my favourite vista error message ever
I got this one today after a re-boot. Brilliant. Whoever at MSFT who wrote this error message should get some kind of comedy award. Letterman should hire them during the Writer’s Guild strike.
A new 2Web Crew podcast
Join Techcrunch’s Duncan Riley, Norg Media’s Bronwen Clune, World Communities’ Laurel Papworth, Tangler’s Mick Liubinskas and The Podcast Network’s Cameron Reilly for a chat about
- Heath Ledger’s death
- what we like and don’t like about Facebook
- the questions around Nik Cubrilovic’s Omnidrive
- the recent launch of Tinfinger
- the challenges of online identity
- … and other nerdy issues.
This show was recorded with a live audience via Ustream and with live audience participation via Tangler.
Cam Guevara
I have always wanted one of these caps that Che Guevara used to wear. I’ve looked all over Melbourne but couldn’t find one. Then last week I found The Che Store. The cap is said to be “the same Basque-style beret, with a silver metal star on the front and tip on top, worn by Che.”
The Joker and The Crow
Is it just me or is there a scary resemblance between how Heath Ledger looked in his last role (“The Joker”) and Brandon Lee looked in his (“The Crow”)? They both died aged 28.
Compete vs Alexa – TPN growth for 2007
While we can’t compete with PodShow’s 14000% growth over 2007 (and we also haven’t raised $20 million from investors), Compete.com says TPN grew by 430% during 2007. I don’t think Compete’s numbers are accurate – my own logs say we only doubled in size – but hey, Adam seems to accept their view of things, so who am I to argue? Although they also say only 20,000 people visited TPN in December which is obviously a completely bogus number. It was more like 500,000 according to our logs. They claim to calculate only US traffic but still, that’s most of TPN’s traffic. Compete strikes me like Alexa – pretty flaky.
As you can see, according to Alexa we actually went backwards in 2007. So Compete says we grew by 430%, Alexa says we went backwards, our own server logs say we grew by about 200%.
G’DAY WORLD #310 – Efisia Fele, Horror Auteur
Efisia Fele, aka 01000101 on Twitter (it’s binary for ‘e’), aka Fiz to her friends, is a Melbourne-based actor, writer and director of horror films. I caught up with her a few days ago to talk about being a horror entrepreneur, as well as a wide ranging discussion about her directing debut LOST NOT FOUND, her lead role in the US production DEATH WALKS THE STREETS, the importance of horror as a genre, her favourite horror films, and much, much more.
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TPN now has a HQ in Second Life! Add “Cameron Switchblade” to your friends (that’s me). I’d be happy to show you around and help you find your SL legs.
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Podcasting Live with Ustream and Tangler
Yesterday I had one of the most exciting experiences I have had since starting podcasting 3+ years ago.
While driving around Melbourne, I participated in the 2Web Crew podcast with Duncan in SF, Bron in Perth and Laurel in Sydney. I had my Macbook open on the seat beside me, connected via 3G card, and my Snowball mic sitting in a cup holder.
Dangerous? Not really, it was all hands-free.
But… that isn’t the exciting part.
While we were recording the show, UncaDunc (Duncan’s new nickname) had set up Ustream to stream the chat live and we had some folks listening in. Now that is exciting but it isn’t the best bit. The best bit was how Big Mick Liubinskas set up a Tangler forum to follow the chat. This, in my opinion, takes podcasting to an entirely new level. We not only had listeners chatting with us (of course, I didn’t follow any of this until I parked at my destination), but they were dragging in YouTube videos that we were talking about, screen grabs of websites, posting up photos of themselves listening… I felt like I was in a room with a hundred people. It truly was exciting.
I’ve often talked about how I am keen to see podcasters find ways to innovate so podcasting becomes more than radio on an ipod and this combination of Ustream and Tangler is, i think, a huge leap forward. You can also embed the Ustream stream into Tangler (or your own website) so people don’t need to open up Ustream itself.
I tried to get this all working myself when I interviewed Wayne Turmel for G’Day World but it is kind of tricky to get working. Duncan helped me out later and I found these instructions for setting it up on a Mac. I haven’t found any yet for Windows but will keep an eye out.
Porn & LOTU
6 residents showed up for the church of LOTU first meeting in SL » VTOR – Virtual TO Reality
Tdavid came to TPN HQ looking for LOTU and discovered porn! He asks on his blog is there is some connection between LOTU and porn. I did know there were porn channels on the TV unit I bought (part of the package) but I didn’t know someone had turned them on. No connection between porn and lotu but I can tell you that lotu has nothing against sex between consulting consenting adults or pornography made by consulting consenting adults. As long as human rights aren’t being violated, lotu is happy with porn.
Tags: lotu, second life
G’Day World #309 – Tinfinger
Late last week, Paul Montgomery (CEO) and Tai Tran (CTO) invited themselves over to Casa del Reilly to give me the rundown on Tinfinger. It’s kind of like the new Who’s Who. But online. And open. Less stuffy than Wikipedia. And they will pay you to write profiles on the site. Pay you, that is, in ADSENSE IMPRESSIONS. Interesting business model.
Tinfinger reminds me of a site I started up a year or so ago with a similar idea. I walked away from the business when I was less-than-impressed with my business partner’s attitude and ethics. But that’s a story for another time.
To give you an idea, check out my Tinfinger profile here.
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TPN now has a HQ in Second Life! Add “Cameron Switchblade” to your friends (that’s me). I’d be happy to show you around and help you find your SL legs.
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SMH 15 January, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age re-ran Andrew Bock’s article on podcasting which first appeared on December 20, 2007 only this time they used a photo of me they took in February 2005 (!). This is the same article I complained about here because I felt it was, deliberately or not, unbalanced. Still – I won’t deny it’s always strangely exciting to see a photo of yourself in the mainstream press. It’s happened to me a lot over the last few years but I still get a thrill out of it, even though logically I’m aware that it means little. TPN’s traffic won’t significantly increase. No worthy investors will ring me up. Old colleagues and bosses who used to give me a hard time probably won’t see it and squirm. I did like Mick Liubinskas’ analysis of the photo though:
Analyse the Pic;
- He’s wearing glasses – He’s hip!
- He’s wearing a suit – He’s professional.
- He’s surrounded by books – He’s smart.
- He’s leaning on a laptop – He knows tech, but he runs it, it doesn’t run him.
Very insightful, Mick. I pointed out to him that Fairfax took this photo back in Feb 05 when we were just getting started. I remember the sunnies were sitting on a coffee table and the photographer said “Are those yours? Put them on.” Greatest piece of advice I ever got from a photographer. 🙂
