Every month I record an audio newsletter podcast for Zen Internet. This podcast is an audio version of their monthly e-mail newsletter that they send out to the majority of their customers. During the recording process however, things don’t always go according to plan!

Unfortunately, for the last two months I have been unable to record the monthly podcast, as I have been stuck in bed with ill health. Hence, I have not got quite as many bloopers or out-takes this year, for your your seasonal amusement, as in previous years.

Added to this, Winnie (our usual voice) has recently had a little baby; so with her new family addition she was not able to attend every recording session. Thankfully, Sue stepped into the breach on a these occasions to save the day, which helps account for the different voice with the South African accent.

I hope you enjoy our bloopers and manage have a little laugh at our expense…

Podcast Bloopers 2011

The Internet Monthly – Podcast Bloopers 2011:

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Thank You

As 2011 drifts into 2012 and we start the yearly cycle again, I would like to thank you for visiting my blog and listening to the podcast and hope to see you back here again in the New 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 how to make sure your name won’t be attached to an xxx domain, learn about computerised pot plants and the odd affair of the Minister, his Facebook wall and Jacobaea vulgaris.

You can also hear about ghost-town jibes as Google+ opens to all-comers, road works and holes you can’t fall into by the UK’s leading pavement artist, and ‘font art’.

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.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – October 2011:

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This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. SPACE AGE SICK BAY– Real time monitoring of diseases
   • www2.le.ac.uk/departments/cardiovascular-sciences/research/population-research-and-clinical-trials/emergency-medicine-group/research/illness-identification/ddu-leicester/ddu
2. GAMERS ADVANCE AIDS RESEARCH– Computer models enzymes
   • www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nsmb.2119.html
   • www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf
3. WIRELESS TECH TO SOLVE SIDS– Remote monitoring of sleep patterns
   • unews.utah.edu/news_releases/catching-a-breath-wirelessly
4. MINISTER FACED OFF FACEBOOK– MP backs down on Facebook
   • www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/19/richard-benyon-ragwort
5. AS OTHERS SEE YOU– Search your professional profile as an employer
   • www.identified.com
6. TRIPLE-X DOMAIN OPT-OUT OFFERED– Protect your modesty
   • www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/07/triple_x_domain_open_for_business
   • www.icmregistry.com/launch/sunrise-b
7. LIMITERS COME OFF SPONSORED TWEETS– Adverts in Twitter
   • battellemedia.com/archives/2011/09/the_future_of_twitter_ads.php
8. TWEET TRADEMARK BATTLE– “Tweets” in a trademark battle
   • blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2011/09/twitter-in-battle-for-%E2%80%9Ctweet%E2%80%9D-trademark
9. GOOGLE+ UNLOCKED– Google+ opened to everyone
   • googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html
10. TUMBLEWEED TALES– Is Google+ really a ghost town?
    • www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/09/google-social-media-upstart-worse-than-a-ghost-town262.html
11. MANAGING GOOGLE+– How to manage or cancel your Google accounts
    • www.pcworld.com/article/240281/manage_google_accounts.html
12. GOOGLE DRUGS BUST– Google fined for advertising foreign drugs
    • www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Google-Shells-Out-500M-to-DoJ-Over-Shady-Drug-Ads-73144.html
    • www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/21/google_warned_over_illegal_drug_ads
13. COMPUTERISED POT PLANTS– Growing plants the high-tech way
    • clickandgrow.com
14. FROM PAPER TO PC– A digital pen to directly capture your creations
    • inkling.wacom.eu/en
15. FOR ART LOVERS– Pavement art in perspective
    • sunseven.hubpages.com/hub/Incredible_Beever
    • designfestival.com/19-unusual-examples-of-typographical-artwork
16. SARTALICS– A new font to help express sarcasm in e-mails and texts
    • sartalics.com
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZy5zcOyhe4
17. HIT SOUNDS FOR EVs– Sound FX for electric cars
    • www.theengineer.co.uk/1010065.article?cmpid=TE01
18. A READER WRITES– An earlier version of the PC
    • www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/brain
19. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH– Searching more productively?
    • www.searchlion.com

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.

