It’s been a busy month for me, I have been in Cardington, DSA (Driving Standards Agency) training centre for the last month. I am now a fully qualified driving examiner, and I start in Rotherham on Tuesday. ( I have to go to the local area centre in Newcastle on Monday)

Anyway, in other new, the next NSD is written, and we should be recording it soon. it has been difficult with me being away and james flood (More about that at james’ blog.) We will be on it soon, I promise.

I will be updating this more often from now on, in fact I will soon be putting pics from my course on here.

I am getting some paper so that I can make static cling window stickers for the North South Divide.

Who is interested in having one? They will be free, as long as you are going to actually put them up somewhere. Advertising you see?

I would also like any ideas that you have for the design, you are a talented lot after all.

Thanks

Hi everyone, james and I have been talking quite a bit lately about getting more listeners.

As it is we appreciate that we have to try and get them out more regularly (Phwoar etc!).

We have thought about sending some bits of the ‘casts to community and hospital radio, so that they can play it out as long as they read out our web address.

I was also thinking about making some window stickers (Not lickers) for cars and house windows, would anyone be interested in NSD merchandise? We would make it at cost, as cheaply as possible.

We also need to break America, we have a few listeners over there, but not many. We are thinking about trying to find some ex pats, any idea how we could do that anyone?

Any help appreciated, together we can take over the world!*

*Well, I don’t really want the world to be honest, I am going to annexe that last piece of pizza though.

Firstly, before I forget, if you are a North South Divide fan and on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2417272239&ref=nf

There is now a North South Divide group on Facebook, join away folks and say hello!

I now have my car, it is very nice I will post more about this when I get more chance to play with it I am sure.

Finally, I am writing the next podcast (No really) and I am pleased with what we have so far. james and I have been talking about ways to increase the amount of listeners that we get, and one idea was to send shortened versions of the NSD ‘casts to community and hospital radio stations. Also I was thinking of making some North South Divide window stickers, (not lickers) any takers? They would of course be either free or very cheap.

Love you, and leave you folks.

Here we are, cool on the heels of the Rock podcast comes Salvage, the latest podcast from the North South Divide.Like that difficult second album syndrome, Salvage took a little longer than we expected to produce, but that was due to james and I arguing and our recreational drugs use.*

As is the usual state of affairs with us, as there has not been a podcast for a while, the next one will be along soon.

This is in low quality 40k, for better quality click the download links below.

 

 Salvage [27:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Good quality:

Salvage in 96k mp3 format - 18.8 Mb

Best Quality:
Salvage in 192k mp3 format - 37.64Mb

*This is not actually true, but the truth is far more dull I am afraid.

Well, in case it helps anyone else I am using Freemind.

It is “mind mapping” or brain storming software, I know, I know. I thought the same but I read a website that said how good it was for piecing together disparate projects. I have to say that it is very simple to use and it has helped me already.

It helps me to see all of the bits of my idea in one place, and I can connect things. It has already saved me loads of paper.

I hope it helps someone else.

Well there is the obvious, the design has changed again. It may again yet until I find one that I am 100% happy with. The old theme had a very odd way of formatting text, which meant that I had to consider how things would be laid out when they appeared on the blog. Not conducive to a writers muse that, is it?

Also you can see, in the post below, how many downloads that we have had. I have just edited it into a table format to make it a bit easier to read.

The next podcast is nearly finished too, everything is recorded, james is going to get it finally edited and the we will release it onto an unsuspecting internet. I am also starting to write the next one, no really! I am changing the style a little, as you will notice when you listen to Salvage, but I am aware that our fans (bless both of them) like us the way that we are, so I am trying to change little bits rather than go for an overhaul.

Flash Ramsbottom is, as ever, still in development hell. I am starting to wish that I hadn’t thought of it. But it does make me laugh.

As a final thing, I am thinking of putting some of my other writing on’t net, possibly in PDF format as e-books. (Or eeebahgum-books in Yorkshire) Some of my other stuff would need rewriting from the ground up, as they were written for other formats. It could be done though.

Anyway, love you BYE!

Edit: I have also added the kit page (i.e. the stuff that we use to make NSD podcasts) to the blog so that it is in the same format, and now easier to edit.

These are the rough amounts of downloads of NSD’s that we have had since June 2006. My records don’t go back any further than that, it also doesn’t show if people have listened using the online Flash player on the later ‘casts. The Rock Podcast is not on there either as that is not hosted on my webspace, but we are trying to get figures for that too. Just thought that you might be interested. We are quite proud of this to be honest, I know that we are still small, but plenty of people have heard of us now

Sorry to do this, and become like the rest of the web, but I have added a donation icon to this blog, and I may add one to the NSD pages too. It is not about making me lots of money, just so that you know, oh no. It is a payment that goes directly to Dreamhosts and goes towards my hosting costs, which is where we hold the North South Divide podcasts.

No pressure, quite the opposite, but any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

There is a permanent icon at the footer of the page.

Based on the page that I made the other day, showing how we make the NSD, I made:

• This!
  

A page with all of our kit on it, well not really. Alright then pedants, a page with a list of all our kit on it.