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Off The Wall Post
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Welcome to Off The Wall Post, featuring Dan Biddle, Kat Sommers and Barry Pilling. Each episode we cast our irreverent eyes across the best of social media, new media, mobile and the web.
Episodes
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Google web experiments, Gaga fans get more space to go gaga, and History Pins
Off The Wall Post delves into some cool web apps - Google's Chrome browser web experiments that teleport you to bakeries and miniature parks across the globe, lets you bang drums in London's Science Museum and, coolest of all, sends your portrait to robots endlessly drawing and erasing faces in…
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Samuel Pepys, Sweden tweets and the craziest photo app yet (ft. Phil Gyford, curator of Pepysdiary.com)
After nine years and five months, Phil Gyford finally uploaded the last entry of Samuel Pepys Diary to his epic blogging project Peypsdiary.com. A side project for this brilliant web developer, we talk to Phil about his labour of love: the process, the audience it built, its move to Twitter and…
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A picture can post a thousand tweets ft. Chris Floyd, Photographer, 140 Characters
Photographer Chris Floyd decided to turn his relationships on Twitter into a photography exhibition (and then a book) called 140 Characters. Dan went to meet Chris at a book signing event in The Big Green Bookshop and talked to Chris about the book, the project and his exploration of Twitter and...
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Sex, Privacy and Serendipity with Aleks Krotoski
Dan and Kat are joined by journalist, academic, podcaster and presenter, Aleks Krotoski to discuss the topics of her forthcoming book: Untangling The Web. Attitudes and behaviours around Sex and Privacy are the big changes that the web has wrought upon humanity, but there's a real sense that...
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Cookiegeddon, Microsoft gets socialish and Polaroid struggles on
Kat, Dan and Barry chew over the meaty digital and social issues of the day: what ARE cookies? Are they evil, naughty or necessary? Is Microsoft's new social network So.cl actually a social network or some weird search meets pinterest meets delicious thing? Is Polaroid's iphone app too little…
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Building brilliant online offers for Big Entertainment TV audiences (ft. Tom Dolan, Head of Entertainment ITV.com)
Head of Entertainment for ITV.com, Tom Dolan joins Off The Wall Post to share his insights and talk telly and online - the partnership of big entertainment shows, audiences and online. What are the opportunities for TV to add value to the 2screening / online audience? And how to keep a light…
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Defending The Novel in the Digital Age (ft. Lloyd Shepherd, author of The English Monster)
Novelist and author of The English Monster, Lloyd Shepherd, joins Off The Wall Post to discuss his close-up experience with pirates, publishing and the changes and challenges facing the novel in the digital age. Barry gets excited, along with the rest of the Kickstarter community, about a watch;...
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Gaming in the UK, nostalgic emails and Bazza through the Google Glass (ft. Dr Jo Twist, CEO of UKIE)
We love a bit of interactive entertainment on Off The Wall Post, so we're delighted to talk to the awesome Dr Jo Twist - CEO of UKIE (United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment Association) about games, playfulness, demographics and the promise the UK Games Industry holds for young people hoping to...
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How to tweet and build personality for TV shows, brands and dolphins (ft Dave Levin - @the_dolphin_pub and @bbcthevoiceuk)
It's all the rage for brands and TV shows to have Twitter feeds, but how many of them actually have Twitter personalities you'd want to follow? The ones that Dave Levin writes do! With a host of majorly successful Twitter accounts to his name, including The Dolphin Pub, Channel Four's BattleFront...
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Listen with Pinterest as we ride a Cowbird to jail for a joke
Image tagging service, Pinterest, has received a lot of tech press since it gained a staggering 12 Million users in 2011 and looks set to continue being huge in social media in 2012. Kat, Dan and Barry sign in and pin, then dig deeper into the practical and commercial uses of Pinterest, and…
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Web comics and the difference between for free and for fun (ft. Timothy Winchester, creator of People I Know)
Timothy Winchester's People I know is a wonderful, quirky web comic that's been bringing joy to readers for years. Timothy joins Dan, Barry and Kat to talk about his hobby-turned-bedroom industry that moves between the internet and hard copy sales across the world. Kat returns to the podcast this...
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Social Lives, Social Deaths and the stats of Social Gaming
Kat's away, leaving Off The Wall Post to dig into the stats provided by Who Are Social Gamers to discover that only two things in this life are certain: death and Barry's insatiable desire to create a quiz out of an infographic. Dan discusses the interesting case of This Is How You Die - a tumblr...
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Television is the second screen (ft. Mark Sorrell, Head of Games, Screenpop)
Television and digital media have been obsessing over two screen (#2screen) synergies for ages now - thinking about audience attention and behaviour in a world where they have laptops, mobiles and tablets open on their laps offering alternative, social media treats to detract (or complement) the...
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Ep20 Christmas Special - Drinking to the past, the present and the future of digital media
Fuelled largely by Pringles, Celebrations, jellybeans and beer, Kat, Barry and Dan slap a Dickensian motif onto the podcast. Looking to the past, present and future of digital and social media. Photovine, Flickr, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Facebook mobile phones, Gowalla, 3D TV, Siri…
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Opening up Zeebox and finding kittens
Dual Screen iPad and web app Zeebox is fresh off the production line and causing a stir. Dan's got himself an iPad and has been playing along to the branded TV special E4's Desperate Scousewives. Is this the future of social television...? Barry makes the case against Frictionless Sharing with...
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Episode 18: Raptured Captured - the making of a web series (ft. Heather Taylor, writer-director Raptured TV)
Raptured is a six-part online drama that started airing on YouTube, Blip.TV, Vimeo and beyond on 21 October 2011. Writer and Director Heather Taylor joins Off The Wall Post to explain the series that upgrades the humans that got left behind when The Rapture happened. Heather describes the funding...
