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	<title>UKPA: UK Podcasters Association</title>
	<link>http://www.ukpa.info</link>
	<description>protecting our members' rights and promoting podcasting</description>
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		<title>UK Podcasters End Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK Podcasters Association was founded in 2006 to protect podcasters&#8217; rights, and promote podcasting. The association was dissolved at the end of 2009 after three years of prominent and successful activity, during a time when the  media landscape changed completely.
One of UKPA&#8217;s major achievements was to put podcasting on the wider stage, establishing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2010/04/09/uk-podcasters-end-association/</link>
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		<title>ADM Webcast May 21st</title>
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The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) is hosting “The Podcast Consumer Revealed” Webcast on May 21st, 2009, at 1:00 EST. And we hope you can join us.
Tom Webster from Edison Research will present this special joint ADM/Edison Webcast of the fourth iteration of this widely-cited, authoritative look at the growing audience for audio and video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/05/12/adm-webcast-may-21st/</link>
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		<title>What is a Podcast?</title>
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Podcaster CC Chapman&#8217;s daughter Emily Explains It. 
Via Podcasting News
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/05/08/what-is-a-podcast/</link>
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		<title>UKPA Banner</title>
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/04/04/ukpa-banner/</link>
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		<title>We’ve been broadcasting for 1000’s of years, but is it still radio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the farmer, for thousands of years, sowed his seed on the furrowed ground of a ploughed field; the fertile imagination and ingenuity of man planted the seeds of wireless mass communications in the late 1800’s and radio blossomed a few years later, for entertainment and information. Rather than invent a new word to describe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/03/02/we%e2%80%99ve-been-broadcasting-for-1000%e2%80%99s-of-years-but-is-it-still-radio/</link>
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		<title>How Lisa seduced me and changed my life&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent careers fair held at Dr Challoner&#8217;s High School in Bucks which I attended, representing the world of &#8220;media&#8221;, one of the most frequently asked questions by the students was &#8220;How did you get involved in media?&#8221;. Well, it was a long winding road but I can trace the roots way back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/02/09/how-lisa-seduced-me-and-changed-my-life/</link>
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		<title>Kangaroo bounced out of court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all have an on-line presence, notably the iPlayer. For some time now they&#8217;ve been collaborating on a Video on Demand project called Kangaroo whereby their content is made available from one jointly run location.
Yesterday the Competition Commission stopped the project in its tracks as in their view Kangaroo would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2009/02/06/127/</link>
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		<title>UKPA on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of our members use messaging service Twitter, so we&#8217;ve set up a UKPA account &#8211; http://twitter.com/ukpodcasters.
New blog posts will show up in the Twitter stream, and you&#8217;ll also see the last few &#8220;tweets&#8221; in the right sidebar.
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/12/04/ukpa-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>8 x 8 is a life enhancing 64</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all used to having unbelievably powerful computers &#8211; none of us would go back to systems that we had 10 years ago. And, just as you can never have a too fast processor, or too much RAM, or too bib a disk, you can never have too much bandwidth.
Before we go into details, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/30/8-x-8-is-a-life-enhancing-64/</link>
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		<title>A new New Deal could bring light at the end of the fibre&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roosevelt created the New Deal within 100 days of becoming President of the United States of America in 1932. The New Deal created jobs and led to the creation and expansion of America&#8217;s road and transport infrastructure under the auspices of the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
The Industrial Revolution was all about increasing the velocity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/29/a-new-new-deal-could-bring-light-at-the-end-of-the-fibre/</link>
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		<title>27,343.75 floppy disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holly molly! The first Mac I used had a single 128K floppy disk drive; the first one I bought had a 20Mb hard drive which I thought would be impossible to fill&#8230; I&#8217;ve pretty much filled the 3.5Terabytes of disk space attached to my quadcore Mac!!
If my maths is right, that&#8217;s 27,343.75 floppy disk drives!
Wo.
Which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/28/2734375-floppy-disks/</link>
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		<title>The new boy on the block</title>
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It’s with some trepidation that I write this blog, the first as Chairman of the UKPA; Dean’s been such a giant, bestriding the podcast community, a fantastic representative for us all, fending off foes and gaining support from allies in the worlds of Heritage Media as well as New Media&#8230;
 
