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What is it like to push yourself to your physical limit - and then beyond that?

I was fascinated by this autobiography of an extreme runner, Ultramarathon Man, which tells the story of Dean Karnazes’s journey from stressed out executive to running non-stop for 200 miles across America via ultramarathons through the desert and a marathon in the Antarctic. You can listen to my audio podcast review via the player below.

You can subscribe to the Fusion View Mobile Podcast by clicking on the “Subscribe with iTunes” button - it’s free and new episodes will be downloaded automatically to your iTunes application.

Here are links to Dean’s website and blog:

Ultramarathon Man

Dean’s Blog

For more ultrarunners who blog and also those who podcast see:

Dirt Dawg
Running at the Centre of the Universe
Living, And Loving Life
A Trail Runner’s Blog
An Ultrarunner’s Blog

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You can leave me a voicemail or email response to be played on the Fusion View Mobile Podcast - for voicemail, there are local numbers to call for USA & Canada and also the UK: go to my Contact Page for details.

Some friends and I met up for dinner the other evening at Tukdin, a Malaysian restaurant in the Paddington area.

It was recommended to me by Zaharah Wan, aka Kak Teh, so it was a great bonus that she and her husband Wan Hulaimi, aka Awang Goneng, the bestselling Malaysian author of Growing Up in Trengganu could join us to introduce us to what turned out to be their “home from home”.

We were also joined by my good pal, Ingrid Beazley, blogger and co-editor of Dulwich OnView, the online magazine of the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery and my partner, web designer Angie Macdonald.

We did a podcast review of the restaurant and also got the opportunity to meet Tukdin, the man himself. Check it out via the player below.

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If you’re tempted by our review to try Tukdin for yourself, the address is 41 Craven Road W2 3BX Tel: 020 7723 6955. Please mention Fusion View if you do.

After some setbacks, I’m back podcasting with a new Mobile Podcast format that takes advantage of Ipadio’s live phoneblogging & mobile upload facilty. I hope that bringing audio blogging to Fusion View will stir up some different, spontaneous energies around this blog as I bring you conversations, interviews and audio impressions while I am on the move and out and about.

I’m also planning that 2010 will be my year of being creative and active. There’ll be podcasts on the arts, writing, culture. I hope to share my walks in and around London and restart my series on My Local London. You may also find some future mobile podcasts created on the run - literally! - as I bring you along while I run…

Although some podcasts will be live by mobile phone, others will be via pre-recorded mp3s but my aim throughout will be to keep it as “live” and spontaneous as possible…

I hope you’ll join me on my journey!

You can subscribe to the Fusion View Mobile Podcast by clicking on the “Subscribe with iTunes” button - it’s free and new episodes will be downloaded automatically to your iTunes application.

Leadership coach and good pal Nicola Stevens interviewed me this afternoon about my book International Communications Strategy and using social media for business. She used the Ipadio app on her iPhone to record our conversation and then posted it up to the web within minutes of our chat - so it was a little nerve-wracking knowing there was no opportunity for any editing before we went out “on air”!

She also snapped me in full flow with her iPhone and posted it up to her Posterous site.

Off record after the interview, we talked about how easy it is these days to publish images, video, audio and text. A click of a button on a mobile phone is all it takes! Even just a few years ago, it was still very fiddly to get the content from whatever source - a digital camera, a video tape, an audio recorder - convert it to the relevant format and find the software to FTP transfer it up to some specialist server and then to get it to your website… Now, even a self-confessed non-tecchie like Nicola can be a one-woman multimedia hub - all she needs is her iPhone!

My co-author Silvia Cambie and I are very excited that our big day has arrived. The launch of our book International Communications Strategy is taking place tonight, hosted by Chicago Booth University and The International Alliance for Women.

Due to restrictions on numbers, this is an invitation only event but Mark Smith, CEO at Ipadio.com, is kindly running a live phoneblog from the event where he will hopefully be able to live stream some of the speeches and also interview some of our guests during the party so that those who have not been able to come along will be able to get a flavour of the event through the audio feed.

I’ll also be calling in at various times during today to let you know how the preparations are going.

You can listen to the audio blog via the player below. When the tab “Live: On Air” shows up, you will be able to listen to the live audio feed (subject to a 5 second delay). Otherwise, you can listen to already-recorded audio sessions by clicking on the Previous tab (and move about the various sessions by clicking Next and Latest as required).

The event starts at 6.30pm UK time (GMT +1hour). The live audio feed will be running intermittently whenever Mark calls in on his mobile phone.

I hope you enjoy the audio version of the event.