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Concerning Commuting, The Art of War and the genius of Humblebrag (ft. Brendan Nelson, Digital Strategist and blogger)
How do you get a seat on a crowded commuter train? How do you get your blog posts to go viral? Turns out the two questions have the same answer...! Digital Strategist and blogger Brendan Nelson joins Off The Wall Post to discuss the modern warfare that is getting a seat on the train and the…
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Mash-up breakdowns, mind-blowing stats and forgetting how to remember
What's better than an awesome music mash-up? How about an awesome music mash-up breakdown that you can watch unfold in front of you while it rocks your world! Kat, Dan and Barry break out the smoking hot tunes of Girl Talk and Daft Punk to marvel at the visualisations of mash-ups online. How many...
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Ep15 - QR, missus! or QR Codes, Digital Advertising and Frictionless Sharing (ft. Roo Reynolds, Wieden + Kennedy LDN)
Off The Wall Post is joined by the brilliant Roo Reynolds - Head of Emerging Platforms at Wieden + Kennedy London (and formerly podcaster of Shift Run Stop). Roo discusses the new opportunites for advertisers and brands in the digital space and brings his own digital bugbear to light: QR codes -...
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Ep14 - Facebook ads: the medium is the people is the message
What happened when Off The Wall Post took out a Facebook ad? Kat, Barry and Dan muse upon Facebook's page advertising: the targeting. the cost and the effectiveness. And in the process of wondering about the engagement possibly insult everybody who's liked us recently! We love you all really! If...
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There goes the Wikihood (plus Matt Locke on TV genres and social media)
Barry Pilling returns to find not only did we treat last week's guest, Storythings' Matt Locke, to Pringles and biscuits, we also saved up extra material to add to this week's podcast. This second part of Matt Locke's conversation with Dan and Kat works through the issues facing TV productions...
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Episode 12 - Telling stories and listening to 2-screen audiences (ft. Matt Locke - Storythings)
This week Off The Wall Post are joined by multiplatform storytelling master, Matt Locke - head of Storythings and driving force behind one of digital media’s favourite conferences: The Story. Taking full advantage of Matt’s decade of online experience with BBC Online, Channel Four Education and...
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Upsetiquette and social media angst - a problem shared is a problem podcast
Episode 11 is a special edition covering a multitude of social media etiquette issues brought to us by followers of the podcast. Off The Wall Post invited the listeners to share their worries and woes around social media and Kat, Dan and Barry set to analysing and exorcising those digital demons…
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Hell is other circles
Off The Wall Post hits double figures and kicks off remedying some of the skewiff guesses we made about Google+ in the last episode. We've been in it (to win it) for a couple of weeks now; Kat, Barry and Dan give their more informed opinion on the biggest thing to hit social media in years. We…
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Episode 9 - Kat minus Google Plus equals... Animals being dicks
Kat returns from holiday, jetlagged and furious at the lack of Google+ in her life. Making do with hearsay and Mashable JPegs we take a look at Google's new social network and what it may or may not bring to our lives. With a small detour into the glorious Tumblr that is Animals Being Dicks.…
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Episode 8 - Transmedia F**k Yeah! (ft Dave Green of Bafta)
While the Kat's away the transmedia mice have a play, as Barry and Dan are joined in the pod by Dave Green of Bafta. Dave organises games and transmedia events for Bafta and came in to atalk about the forthcoming Transmedia London meet-up, as well as the state of cross-platform narratives today....
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Episode 7 - Strictly Come Timedancing (ft. Arivind Abraham and Ali Maggs of Chaos Created)
A bumper edition of Off The Wall Post was joined by Arivind Abraham and Ali Maggs of Chaos Created - an innovative UK start-up creating transmedia stories and interactive narratives. Their latest project - TimeDancer - weaves a time travelling mystery across app-isodes on Windows Mobile Phones…
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Episode 6 - Binaural curious...? (ft. Trevor Klein, Digital Producer: Papa Sangre and The NightJar)
This week Trevor Klein joined the Off The Wall Post team to discuss Something Else's remarkable audio-only games Papa Sangre and The Night Jar (available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). Trevor explains binaural sound and the the team consider the benefits of constraints on creativity. Other…
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Episode 5 - a trip down Memolane
This week we talk about not talking about Twitter; we discuss the National Trust' Farmville made real: MyFarm; Barry creates a new Radiohead album using a 16x16 square web app; and we discover the social media timeline MemoLane reaches the parts other social content aggregators fail to reach.…
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Episode 4: a golden age of novelty without commitment
Kat, Dan and Barry discuss Google +1, the search giant's latest attempt to add a social edge to their game; will it work, or is it another ill-thought folly doomed to failure? Dan brings some hard numbers to bear on Twitter's user stats and uncovers a few social media accounts that the team have...
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Episode 3 - Living in Color
Topics of the week are Facebook status update anxiety in teens; Facebook Questions bringing us few answers to our social needs and the latest photo-sharing app - Color. The smart phone app Color caused quite a stir in tech and social media circles - mainly because of its massive funding and...
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Episode 2 - Geolocation: time to check out?
Geolocation-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places are all the rage, but how social or useful are they really? Dan's close checking into the corner to lose his Foursquare religion, while Kat says: who cares? Foursquare is NOT where it's at - services like Google…
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Episode 1 - Charity begins at phone
Welcome to the first episode of Off The Wall Post, featuring Dan Biddle, Kat Sommers and Barry Pilling. Each episode we cast our irreverent eyes across the best of social media, new media, mobile and the web. This week: Charity Begins At Phone - we look at the ways in which charities are emerging...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Off The Wall Post, featuring Dan Biddle, Kat Sommers and Barry Pilling. Each episode we cast our irreverent eyes across the best of social media, new media, mobile and the web.
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