The Joker and The Crow

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Is it just me or is there a scary resemblance between how Heath Ledger looked in his last role (“The Joker”) and Brandon Lee looked in his (“The Crow”)? They both died aged 28.

Compete vs Alexa – TPN growth for 2007




Compete’s TPN ranking

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While we can’t compete with PodShow’s 14000% growth over 2007 (and we also haven’t raised $20 million from investors), Compete.com says TPN grew by 430% during 2007. I don’t think Compete’s numbers are accurate – my own logs say we only doubled in size – but hey, Adam seems to accept their view of things, so who am I to argue? Although they also say only 20,000 people visited TPN in December which is obviously a completely bogus number. It was more like 500,000 according to our logs. They claim to calculate only US traffic but still, that’s most of TPN’s traffic. Compete strikes me like Alexa – pretty flaky.

As you can see, according to Alexa we actually went backwards in 2007. So Compete says we grew by 430%, Alexa says we went backwards, our own server logs say we grew by about 200%.

G’DAY WORLD #310 – Efisia Fele, Horror Auteur

Efisia Fele, aka 01000101 on Twitter (it’s binary for ‘e’), aka Fiz to her friends, is a Melbourne-based actor, writer and director of horror films. I caught up with her a few days ago to talk about being a horror entrepreneur, as well as a wide ranging discussion about her directing debut LOST NOT FOUND, her lead role in the US production DEATH WALKS THE STREETS, the importance of horror as a genre, her favourite horror films, and much, much more.

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Podcasting Live with Ustream and Tangler

Yesterday I had one of the most exciting experiences I have had since starting podcasting 3+ years ago.

While driving around Melbourne, I participated in the 2Web Crew podcast with Duncan in SF, Bron in Perth and Laurel in Sydney. I had my Macbook open on the seat beside me, connected via 3G card, and my Snowball mic sitting in a cup holder.


Dangerous? Not really, it was all hands-free.

But… that isn’t the exciting part.

While we were recording the show, UncaDunc (Duncan’s new nickname) had set up Ustream to stream the chat live and we had some folks listening in. Now that is exciting but it isn’t the best bit. The best bit was how Big Mick Liubinskas set up a Tangler forum to follow the chat. This, in my opinion, takes podcasting to an entirely new level. We not only had listeners chatting with us (of course, I didn’t follow any of this until I parked at my destination), but they were dragging in YouTube videos that we were talking about, screen grabs of websites, posting up photos of themselves listening… I felt like I was in a room with a hundred people. It truly was exciting.

I’ve often talked about how I am keen to see podcasters find ways to innovate so podcasting becomes more than radio on an ipod and this combination of Ustream and Tangler is, i think, a huge leap forward. You can also embed the Ustream stream into Tangler (or your own website) so people don’t need to open up Ustream itself.

I tried to get this all working myself when I interviewed Wayne Turmel for G’Day World but it is kind of tricky to get working. Duncan helped me out later and I found these instructions for setting it up on a Mac. I haven’t found any yet for Windows but will keep an eye out.

Porn & LOTU

6 residents showed up for the church of LOTU first meeting in SL » VTOR – Virtual TO Reality

Tdavid came to TPN HQ looking for LOTU and discovered porn! He asks on his blog is there is some connection between LOTU and porn. I did know there were porn channels on the TV unit I bought (part of the package) but I didn’t know someone had turned them on. No connection between porn and lotu but I can tell you that lotu has nothing against sex between consulting consenting adults or pornography made by consulting consenting adults. As long as human rights aren’t being violated, lotu is happy with porn.

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