by cameron | Feb 7, 2007 | Australian politics, climate change, energy, energy debate, environment, Podcast
John Howard *still* doesn’t want to do anything about climate change. The Cartoon Network pays $2 million in fines in the cheapest ad buy this year. And I review some of the recent comments on the blog. All that and not much more on tonight’s show.
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by cameron | Feb 5, 2007 | Brisbane, media 2.0, Podcast
Chris Saad is one of the whizkid whippersnappers behind Brisbane-based start-up Touchstone. He’s also one of the founders of the new Media 2.0 Workgroup which (according to their site) is
… a group of industry commentators, agitators and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption.
Of course, they haven’t (yet) invited me to be part of the group so I don’t know how authoritative it can be. After all, I *am* Media 2.0. Look it up in Wikipedia and you’ll see my sunnies. ANYWAY…
Here’s some of the links mentioned in the show:
uTorrent
Joost (aka The Venice Project)
Tangler
Here’s a picture of what Joost looks like for those of you who aren’t on it yet:
And because not everyone is on Tangler yet, I have set up a new forum to discuss Media 2.0 further. A place to talk about how media is changing, your favourite podcasts, internet TV, torrent sites, media center devices, etc.
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by cameron | Feb 5, 2007 | media 2.0, Melbourne, Podcast
James Farmer and I will be debating the future of citizen media on Jon Faine’s top rating ABC radio show this WEDNESDAY morning. James used to be a great blogger… until he sold out and took a job with Aussie media dinosaurs Fairfax in the middle of 2006.
Nah, only kidding. Well about James that is (Fairfax are definitely dinosaurs). I’m just trying to get into the BATTLE frame of mind for Wednesday’s event. James is a top bloke although he has become a bit of an apologist for tree media since he went on their payroll (link).
To pre-empt the usual questions:
1. no, I will not be recording it.
2. yes, ABC do podcast some of Jon’s shows but I don’t know if this one will be or not. You can find Jon’s site here.
by cameron | Feb 4, 2007 | Podcast, TPN
Brian Shearer has a great interview with comic book artist Mark Sparacio over on TPN’s new Comic Review Weekly podcast. I didn’t know Sparacio by name but he’s the very talented guy who did the above painting as well as covers for Marvel and DC Comics. Brian talks to him about how he started working in comics, how he produces his paintings, and his friendship with comic legend Will Eisner. Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in how the sausage gets made.
by cameron | Feb 2, 2007 | Podcast
Recently I discovered an Aussie start-up taking on the big boys in the area of local search – the online business directory dLook. Started in April 2006 by Theo and Meg Tsiamis, dLook is going head-to-head with the bigger online business directories in Australia and is starting to take siginificant marketshare from them, at least in terms of traffic.
Check out dLook’s Alexa chart versus Sensis’ YellowPages:
The best part of the story? dLook has four employees and is self-funded out of the Tsiamis’ bank account!
So I invited Theo onto the show to talk about why they decided to step out of their previous business (real estate development) to set up a search site (hint: a rude reply from one of the existing search providers) and how they are going to continue to beat them at their own game.
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by cameron | Jan 31, 2007 | Melbourne, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Today, in the next episode of my “Melbourne’s Leaders” series, my guest is Mr Brian Watson. Brian is the founder and Executive Chairman of Georgica Associates Pty Ltd, a private equity asset management and advisory firm in Melbourne. He was based in New York with J.P. Morgan from 1987-1999, as Global Head of Equity Underwriting from 1990-1995 and head of Global Private Equity Business from 1995-1999. He returned to Australia in 1999 and was Chairman of J.P. Morgan Australia from 1999 – 2000 and Managing Director of JP Morgan Partners (JPMP) Australia from 1999 – 2002. JPMP Australia invested across a broad spectrum of private equity opportunities in Australia.
He also sits on the board of the Australian Stem Cell Centre, was Chairman of the Government’s Venture Capital Industry Review, and was appointed to the Board of Guardians of the Federal Government’s Future Fund.
During our chat he talks about the motivations for excellence, attitudes towards setbacks and failure, the state of the Venture Capital industry in Australia, the purpose of the Future Fund, and the future of stem cell research.
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