&#8230;a tough act to follow.
So&#8230; what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/26/the-new-boy-on-the-block/</link>
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		<title>Venue Change for UKPA Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have had to change venue for tomorrow&#8217;s meeting:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=N7+8PR&#038;spn=0.005,0.02&#038;hl=en
It&#8217;s a pub called the Duchess of Kent. It&#8217;s 2 mins from Highbury and Islington tube, which itself is 10 mins from Oxford Circus on the Victoria Line. 
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/21/venue-change-for-ukpa-meeting/</link>
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		<title>UKPA Meeting 22nd November</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repeat notice of a UKPA General Meeting on November 22nd at the Meeting Rooms, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP &#8211; please let us know if you&#8217;re coming so that we have an idea of numbers ahead of time.
The meeting is sheduled to run from 2pm to 5pm.
If you would like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/11/03/ukpa-meeting-22nd-november/</link>
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		<title>The New MCPS-PRS Podcast License</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK Podcasters Association has been working with the Music Alliance over 18 months to help produce a new and workable podcast license, and we&#8217;re really pleased with the result.
In the UK, podcasters are well-behaved and very few use music without permission &#8211; they tend to stick to using &#8220;podsafe&#8221; music, often approaching artists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/08/22/the-new-mcps-prs-podcast-license/</link>
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		<title>On-Demand Audio-Visual Media: UK Government Seeks Views</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Governmentâ€™s proposals for implementing the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the UK have just been published. 
The consultation focuses on three specific issues which are expected to require legislation.  These are &#8216;co-regulating&#8217; video-on-demand services; product placement; and, regulating satellite TV channels from outside the EU which uplink from the UK.
This EU Directive is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/07/31/on-demand-uk-government-seeks-views/</link>
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		<title>NCFE Establishes GCSE Podcasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK national awarding body, the NCFE has established a school grade in podcasting which is to sit alongside the many vocational awards in the Arts, media and publishing sector.
From the Times:
The UKâ€™s first qualification in podcasting, in which pupils will learn how to make audio and video broadcasts available on the internet or to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/06/27/ncfe-establishes-gcse-podcasting/</link>
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		<title>Comments, Please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Independent podcasters: the Guardian are holding an in-house &#8220;festival&#8221; called Fuure of Journalism &#8211; yesterday&#8217;s topic was audio on the web. 
Your thoughts on this Guardian discussion on podcasting are welcome:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/06/future_of_journalism_internet.html
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/06/20/comments-please/</link>
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		<title>UKPA Podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve released the videos from last Saturday&#8217;s sessions at the Guardian as two long videos available here.
Also see James Cridland&#8217;s notes on the sessions.
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/04/02/ukpa-podcast-2/</link>
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		<title>UKPA / ORG Guardian Sessions: Qik Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Session 1: Regulation and Podcasting

Guardian Session 2: Music and Podcasting

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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/03/30/ukpa-org-guardian-sessions-qik-videos/</link>
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		<title>Podcasting, Rights and Music &#8211; UKPA Event at Guardian Audio, London, March 29th 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UKPA is hosting a seminar on rights with the Open Rights Group at the Guardian, Farringdon, London, Saturday March 29th 2pm &#8211; 5pm and it would be great if you would come and take part.
Becky Hogge and Matt Wells (heads of ORG and Guardian Audio respectively) will be there, as well as representatives from MCPS-PRS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/02/29/podcasting-rights-and-music-ukpa-event-at-guardian-audio-london-march-29th-2008/</link>
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		<title>New UKPA Membership Rates 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New UK Podcasters Association rates as from Jan 1st 2008:
Basic membership: Free
Full membership: £3 pcm, £36 per year
Corporate 1 (turnover up to £100,000 p.a.): £120 per year
Corporate 2 (turnover over £100,000 p.a.): £250 per year
The new Corporate 2 tier has been arrived at in discussion with members and prospective members because of the growing number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2008/01/02/new-ukpa-membership-rates-2008/</link>
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		<title>Social Media CafÃ©</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a new initiative afoot to try and bring a new, physical space to the UK, the Social Media CafÃ©.
UKPA member Lloyd Davis discusses what it is and how he hopes it will work in the UKPA podcast.
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		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/11/23/social-media-cafe/</link>
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		<title>Open Rights Group</title>
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Back in April 2006 when the UK Podcasters Association started, we were given advice and support by the Open Rights Group.
As a new organisation, we needed all the help we could get, and ORG gave it. Their intelligence enabled us to go into high-level meetings confidently, fully aware of our rights, and with developed strategies. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/11/19/open-rights-group-2/</link>
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		<title>Guardian Unlimited Joins UKPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another major media corporation has joined the UK Podcasters Association &#8211; Guardian Unlimited. At the same time, they have joined the Radio Academy, strongly signifying their further ambitions in the area.
Head of audio Matt Wells said:
&#8220;We are now a significant force in quality speech programming, with hundreds of thousands of downloads a week. For the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/11/16/guardian-unlimited-joins-ukpa/</link>
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		<title>GCap Media Joins UKPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commercial radio giant, GCap Media, operators of radio stations such as Capital Radio, Xfm and Classic FM has joined UK Podcasters Association, in a move that spearheads the radio industryâ€™s integration with digital and online media. GCap is the first radio/media company to join the UKPA, which has been attracting broadcast professionals since it started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/08/31/gcap-media-joins-ukpa/</link>
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		<title>Podcamp UK</title>
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One month to go until the nation&#8217;s first PodCamp, September 1/2 2007 at Birmingham NTI many UKPA members will be there, so make sure you&#8217;re with them. Here&#8217;s the blurb:
PodCampUK is a two-day event bringing all the excitement and ideas and energy of a PodCamp to the UK for the first time. This unique event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/08/01/podcamp-uk/</link>
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		<title>The Podcasting Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Mission: &#8220;The right to podcast your own voice speaking your own words cannot be licensed, and should be a freedom for all in perpetuity.&#8221;
Description:	 The founding principle of this cause is that podcasting, and the freedom to put your own unedited voice online, so long as it isn&#8217;t breaking the laws of the land, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/07/24/the-podcasting-cause/</link>
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		<title>UKPA Looking After Your Podcast Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Origins of the UK Podcasters Association. 
&#8220;Your right to podcast your own voice speaking your own words cannot be licensed, and should be a freedom for all in perpetuity&#8221; &#8211; UKPA Founding statement, March 2006.
The UK Podcasters Association was formed as a result of a badly phrased press release from MCPS-PRS (the UK Performing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/07/17/ukpa-looking-after-your-podcast-rights/</link>
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		<title>Thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UKPA would like to thank all those without whose intelligent input we would be a different (probably less able) organisation.
In particular, Ben Brassington of Harbottle and Lewis, whose legal knowledge and advice in the new field of podcasting has been invaluable;
Louise Ferguson, Glyn Wintle from the Open Rights group for their committment to the cause [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukpa.info/2007/06/22/thanks/</link>
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