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 how Mac users hide from Facebook and how to get clean away from it; reporting problems to your local council from your mobile and checking online what they spend.

You can also learn how to become an online editor and restore lost works by Charles Dickens and where to get an unforgettable, but still unfathomable online password.

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.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – September 2011:

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Or, download: podcast_sep11.mp3 [21’ 54”, 10MB]

This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. APPLE BLOCKS SALE OF RIVAL TABLET – Apple blocks sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the EU 
   • www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/08/10/apple-wins-temporary-european-ban-on-samsung-tablet-40093657/?s_cid=214
2. GET ON TO THE COUNCIL – App helps to report problems to local councils 
   • www.mycouncilservices.com
   • itunes.apple.com/gb/app/my-council-services-uk/id424163238
3. CIVIL SERVANTS SURFING – Civil servants web browsing habits
   • www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/07/29/beeb-most-popular-site-for-civil-servants
   • www.dft.gov.uk/foi/dft-f0007532
4. GOOGLE GOCOMPARE – Google financial services comparison site
   • www.google.com/advisor/home
5. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PC – The PC was 30 years old in August 2011 
   • www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2011/08/12/happy-30th-birthday-pc/1
   • www.expertreviews.co.uk/pcs/1286518/happy-30th-birthday-pc
6. WINDOWS 7 ON TOP – Windows 7 leading PC OS by end of 2011
   • nl.zdnet.co.uk/vjgHmBDaic/aiabj
7. ROARING START FOR LION – Latest Mac OS selling like hot cakes 
   • www.metro.co.uk/tech/870106-apples-os-x-lion-hits-1million-downloads-in-the-first-day
8. MAC MONITOR – System monitoring tools for the Mac 
   • www.magicansoft.com/magican-monitor.html
9. MAC TO THE FUTURE – Steampunk designs for the Mac
   • www.oldtimecomputer.com/oldtimecomputer/home.html
10. TURNING VISITORS AWAY – Google not supporting older browsers 
    • gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-modern-browsers.html
    • www.delib.co.uk/dblog/ie6-the-facts-1-in-3-of-our-government-clients-still-using-it
11. CLIPPINGS CONVERTOR – Convert Kindle Clippings into other formats 
    • www.clippingsconverter.com
12. RESTORING DICKENS ONLINE – Help to edit Dickens’ journals online 
    • www.djo.org.uk
    • www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/02/vintage-journalism-of-charles-dickens
13. LINK SPOTS FOR WEB PHOTOS – An image manipulation tool
    • www.readwriteweb.com/archives/thinglink_social_objects.php
    • www.thinglink.com
14. EASY SLIDESHOW – Create a quick slideshow to share online
    • www.slidemypics.com
15. FINDING THE FACEBOOK EXIT – How to quit Facebook 
    • newsfeed.time.com/2010/05/14/why-is-it-so-hard-to-delete-your-facebook-account
16. SOCIAL MEDIA SUNSET – The death of social media?
    • www.cringely.com/2011/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-facebook
17. DO NOT DISTURB – Turn off social networking sites on the Mac 
    • anti-social.cc/about
18. WATCH DOCUMENTARIES – Watch Documentaries for free online
    • www.watch-documentaries.com
19. CLASSIC FILMS – The Internet Archive’s Moving Images library
    • www.archive.org/search.php?query=Hitchcock%20AND%20collection%3Amoviesandfilms
    • www.archive.org/details/movies
20. SEARCHING GOOGLE+ – How to search Google+
    • www.billhandy.com/how-to-search-google-plus
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search your local council accounts 
    • local.direct.gov.uk/LDGRedirect/index.jsp?LGSL=1584&LGIL=8

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.

