Ewan The-Hardest-Working-Man-In-Podcasting Spence has had his way with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now invading O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention aka EuroOSCon. Check out his interviews with notable people over at the Tech Conf Podcast site.
Welcome to Scott and Carmen from the Mac Help from Maui cast who have recently taken over our Mac podcast! Scott and Carmen do a great podcast on all things Apple and we’re in the progress of moving their show over to TPN. The feed is up and live and you get can subscribe here.
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Yeah it’s been a while folks! How y’all doing out there?? Did ya miss me?
Today my guest is Robert Cauthorn, CEO of Citytools and longtime digital media practitioner. Robert headed and launched StarNet, the first profitable online daily newspaper, which became the Arizona Daily Star. He was also the third recipient of the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Pioneer Award. I caught a presentation Bob did at PANPA a few weeks ago and had to get him on the show. We talk about what’s wrong with the newspaper business, what they need to do to survive, and the fallacy of “trusted brands”.
Stuff about this podcast you should know:
Opening Theme Song: “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!
Someone tell Gus his blog is down. I don’t have his email address and I just googled it but came up stumps. I was just reading his review of the recent "Countdown Spectacular" in Newcastle and I wanted to leave him a comment to say how much I enjoyed reading the review. I especially loved his comments about Sherbet:
As soon as the band starts, the stage is rushed by fat middle-aged women who could care less about the earlier strictures from the guards. I can see an immediate look of panic in the guitarist’s eyes: “Fuck, this is what my groupies look like now?†But given that the band members now mostly look like elderly accountants, that’s not such a bad mismatch.
Countdown was obviously a huge part of all of our lives (now if Molly had died from a barb of some kind… and I’m thinking it wouldn’t be in the chest… then I might have some emotions). What will be the Countdown of the 21st century? Obviously it will be some form of blog/podcast. Video was a huge part of Countdown and I think the new music show should be video based. How many bands on MySpace are making their own video clips? Someone should be packaging up the best ones and putting them out as a video podcast. Ewan, are you listening mate?
Dave Gray is looking for a new co-host for The Global Geek Podcast. If you’re something of a geek and you would like to do a podcast but don’t want to go it alone, ping Dave and maybe you’ll be the new dynamic duo.
If you caught my recent post mentioning Melbourne sculptor Linde Ivimey, you might be interested in this lengthy article on her from today’s Age. I’m still trying to connect with her so I can do a podcast interview, hopefully video.
