G’DAY WORLD #255 – Jamais Cascio, Futurist

Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He chatted with me last week about the “Participatory panopticon“, Sousveillance, and why everyone should take “democratic transhumanism” very, very seriously. Read Jamais’ blog to find out more about his views on the preferred future. You can also catch Jamais at the Singularity Institute‘s conference in September 2007.

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G’DAY WORLD #254 – Richard McManus on being “People Ready”

I’m sure many of you read on Techmeme over the weekend about the whole “People Ready” fiasco involving FM Media and their client bloggers that started with this Valleywag post. One of the bloggers involved was Richard McManus who writes the popular ReadWriteWeb blog. I happened to be having dinner (ironically hosted by Microsoft, the company who paid for the “People Ready” advertising) with Richard last night and asked him to explain himself. Is it all a storm in a teacup? Or is it a serious issue which was mishandled by FM and their bloggers? I’d love to know your thoughts.

Also on the show are:

  • Microsoft’s General Manager of the Developer and Platform Evangelism group in Australia (and their #1 blogger and good guy) Frank Arrigo
  • Frank’s boss, the Director of the DPE group in Australia, Norbert Haehnel
  • Australia’s #1 technology industry journalist Brad Howarth
  • Richard, Brad, Ben Barren (where were you last night sir?) and I will be speaking on a Web 2.0 panel at Microsoft’s ReMix event in Melbourne tomorrow. If you’re going to be there, come up and say hi.

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    G’DAY WORLD #253 – Ranting with a special guest!

    A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting goals, the Amway business getting slapped in the UK, having local tech support, Lenovo’s crap technical support, HelloWorld’s network marketing approach, and the future of a little business called Scouta.

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    G’DAY WORLD #252 – Steve Omohundro, Self-Aware Systems

    Steve Omohundro

    Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist and President of Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California. Since April 2007 he is a research advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. We chatted this morning about his timeline and vision for the possible ways that artificial intelligence will emerge and how he believes self-aware machines will benefit humanity.

    Steve is going to be another of the speakers at SIAI’s conference in September 2007.

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    G’DAY WORLD #251 – Peter Styles talks RedBubble

    My guest today, from a delightful little café in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, is Peter Styles, co-founder of RedBubble, an online art gallery and creative community that allows artists to display, sell and distribute their works.

    Peter and I talk about the site, their business model, ambitions, his background, running a start-up in Australia and the long tail of art.

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