I’ll be phoning in after the event, too, to share my impressions and de-brief of the event so do come back in the next few days as well!

Business communications expert and podcasting guru, Neville Hobson, interviewed my co-author Silvia Cambie and me on Friday for his influential For Immediate Release podcast. We talked about how we came to write our book, International Communications Strategy, the main themes and ideas we explore in it and our favourite chapters/ case studies.

Neville has now uploaded the podcast interview on iTunes and his blog - so if you’d like to listen to our discussion, please do go and check it out.

Thanks, Neville!

Or you can listen to it via the grey podcast player below.

Photo: thanks to Neville, with permisision

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Ipadio.com is a live phoneblogging platform - you dial a number from any phone and speak. It is broadcast live on the internet - a message is sent to your Twitter feed so that people following you on Twitter can come and listen to you live. The timelag is about 5 seconds so it is pretty live!

It’s free for consumers and you get 60 minutes* for each phonecast - or “phlog” as they call it (not the most elegant word!).

Mark Smith and his team at ipadio are terrific and taking on user feedback and they’ve integrated a lot of user requested functions. The most useful for me are cross-postering:

# to posterous.com, where I have my “lifestream” and which I have set to further automatically cross-post to this blog
# to Facebook

If you have a Blogger, LiveJournal or Wordpress.com, it will also auto-crosspost to those sites. How cool is that!

There is definitely a move towards immediacy and lifestreaming over polished, edited content. Lifestreaming is your stream of multimedia from your current real world experience online to share with the world what you’re doing right at that given moment. Twitter has probably set the tone for that with the ability to post short text messages online within seconds. Qik offers live streaming video. Posterous enables you to email photos, mp3s, video and text online - if you have a smartphone, that’s pretty easy and immediate - but what it lacked, in my view, was the option to audio blog by phone so with ipadio bridging that gap, Posterous has become, for me, a great way to share my lifestream.

*Update 12 July 2009 - Mark Smith at ipadio tweeted on Twitter re this blog post to say that actually, they are giving all users call duration of 60 minutes now (it used to be 5 mins). Thanks, Mark!

In today’s show:

My running is back on track - hurray! I talk about my aim to enjoy the process of running and not set any race or marathon goals in case my overly goal-focused personality hijacks the whole purpose of this hobby - which is to have fun!

Inspired by Matt’s You Are There segment, over at his rundiggerrun podcast, I start an occasional series My Local London, where I share with you some places in London which I find interesting, curious or are just plain nice to hang out in. Today, I’m in Trafalgar Square, taking a look at The Fourth Plinth. Discover how YOU can be a work of art by taking part in The Fourth Plinth project….

Also, here’s some video I captured via my phone camera of some street dancing outside the National Gallery on the north side of Trafalgar Square.

You can listen to the podcast using the grey podcast-player at the end of this post…

…Or, in the main player below, where you can also check out other Fusion View podcasts:

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loclon

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In today’s show:

I’m still not able to run but fortunately, have a lot of other fun things to distract me.

My sister and I take my mum to Strasbourg for her 70th birthday treat - that’s Strasbourg in France, not Salzberg in Austria - and find few tourists and a lot of great shopping in the city’s lovely medieval streets.

Back at home, we watch Running the Sahara, a documentary about three guys who run across Africa from Senegal to Egypt and the Red Sea.

Our friend Mick, the beekeeper, gives us a tour of the Kent House Road Allotments in South London and we come back to our half-finished vegetable patch in the back garden with fresh inspiration.

Photos of the allotments, including South London vineyards, are in the slideshow below:

Then - to round off the show, I tentatively start running again, with my ankle strapped up and feeling a little bit anxious about whether it will hold out….

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In today’s show:

I check out the live phoneblogging platform Ipadio.com with some live phoneblogs on my mobile phone.

I’m feeling sorry for myself as I have done something to my leg and can’t run - to my great dismay.

But socializing with friends keeps me entertained. Some of the sites and friends I mention are:

# Kenny who blogs at Life for Beginners, visits from Malaysia and tells me about “foodcrawls”, the greedy person’s equivalant of pubcrawls

# An energetic young barrister tells me about adventure racing, a triathlon like sport that’s catching on in the UK

# Lybbe in Canada sends me an email comment about my podcast. Lybbe’s blog “Blah blah blah” is at http://lybbe1631.blogspot.com/ - her bio says, “Life long weight problem. Decided at 308 pounds (or more) that I wasn’t going to let myself slide any further. I’ve lost over 100 pounds and have about 50 more to lose. I feel better than I did 20 years ago, and I know I have lengthened my life expectancy.” Also, check out her new podcast, Fifty Counting Down.

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