by cameron | Nov 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
While I was in the US, I bought the Texas Hold Em game for my iPod from iTunes. Quick review – it rocks! Very nicely put together and quite addictive.
Okay, so much for the good news. Here’s the bad news. I bought it from my laptop and synched it to my iPod. So far so good. Of course when I got home yesterday and synched my iPod with my desktop, the game disappeared! I’ve just spent the last 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get the game back on my desktop and so far, no luck.
I’ve googled it and can’t easily find the solution. Any iTunes gurus out there who want to give me a hint?
by cameron | Nov 13, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
As part of my new job as part-time entertainment gossip mongerer for the showBUZZ podcast, I’ve had to learn how to find stuff like this – the recently released 19 second clip of Britney Spears’ alleged sex tape that rumours say her ex-husband K-Fed is going to sell the full version of. WARNING: NOT WORK SAFE… unless, like me, you work for yourself. In which case, bring it on. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.
by cameron | Nov 13, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last night was my final night in SF and what a night it was. The Aussies, including myself, the Atlassian boys, the Touchstone boys and the Tangler boys drove down to Palo Alto to have dinner at University Cafe with fellow Aussie Nik Cubrilovic from Omnidrive, honorary-Aussie Richard MacManus from Read/Write Web, Gabe Rivera from TechMeme, and Ouriel Ohayon from TechCrunch France.
After dinner we headed over to Michael Arrington‘s place to play poker and liar dice. Mike Cannon-Brookes cleaned us out in Texas Hold Em and Arrington and I won a round each of liar dice. It was a great night which finished about 5am.
My tip from the evening – if you ever get a chance to play poker with MCB or Arrington for big money – watch your wallet. These guys are sharks.
A shout-out to Nik Cubrilovic for setting up the night and to Arrington for letting us use his crib. I haven’t had a night like that since I was 17. I fly out late tonight and get back to Oz on Tuesday.
by cameron | Nov 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last night I went out on the town with Brian Walsh from Castfire and his business partner Trip. Brian took me to dinner at their restaurant SAUCE. Great food and we had a big night. I’ve been suffering the after-effects of it all day so have decided to avoid the parties tonight and stay home and watch the net. Here’s a random selection of interesting stuff I found.
Mac Spoof: Gaming – These guys from TrueNuff TV have some great stuff. Also check out their Undead Insurance commercial.
Sam Has 7 Friends – a short-form video drama. I’ve got something in the works along these lines and so I’ve been checking out what else is out there. This is a great show.
Well it looks like AllOfMP3 really has stopped accepting MasterCard and Visa. What other mp3 sites are you using?
A few people have uploaded videos of Lou Reed’s recent US tour up to YouTube. Check out this version of Femme Fatale. Brilliant. Apparently Lou was the surprise entertainment at the Web2.0 party and he was pissed off because everyone was talking and not paying attention so he turned up his amps so loud they hurt everyone’s ears. 🙂 Here’s the full story on JustInsomnia. Ben Metcalfe doesn’t think Lou is hip enough for a Web2.0 conference. Here is some footage of his opening number, What’s Good from the album MAGIC & LOSS, which is about losing your friends to cancer.
Following on from my recent post about Van Halen, here they are in their prime – Unchained.
Have you seen the slasher version of Office Space? Brilliant.
by cameron | Nov 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
This clip of Bush admitting to journalists that he lied to them a few days before the elections about his ongoing support for Rumsfeld is amazing. Have you ever seen him this squirmy?
A couple of nights ago I was strolling around Chinatown and stumbled across the City Lights bookstore which is apparently pretty famous. I picked up a copy of Kalle Lasn‘s 2000 book Culture Jam
and grabbed a seat in a cozy little bar called Tosca on Columbus near the bookstore to start reading it.
I’ve been admiring Lasn for sometime. I first heard of him a year or so ago when he launched the Blackspot Sneakers and then I learned about his magazine called Adbusters. He’s trying to get people to wake up to the way that corporate advertising is conditioning us to live lives which are killing us and destroying the planet. I invited him onto the show last year but was palmed off to one of the marketing folks at Blackspot and it was a pretty boring interview so I never aired it.
Anyway, Lasn’s book has really messed me up. It made me remember why I started TPN in the first place – to create a new kind of media that is small, intelligent, passionate, informed, global, viral and for the people. To fight the system. To change the system. To change the world. Now the problem is that these thoughts don’t sit nicely with thoughts about raising venture capital and doing the whole Silicon Valley thing. I’m having an existential crisis. I keep asking myself over and over – “what is my definition of success?”.
I hate questions like that.
by cameron | Nov 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
I know what you’re thinking – Flickr is all about photography, so how can it equal the death of photography?
Hear me out.
I was on the Caltrain this afternoon, heading down to Redwood City where I had a meeting and then a Lou Reed concert to attend, and I realized I hadn’t taken my camera with me. Immediately I thought – ah well, it doesn’t matter, someone else will take photos of the concert and I’ll be able to find them on Flickr within hours.
Sure enough – check these out.
Now I could have bothered lugging my camera around. But why? Those photos are exactly what I would have taken and he probably did a better job. What’s the point of 1000 photos of the same thing?
Here’s an example – pick your favourite holiday destination. Pick something iconic about the place that you would normally want to photograph when you were there.
Now search for that thing on Flickr. Find a pretty good photo? So what’s the point of taking your own?
Now, of course, you might be the kind of person who wants to have photos of yourself standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, just in case no-one believes you actually did go to France, or perhaps to prove to yourself you really did go when the Alzheimer’s kicks in.
But really… do you need photos of yourself? What percentage of photos taken on holidays contain people versus icons? I wonder.
By the way, when I was standing in line at the concert, and sitting inside the theatre waiting for the gig to start, I interviewed a bunch of people. It was a lot of fun, I met some great people and it should make the gig tax deductible, right? It’ll be up tomorrow.
