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Once a month I record a podcast for Zen Internet that is dedicated to the latest news and developments in the internet world.  I subsequently syndicate this podcast on my blog with Zen’s kind permission as The Internet Monthly. However, things often don’t always go smoothly during the recording process!

As with most things in life, things don’t always go to plan and recording podcasts is no exception to the rule; most of the time recording sessions progress relatively uneventfully. However, every now and then Gremlins creep into the system and the resulting mistakes of out-takes and bloopers are kept for posterity and for your seasonal amusement. Enjoy…

Podcast Bloopers 2010

The Internet Monthly – Podcast Bloopers 2010:

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Thanks

As 2010 fades into 2011 and another year begins, I’d like to thank you all for following my blog over the last year and listening to the monthly podcast.

Keep tuned for more of the same next year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out why Business Link offices will close, get practical advice for a first-time social media marketing strategy and discover two approaches to testing for happy landings on your Web site.

You can also learn how to boot out even the worst virus infections with a Windows bypass and try Blekko – the new top three search engine.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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Once a nerd always a nerd? Is nerdiness something you can shake off, or something you can embrace and transform into a nerdy type of coolness, or is it something you’re stuck with for life?

At school you’re likely to fall into one of two peer groups; the cool dudes, or the nerds. Without shadow of a doubt, I fell into the latter category. However, being a nerd at school maybe not such a bad thing, perhaps in the long run it’s actually for the best (although at the time it certainly wouldn’t appear so). Things change! Just as fashions change and what was once considered seriously un-cool suddenly becomes the height of fashion, so can the fortunes of the nerd.

However, just as some fashions never become trendy, so unfortunately some nerds never become cool and are destined for a life of abject nerdiness. As with most things in life though, things are never black and white, there are just infinitely varying degrees of shades of grey. So, perhaps there is also a nerd purgatory, a halfway house of mediocrity between coolness and nerdiness, a place where the majority of us probably reside.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about getting 64GB on a postage stamp drive or in gold around your neck, driverless cars from Google and a plan to quarantine infected PCs from Microsoft.

You can also learn about three extra site maps for your Web site to gain more traffic, how to read even the most obscure attached files and instantly publish text and Excel data on the Web.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about business grants to recruit more Silver Surfers and how to map car journeys and calculate fuel costs instantly.

You can also learn about bio-petrol from Scotland’s whisky makers, the death of the world’s least-cool search engine and the ‘social suicide’ site that logs into your networking accounts and destroys everything.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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