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 if your car is the last of its kind left in Britain, if your printer could make a chocolate bar and whether Switzerland will ban PowerPoint.

You can also learn if Facebook is favouring the over-50s and when is the best time to tweet. Discover how long it is likely to be before humanoid robots can beat your football team and why does the UK’s newest search engine have no answers?

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.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – August 2011:

Download audio file (podcast_aug11.mp3)

Or, download: podcast_aug11.mp3 [26’ 59”, 12.3MB]

This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. LOCAL CRIME MAPS TO ADD MUGSHOTS– Criminal photos go online
   • uk.news.yahoo.com/plans-add-names-faces-crime-maps-041859203.html
   • www.police.uk
2. AMAZON SWALLOWS UK’S BIGGEST ONLINE BOOKSELLER– Amazon buys The Book Depository
   • www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/04/amazon_buys_book_depository
3. CHOCOLATE PRINTER– Scientists invent a printer that prints chocolate
   • www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/videoaudio/corporate/chocolateprinter.aspx
4. CAR COUNTER– Find out how many of your model of car are on UK roads
   • www.howmanyleft.co.uk
5. SCOTLAND’S DOT ON THE NET– Scotland looking to acquire .scot domain
   • dotscot.net
6. FAKE GOODS RULING HITS EBAY– eBay trademark infringements
   • www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/12/ebay-marketplace-sites-trademark-abuse-loreal
7. POWERPOINT POLITICS– Switzerland to ban PowerPoint?
   • www.techeye.net/software/switzerland-demands-powerpoints-death
   • www.techeye.net/software/us-army-declares-war-on-powerpoint
8. ROBOCUP 2011– The Robot football World Cup
   • www.robocup2011.org/en
   • www.cncworld.tv/photos/show/1200.shtml
   • www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlw7EUw9U9A
9. SILVER SURFERS FLOCK TO SOCIAL NETWORKS– Older users dominating social network growth
   • www.ukaop.org.uk/news/over50sleadinguksocialnetworkgrowth2844.html
   • www.ukom.uk.net
10. GOOGLE TRIES BEING SOCIAL AGAIN– Google taking on Facebook
    • googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html
    • www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/index.html
    • www.theregister.co.uk/google_launches_anoher_social_networking_effort
11. NO HIDING PLACE FOR GOOGLE USERS– No private profiles allowed
    • www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/1221/google-delete-private-profiles
12. FIRMS WARNED TO STAY AWAY FROM GOOGLE+– Google+ only for private individuals (for the moment)
    • www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-farm-businesses-out-of-google-plus.html
    • www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/11/google_plus_spam
13. WOMEN DOMINATING SOCIAL SITES– Most social network sites predominantly women
    • www.metro.co.uk/tech/869525-google-turning-pink-as-female-user-numbers-grow
    • www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx
14. TOASTED URLS– A new URL shortening service
    • en-gb.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=217046931647281
    • www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=3286358
15. THE BEST OF TIMES TO TWEET– When is the best time to tweet?
    • www.wolf-howl.com/featured/best-time-tweet
16. WHAT GROUPON MEANS IN NEW ORLEANS– Groupon bad for business?
    • www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/deals-du-jour/Content?oid=1825734
    • www.csindy.com/colorado/deal-a-meal/Content?oid=2266466
17. GROUPON IN THE DOCK ON THE BAY– Groupon sued in San Francisco
    • www.sfbg.com/2011/06/14/groupons-secret
18. 11 MILLION SITES BANNED BY GOOGLE– Subdomains dropped in Google
    • searchengineland.com/google-delists-all-co-cc-domains-from-index-83931
19. BING DYNASTY– Microsoft links with Chinese search engine Baidu
    • www.multilingual-search.com/baidu-signs-deal-for-english-results-in-china-with-microsofts-bing/05/07/2011
20. LOSING TO FACEBOOK– Social media purchases made heavy losses
    • www.fool.co.uk/news/investing/2011/06/30/facebook-creates-94-loss.aspx
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH– A spoof “Murdoch” search engine
    • askmurdoch.co.uk
    • twitter.com/#!/MurdochCreamPie

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.

