The Podcast Network and Azure

I happen to be staying in a hotel tonight that has a wireless hotspot (amazing). Anyway I noticed on the Azure (thats their network provider) sign-in page that you could opt to listen to podcasts by The Podcast Network.

Unfortunately I hadn’t been aggregating these guys feed so I wasn’t aware what their latest news was – but its pretty cool. You can read more about it here.

I thought that $20 a month for 400MB was a little bit steep in the pricing given the number for shows that the TPN has and how big podcast files tend to be, but I guess its a start. Maybe they could reduce costs by pushing some of the data out to caches on the hotspot nodes – hrm.

Anina to stop blogging?

I picked up this link to to Anina’s blog from Scoble. Up until today I had no idea who Anina was but she seems pretty cool. She is a model but also a geek – so she is into gadgets and apparently posing with gadgets!

What I can’t understand is why her agency doesn’t want her to blog. Agencies demand that models provide portfolios to get work – and a blog is a kind of portfolio, but it just proves that whilst you may have legs that go all the way up to there, you also have a brain and an opinion. Maybe its having an opinion that is the problem.

Personally I think a gadget company (or group of companies) need to pick her up as a spokes person to not only model, but also to write about her digital lifestyle – in essence, do what she does now, except allow her to charge BIG$$$ for it.