts and podcasting.

Presented by Radio 1’s Colin Murray, and featuring the likes of podcasting stalwarts Ask a Ninja and Adam Curry, the hour long show took a look at how podcasting is changing the way we consume media and how it might shape broadcasting in the future.

Christine managed to take up almost two minutes of prime BBC air time, which is a pretty impressive feat considering who else was on the bill.

Here are some of the the best bits of her interview:

Hopefully we won’t get into too much trouble for playing that. To redeem ourselves slightly, might we suggest that the full show can be downloaded as part of the Pod’s and Blogs podcast, and we encourage you to listen to the whole thing.

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