by cameron | Sep 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
Chris Brogan, one of the co-founders of the Podcamp movement, throws this out: “I”m not a podcaster”.
My big thing at the moment is telling people I’m not a podcaster either. Instead – “I build and commercialize communities of interest.” The podcasts are just one medium we use to build our communities. Blogs, SNS, VW, F2F meetings (like MODM), are other mediums as also employ.
And I think all businesses can say the same thing. Isn’t that what a business truly does? Build communities of people who want to solve a problem using their product and/or service? Perhaps if they thought of themselves that way, they would truly grok whats happening on the web at the moment instead of screwing it up.
Reminds me of the old story I’ve told before about astronomers before Copernicus. If you asked them what they did for a living, they would have told you “we study the way the Sun rotates around the Earth.” The very definition of who they were prevented them from ever really seeing the truth.
by cameron | Sep 11, 2007 | Podcast, Public Relations
Sigh… here we go again… it seems the people from 2Clix haven’t attended any of my talks over the last couple of years where I have explained why jumping the gun and suing a blog/forum/podcast for a couple of negative comments about your company/product/people is just plain STUPID.
I heard about this via Daniel Bowen’s GEEK RANT blog (well via his Twitter post actually) but the original story is up here on Whirlpool.
Here is the substance of the blog post on Whirlpool:
Whirlpool founder Simon Wright is being sued by accounting software firm 2Clix Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 118 044 198) for alleged “injurious falsehood”.
The Statement of Claim from the company alleges that Simon Wright allowed statements “relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious” to be published on the Whirlpool forums.
2Clix is suing for at least $150,000 (plus costs), and is demanding that two forum threads be removed from the site.
Whirlpool believes the action has no merit and will defend the matter vigorously, despite being a community website with little resources.
Does anyone remember Warren Kremer Paino Advertising? The same thing I said to them back in April 2006 I say now to the folks at 2Clix:
Take some free advice – retract the charges and get on with business. This is a no win situation for your company. You will forever tarnish your reputation. Every time someone Googles your company in the future all they are going to read about is how you sued a small-time online forum over a couple of negative comments. This isn’t a winnable situation for you. Your Googlerank will be screwed FOREVER. No amount of money can buy it back. Bail out now.
You’ve got two choices:
1. You can pursue this matter and try suing the entire blogosphere who will comment on it. It won’t even matter if you win against Whirlpool – there will be ten thousand blogs talking about the case.
2. You can accept that negative feedback is a part of doing business and learn how to manage the online process effectively. Call me (+61 400455334). I can advise you.
Oh and everyone else – you can digg the original Whirlpool post here.
technorati tags: 2clix, whirlpool
by cameron | Sep 11, 2007 | US politics
Lest we forget… the Want To Know website tracks the verified events leading up to, during and post the 2001 attacks on America, with each event backed up by source material.
I particularly like this one:
Jan 2001: After the elections, US intelligence agencies are told to “back off†investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on investigating Saudis. [BBC, 11/6/01, more]
Six years on, what do you guys think happened on 9/11? While I have yet to see any hard evidence to demonstrate that the Neo-Cons either knew about the attack in advance or obfuscated the investigations into it afterwards, there is little doubt in my mind that the attacks played straight into their hands and conveniently gave them the ammunition they required to fulfill their desires spelled out so clearly a year before the attacks in the PNAC report.
Do we know the truth? If not, will we ever know?
I doubt it. 44 years after JFK’s assassination we still don’t know for sure what happened.
by cameron | Sep 11, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, Podcast
My guest today, to talk Australian politics and new media, is Matt Marks. We discuss KEVIN07, what’s wrong with the Liberal Party, and why political parties in this country need to engage with new media.
Matt has recently written a chapter for the Crikey Guide to the 2007 Federal Election on the campaigning process and use of new media in the election campaign. Matt’s chapter is called ‘ My opponent suxs.com’ and explores new media and digital campaigning.
To quote a section: “The 2007 election campaign will see the beginning of this revolution… but any political party, journalist, commentator or activist group that fails to adequately develop a new media strategy is simply going to be left behind.â€
Matt’s background lie in financial and business markets. He is a former staffer to a senior Australian Senator, a past Federal President of the Australian Federal Young Liberal movements, a Merrill Lynch Investment Banker and Wall Street broker.
