by cameron | Dec 8, 2005 | Podcast
My guest today is Cydni Tetro, Vice President of Product and Corporate Marketing, NextPage Inc.
Cydni was on the podcasting panel we did at BlogOn2005 in New York last October.
She has been using podcasts to add value to NextPage’s clients. In the interview we discuss her philosophy of how to best use podcasts as a marketing tool. There are still very few companies out there using podcasting well. NextPage is out in front of the pack.
NOW… while I’ve got your attention… can I ask a couple of favours?
1. Vote for G’DAY WORLD over at Podcast Alley. Just a little experiment we haven’t tried for a long while.
2. Don’t forget to subscribe to G’DAY WORLD! Don’t know how to subscribe? Read our guide here.
by cameron | Dec 6, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
CENSORSHIP!
Is there a need or even a justification for censorship of adult material in 21st century Australia?
Today I caught up with a coffee and a chat with my mate Paul aka “Gonzo” from PolyEster Books.
PolyEster Books in Melbourne has been on a mission “TO PROVIDE THE FREAKIEST UNDERGROUND BOOKS, MAGAZINES, FILMS AND COMIX” for 20 years. In the process, the store, has become a Melbourne icon.
On the 16th November 2005, Polyester was raided and searched by several police officers with a search warrant. Several hundred videos and dvds – with an X-rating or deemed un-rated – were confiscated. While legal in Canberra and the Territories, X-rated material is considered illegal in Victoria. And while anyone over the age of 18 with a credit card can order this same material from international corporations like Amazon, a Melbourne businessman is facing (at best) serious fines and (at worst) even jail. His business could go under.
The issue here, as I see it, has nothing to do with porn.
As Helen Vnuk, a former editor of Australian Women’s Forum and author of Snatched: Sex and Censorship in Australia said in this well-written article in 2003:
The ease with which a banned film can be downloaded and viewed raises the question of censorship’s relevance in the age of the internet. But strangely enough, in the few years since Australians have had access to the net and been able to call up anything from Ken Park to The Anarchist’s Cookbook to farmyard porn, censorship guidelines in Australia have been tightened.
The same principle is at stake – that adults should be able to read, hear and see what they want – but while plenty of people are prepared to defend art-house films and books, few want to be seen defending X-rated videos and adult magazines – or, as they’re more effectively labelled by their opponents, filth and smut.
You can sign a petition to save PolyEster (even if you don’t live in Melbourne) here.
by cameron | Dec 5, 2005 | Podcast
Rich Giles, host of The Gadget Show, joins me today for a chat about:
Wired Magazine as a Technology Market Barometer
Adam Curry and “Wiki-Gate”
Aussie ISP iiNet representative suggests ISPs will block Skype
Why the Government doesn’t want to release Open Spectrum
Thanks Rich! Sorry it’s taken so long to have you on the show mate! See you same time next year? 😉
by cameron | Dec 2, 2005 | Podcast
He’s da man who said “Markets Are Conversations”. And I get to talk to him. How was YOUR day? 🙂
Doc recently wrote an article called “Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes” which has got many of us wondering, perhaps for the first time, whether or not the innanet, as we know it, has a future.
It scared the hell outta me, so I asked him to come and have a chat. The last time I spoke with Doc was almost a year ago and it’s always great to chat to him.
This was the picture we posted up last time of Mick and I bowing down before The Cluetrain Manifesto.
by cameron | Nov 29, 2005 | Podcast
Okay. There you have it. We’ve been doing this bloody podcasting thing for one whole year. Despite the critics, the poverty, the death threats, and troublesome technology, we have soldiered on, over hill and dale, podcasting for one whole year.
We tried very hard to think up something fun to do for our one year anniversary. But we couldn’t think of anything. So we just did a show.
And YES… I pulled out the Mick sock puppet for the occasion, just to please the three people who remember who he is. 🙂
On a (rare) serious note – Mick and I would like to thank all of you for listening in to our rants and raves over the last year and for participating in the conversation. We’ve certainly had fun so far and we’re starting to think this podcasting thing might have more legs than some people predicted. Whaddya think?
BTW, I forgot to point out, that G’DAY WORLD was the very first Australian podcast, the very first Skype podcast, and the very first show on The Podcast Network, which was itself the very first podcasting business! Surely those things are worth celebrating? A moment of silence?