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 France says “Non” to Facebook, hear about Amazon’s first million-selling vanity author and the new millionaire from Britain’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’.

You can also learn how to add richer snippets and extra mark-up to your Web site; the Irish hotel fighting bad news in Google’s suggestion box and ways to survive a sudden Panda attack.

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.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – July 2011:

Download audio file (podcast_jul11.mp3)

Or, download: podcast_jul11.mp3 [23’ 35”, 10.8MB]

This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. AS YOU LIKE IT– Zen newsletter also in plain text format by request
   • www.zen.co.uk/newsletter
2. UK’S TWEETDECK TAKES TWITTER MILLIONS– Tweetdeck sold for £25M
   • www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13603042
3. GOOGLE BUYS SOCIAL ANALYTICS FIRM– Google buys PostRank
   • techcrunch.com/2011/06/03/google-acquires-postrank-an-analytics-service-for-the-social-web
4. MILLION SELLER INDY E-BOOK– Million self published Kindle books sold
   • gigaom.com/2011/06/20/future-of-media-the-rise-of-the-million-selling-kindle-author
5. SPOTIFY NEARS AMERICAN TOUCHDOWN– Spotify coming to the USA
   • allthingsd.com/20110610/spotify-signs-universal-music-may-really-get-to-the-u-s-after-all
   • www.spotify.com
6. HOTEL SUES OVER SEARCH SUGGESTION– Google being sued again
   • thenextweb.com/google/2011/06/15/irish-hotel-sues-google-over-autocomplete-suggestion
7. FRANCE SAYS “NON” TO FACEBOOK AND TWITTER– French media banned from promoting their Twitter and Facebook accounts
   • www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/06/facebook-and-twitter-mentions-banned-for-french-tv
8. TWITTER BY NUMBERS– Is Twitter mostly hype?
   • www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008437
9. FACEBOOK DOWNTURN– Facebook loosing customers
   • www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-losing-users-in-the-countries-where-it-took-off-first-2011-6
   • www.webpronews.com/has-facebook-peaked-2-2011-06#more
10. TWITTER AND GOOGLE LIKE BUTTONS– Like buttons proliferating
    • www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html
    • twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton
    • www.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/internet/3283511/how-to-use-the-new-twitter-and-google-buttons
11. FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE– Follow all social networks in one click
    • www.fullyfollow.me
12. ADD YOUR ONLINE STORE TO FACEBOOK– Sell your stuff on Facebook
    • www.beetailer.com
13. DOT-BRAND DOMAIN NAMES– New Top Level Domain names
    • www.webkey.com
14. CARDBOARD USB STICKS– Recyclable USB sticks made from cardboard
    • www.artlebedev.com/everything/flashkus
    • www.webkey.com
15. THE FOLDABLE PHONE– An origami pop up phone
    • www.weiidesign.com/Weii%20design%20Ideas/idea1.html
    • www.zen.co.uk/about-us/newsletter-archive.aspx?issue=111
16. ZEN SUPPORT ON THE WEB– Zen’s support website revamped
    • www.zen.co.uk/support
17. FINE TUNING HTML FOR BETTER SEARCH RESULTS– Additional markup
    • schema.org/docs/gs.html
18. ANOTHER SNIPPET SCHEME– Identify your web page authorship
    • www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
19. THE SOCIAL SEARCH EFFECT– Google and Bing’s social favourites
    • www.ovrdrv.com/social-indexing-search-results
20. SURVIVING PANDA– Mitigating Google’s recent algorithmic changes
    • searchenginewatch.com/article/2080032/Top-5-Google-Panda-Update-SEO-Survival-Tips
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH– Search the social networks
    • www.keotag.com

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.