Matt is currently founder and managing director of political consultancy, Marks Strategies, and is the founder of the Rightthinker blog.
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by cameron | Sep 11, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics
I mentioned on Twitter this morning that I thought the news today that the Victorian Government is introducing legislation to ban teenagers from getting genital piercings was outrageous and it started a lengthy and amusing conversation. Only some of the responses can be seen here, as not everyone has their Twitter feed on “public” setting. See what you miss out on if you’re not on Twitter?
Back to the genital piercing issue – I’m totally against the Government getting involved in “protecting” us from our own decisions. This should be a matter between children and their parents. I asked the barista at the safe where I was reading the paper this morning what he thought and his reply was “doesn’t the Government have more important issues to deal with?”. I concur.
Stories like this are great for sucking up public debate and distracting people from other, more important issues happening in Victoria at the moment like… like… hmmm…
by cameron | Sep 11, 2007 | Melbourne, technology
About a week ago I tried to open my Acer Travelmate Tablet PC and noticed the little hinge where the screen attaches to the base was broken. No idea how it happened. Wear and tear I guess. I’ve had this machine for two and a half years. Now I can’t open the screen up at all. So I took it into Acer’s repair joint in Melbourne last Thursday. When I realized this morning I hadn’t heard from them, I gave them a call. They told me they had assessed the unit and it would cost me $300 to get it repaired!
I only paid $1000 for the whole machine.
So I went in today to see the quote. Turns out, the replacement hinge will cost $120, there is $60 for labour, and the remaining $120 is to replace the whole upper casing. Why? Because I mentioned that the little latch that hooks the screen onto the base at the front was broken.
$240 for two little pieces of plastic. A quarter of the cost of the entire unit. Makes you wonder what the other pieces of the unit are worth. The screen? Hard drive? Memory? Apparently not as much as the hinge and latch. THAT’S where the big bucks are.
So I told them to forget it, there’s no way I’m paying $300 for two little bits of plastic on a 2.5 year old laptop. That’s highway robbery. I paid my $50 “assessment fee” and left.
Now I’m in the market for a new laptop. I’ve been fairly happy with the Lenovo desktop I bought earlier this year. It’s bloody quiet. Maybe I should get a Lenovo? On the other hand, perhaps it’s time I bit the bullet and went Mac? Is it that time?
Did I mention that I run the largest independent media company (by reach) in Australia? You’d think there would be a whole bunch of hardware companies wanting to buddy up to me….
by cameron | Sep 10, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Today I’ve been testing a FREE product called CamStudio (no, this isn’t a product named after me… would be cool though if it was). Many of you might have heard of a product called Camtasia. Well CamStudio is just like that – only free.
From their website:
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
Want to save that cool trailer on Apple’s website to your hard drive but don’t want to fork out for Quicktime Pro? Use this.
Want to save that podcast to your hard drive? Use this.
Want to capture a Skype video call striptease with you girlfriend for… whatever nefarious purposes you have later? Use this.
Want to record yourself demo’ing your software app to upload to your website? Use this.
Want to record what you’re up to in SL when you should be sleeping? Use this.
technorati tags: camtasia, camstudio, video, skype
by cameron | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Yup, my birthday is coming up soon (Oct 10) and I know you’re all dying to show me how much you appreciate the fact that I’ve spent the last three years slaving over a hot microphone to produce thousands of hours of free content for you.
“But Cameron,” you ask, “how can we ever repay you? We are but humble folk.” I know, I know, my children, but fear not. There is a way.
Buy me stuff from my Amazon Wishlist.
by cameron | Sep 10, 2007 | movies
Wow, this new Rambo film looks like… a Rambo film.
http://embed.break.com/MzYyNzYx
http://view.break.com/362761 – Watch more free videos
by cameron | Sep 8, 2007 | Podcast, Video
Another video from X | Media | Labs (yes, Caroline and Melissa, I’m getting there)… this one is with the gentleman I prefer to think of as Mr Suw – Kevin Anderson. Kevin is the Blog Editor at The Guardian in the UK. In this short video (my tape ran out at the end of a long day), Kevin gives his views on how MSM sites distinguish between a journalist’s blog and their articles.
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