by cameron | Jun 26, 2007 | climate change, energy, environment
Half the time I try to open a Microsoft Word attachment in my email (which is Gmail through the browser) I get this error message:
Windows doesn’t seem to know that Word is the application to open a .doc. Anyone else seen this? Damn annoying!
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If you want to know what carbon trading is all about, listen to The Cleantech Show #007: Understanding Carbon Offsets – Interview with Jeff Angel, Total Environment Centre. It’s an excellent overview. Well done Nick!
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by cameron | Jun 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
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by cameron | Jun 26, 2007 | Podcast, singularity, technology, transhumanism
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He chatted with me last week about the “Participatory panopticon“, Sousveillance, and why everyone should take “democratic transhumanism” very, very seriously. Read Jamais’ blog to find out more about his views on the preferred future. You can also catch Jamais at the Singularity Institute‘s conference in September 2007.
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by cameron | Jun 26, 2007 | Podcast, TPN
Ben Wilkoff, host of TPN’s Education Transformation podcast, has just been declared the winner of the first Totally Wired Teacher Award which will be presented at the Ypulse Mashup in San Francisco! Read his post about the award. Congrats from all of us at TPN dude!
by cameron | Jun 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
An Aeron. I want one. I have wanted one for ten years. Now… I think I finally deserve one. I spend all day sitting in front of this PC. I need comfort. I need bounce. I need a little bit of luxury.
Surely… one of you has a bunch of them sitting around at your office, hardly being used, that you picked up cheap after the DC1 crash. Think about donating one to poor me (You have to say those last two words in the voice of Livia Soparano… “oh, pooooor you”). Let me know what time to come around. I’ll meet you at the back entrance. No-one will notice.
by cameron | Jun 25, 2007 | technology
You’ve all heard me talk on G’Day World and The Productivity Show about how much freakin’ email I get and how it is a MAJOR blow to my productivity (and let’s not even START talking about Facebook…). Well it’s good to know I’m not the only one.
I sent an email to Sean Bonner at Metrobloggingtoday and rofl’d when I got an auto-response pointing me to this page on this blog. I need one of those. I’ve had auto-responses saying “too much email” before and they took away the feeling that I was letting people down by not getting back to them in a reasonable amount of time.
He has another great post on the subject here. I think he’s completely correct. Let’s break our addiction to foreign oil (or, actually, ALL oil) and to email.
Sigh. Okay. I’m getting back on Twitter to see if it helps me get off email. Somehow I think it’s akin to using crack to get off coke but we’ll see….
by cameron | Jun 25, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast
I’m sure many of you read on Techmeme over the weekend about the whole “People Ready” fiasco involving FM Media and their client bloggers that started with this Valleywag post. One of the bloggers involved was Richard McManus who writes the popular ReadWriteWeb blog. I happened to be having dinner (ironically hosted by Microsoft, the company who paid for the “People Ready” advertising) with Richard last night and asked him to explain himself. Is it all a storm in a teacup? Or is it a serious issue which was mishandled by FM and their bloggers? I’d love to know your thoughts.
Also on the show are:
Microsoft’s General Manager of the Developer and Platform Evangelism group in Australia (and their #1 blogger and good guy) Frank Arrigo
Frank’s boss, the Director of the DPE group in Australia, Norbert Haehnel
Australia’s #1 technology industry journalist Brad Howarth
Richard, Brad, Ben Barren (where were you last night sir?) and I will be speaking on a Web 2.0 panel at Microsoft’s ReMix event in Melbourne tomorrow. If you’re going to be there, come up and say hi.
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | science vs religion
Oh my… Darwin.
I started off watching this video thinking it was a satire… I was actually chuckling, thinking “geeez, even I am not this subversive”… and then… slowly… i realized… these people are REAL! It turns out that they are a bunch of dangerous tards from underneath some damp, fetid rock called the Westboro Baptist Church.
Watch… and be very, very afraid… and then go watch Idiocracy and realize the premise of the film is more accurate than you might imagine.
http://embed.break.com/Mjc4MDU5
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Last night we attended the opening night of the “New Romantics” ballet in Melbourne. I loved it. I think it’s only the second time I’ve ever been to the ballet and I was totally into it. I especially loved the final act, a ballet called “After The Rain” by New Yrok choreographer Christopher Weeldon. The choreography itself was amazing but the other thing I loved about it was the music – two pieces by composer Arvo Part. I hadn’t heard of Part before but now I’m searching online for his music, especially his Tabula Rasa, Double Concerto for two violins, string orchestra and prepared piano (1977) which was the music behind part one of Weeldon’s ballet. If anyone out there has it and wants to loan it to me, let me know.
I’d definitely go back to the ballet after last night’s experience. I’m probably going to show myself up as the uneducated and uncouth tard that I am here, but the thing that struck me most last night was the almost magical grace and beauty of the dancers movements. Some of the things they were doing were completely physically unfathomable and yet they made it look easy, beautiful and incredibly graceful.
Okay, okay, I know, I’m never going to get that invite to be the arts reporter for New Yorker magazine. I don’t have the vocabulary or knowledge of dance to even begin to describe what I witnessed. All I can say is that it moved me.
And then today I watched Idiocracy and laughed my ass off. Go figure.
by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, media 2.0, Podcast, US politics
A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting goals, the Amway business getting slapped in the UK, having local tech support, Lenovo’s crap technical support, HelloWorld’s network marketing approach, and the future of a little business called Scouta.
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