by cameron | Mar 9, 2007 | Australian politics, Melbourne, Podcast, technology
On episode 211 my guests are Dr Phil Burgess, Group Managing Director, Public Policy and Communication, Telstra and Garry Barker, Technology Editor at The Age. We spent an hour at Telstra’s Melbourne offices this morning discussing the state of broadband in Australia.
Phil is often in the news (here are some recent stories) debating the broadband issue with other Australian corporate executives, the ACCC and the Federal Government, but this is a rare opportunity to hear him speak (loudly and passionately) about Telstra’s official position on the broadband debate for an hour.
Thanks to Phil and Garry for participating and to Paul Crisp and Rod Bruem at Telstra for making it happen. I know Phil is a supporter of blogs and podcasts (he is the guy who make Telstra’s ‘Now We Are Talking’ blog happen) so hopefully this will just be the first of many such conversations.
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by cameron | Mar 8, 2007 | Christianity, Podcast, science vs religion
Brian Flemming’s bio on his blog says “I make movies, I write plays, I blog.” You have to admire that kind of brevity.
The main reason for chatting with Brian was to talk about his 2005 documentary “The God Who Wasn’t There” which he describes as “a feature-length documentary partly exploring what amounts to Christianity’s dirty little secret: That Jesus Christ probably never existed at all.”
Make sure you get your free copy of Brian’s film by entering the “Blasphemy Challenge“.
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by cameron | Mar 7, 2007 | media 2.0, Podcast
(This episode of G’Day World has been cross-posted from Podcasting APB)
On this episode my guest is Dave Nelsen, CEO, TalkShoe. TalkShow is a service that allows podcasters to create very interactive shows with up to 400 live participants. For those of you who can’t read, look at the pretty picture:
Dave and I chat about:
How TalkShoe works
The business model
The state of podcast advertising
How TalkShoe is funded
Why he makes fresh bread at 5am for his employees every morning
How he hired his Indian development team
His philanthropic interests
Why it’s important to teach kids about entrepreneurialism
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by cameron | Mar 5, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, TPN
So on Saturday I was standing in a newsagents in Melbourne, scanning the magazine racks while I was drinking a Coke during a break in my stencil art course, and I spot Australian PC Authority magazine’s cover story “The New Web – Create Your Own Podcasts, Blogs, Video”.
So I flick through it to the podcast section, skim it and read:
“Of course, just like blogs, anyone can do it. That means there are a lot of podcasts out there that air to five people, and a lot of poor-quality podcasts alongside the very good ones,” said Ewan Spence, executive director at The Podcast Network (www.thepodcastnetwork.com), which produces over 60 different shows.
The first thing I think is “Where the hell did he get THAT title??”, then I start wondering why an Aussie magazine is quoting Ewan and not yours truly.
So when Ewan and I were on Skype tonight I asked him and he said he didn’t remember ever giving them a quote. I googled his words and found the entire story was lifted from the Dec 2006 edition of PC Pro magazine in the UK. It’s a shame an Aussie magazine (selling for $9.50) couldn’t even research their own story. Ed Dawson, the editor of PC Authority, should feel free to contact me for any future stories on podcasting. Not that I’m complaining about the free press. It’s all good!
I think this is the first time someone from TPN has been quoted in the mainstream press without us knowing about it. Surely that’s a turning point in any company’s timeline?
by cameron | Mar 5, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, censorship, Podcast, US politics
My guests today are Dr Kris Klugman PhD and Bill Rowlings from Civil Liberties Australia. I invited them onto the show to help me understand what’s happening with a variety of civil liberty matters such as:
David Hicks
Dr Phillip Nitschke’s book
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock
Banning of Muslim books
Sedition and other “anti-terrorism” laws passed in Australia
The use of fear as a tool of manipulation
Free Speech
An Australian Bill of Rights
The troubling rise of the Christian Right in Australia
Gay marriage
If you are troubled, as I am, by these issues, then get off your backside and DO something about it. Join the CLA, write a blog, record a podcast, run for politics, create some street art, just DO SOMETHING non-violent. Don’t get sucked into this bullshit mindset of “what difference does it make?”. That’s what “they” want you to think. Remember – you boil a frog slowly.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Mar 2, 2007 | Podcast, TPN
Mark Hunter, he of the Connery-smooth accent from TPN’s “Mellow Monday” podcast, has launched another podcast on TPN – The Playstation 3 Podcast!
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