Dean Whitbread

Small Pictures

Hellooooooooo there! How are you? (What is a "shout out" anyway when it's at home?)

Someone once called me a cultural entrepreneur, and I hated to admit it at the time, but they were right. In short, over the past 20 years I have produced a stack of original and occasionally groundbreaking online and traditional media - videos, music, blogs, art, comedy, documentaries, commentaries, magazine articles, fiction, events, broadcasts, interviews, podcasts and seminars, and still found time to exercise, meditate and cook.

I first released a record in 1987, I first put audio and video online in 1994, and I began blogging and podcasting 2004. In 2006 I started Small Pictures Ltd.

In 2007 I judged the podcast category of the AOP Awards, and in 2008 I judged the podcast category of the Sony Radio Awards.

Under a pseudonym, I wrote the popular Blog of Funk (4.5m hits, 250,000 repeat visitors in 2007). I write articles for print magazines, e.g. the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association http://is.gd/RK7

I wrote a chapter on podcasting for Professor Vito Di Bari's excellent book "Web 2.0" (Professionisti24, 2007 ISBN 13: 978-88-8363-880-0)

In terms of impact on the wider world, I've made broadcast / print news doing these things: creating ecological art on London's south bank (1983), BBC Radio's first internet simulcast, and being in Res Rocket Surfer, the world's first internet band (1995), streaming audio from the Notting Hill Carnival (1996), writing and performing music for myself and others (1987 - 2007), co-founding and heading up the UK Podcasters Association (2006-present).

More at http://deanwhitbread.com/blog/ and other places.