by cameron | May 28, 2007 | technology
Chris Saad and his team have FINALLY released something. 🙂
What used to be called “Touchstone” is now called “Particls” and Chris was nice enough to put together a TPN-branded version of it for us.
What does it do?
It installs a funky scrolling toolbar up the top of your screen which shows you the latest posts from your favourite RSS feeds. In the case of the TPN version, it comes pre-installed with TPN’s OPML. You can add you own.
It kind of reminds me of Pointcast from 1996 – are any of you old enough to remember Pointcast? If you don’t, it was a classic rags to riches and back to rags story of Dot Com One. You need to check it out.
Particls, of course, is far cooler than Pointcast (thanks in part to RSS and broadband) and also does lots of other cool stuff – it watches what you surf and decided what you like to spend your attention on, then brings that content to the surface – you can decide whether or not you want it to show you everything or just the most important things, based on keywords, etc.
Anyway, mucking about with it for ten minutes will help you understand it a lot more than me blabbing on.
GET THE TPN VERSION OF PARTICLS HERE. YES, IT IS FREE.
Congrats to Chris and the team at Faraday Media.
by cameron | May 26, 2007 | technology
Well – we’ve been waiting for this for years. Des and I used to wish for it continuously on the Productivity Show. And now it’s here – The Mobile Version of Google Calendar.
The announcement on the Official Google Blog is here.
Finally I can say sayonara to Microsoft Outlook. My calendar will now be online, available to everyone to view my availability, I can view my friend’s calendars, organize group events, etc.
Blessed be Google. For they make shit happen while their competitors cling to 1995.
by cameron | May 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
My screensaver threw up this image today and it prompted me to throw a few old photos up into my Flickr. These were taken in Feb 2005, when I was at DEMO in Scottsdale, Arizona, thanks to the conniving of Buzz Bruggeman and Robert Scoble. I launched TPN while I was there. This shot is, L to R, Shel Israel, Cameron Reilly, Robert Scoble. I remember us being in Shel’s car when he and Robert found out they had landed a publishing deal to write a book on blogging which ended up being “Naked Conversations“, a milestone in the history of corporate blogging. Check out the other photos of me with Jason Calacanis, Buzz, Marc Orchant and Dan Bricklin, genius inventor of the world’s first electronic spreadsheet. Good times.
by cameron | May 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
The TPN IT boys asked me to test the image upload function in WordPress so I thought I’ve give you all something to pin up on the walls of your cubicles. 🙂
by cameron | May 25, 2007 | TPN
I suck at show names. Our strategy for the last couple of years has been to stay pretty basic. “The PSP Show”, etc. But in some cases, that kind of self-descriptive naming convention doesn’t work. I need help from some clever creative types to help us come up with new names for upcoming shows. Anyone out there want to help?
The first show is the one that Stan Relihan is going to produce on business networking – using new tools like LinkedIn, etc, but also using old fashioned f2f methods. How do you build a powerful business network and then leverage it effectively?
The names we’ve been tossing around like “The Art Of Business Networking” just sound either too klutzy or too much like a Tony Robbins seminar.
Any suggestions???
by cameron | May 24, 2007 | energy, energy debate, Podcast, science, science vs religion
Rod Adams, host of TPN’s Atomic Show, joins me today to talk about nuclear energy vs solar and religion vs science.
Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – +613 9016 9699.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | May 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Amazing isn’t it how sometimes songs you heard in your childhood but that didn’t really GRAB you back then can come back to you 20 years later and BLOW YOU AWAY!
SUPERNAUT by Black Sabbath of their 4th album, mysteriously titled “Black Sabbath Vol. 4”. What demon of the Underworld rose up to give Tony Iommi that marvelous riff? I haven’t been able to get it out of my head all day. And Ozzy’s lyrics!! Check them out:
I want to reach out and touch the sky
I want to touch the sun
But I don’t need to fly
I’m gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
And find a distant man a-waving his spoon
Okay Oz, you had me until the last line. You want to try it all, experience it all, taste it all. I’m with you brother, I really am. But a man waving a spoon? WTF? I know, “moon” is hard to rhyme without resorting to Buddy Holly “June”, “soon”. What about “And when I’m 60 I’ll look like a prune.”? That would have been accurate if not poetic.
I’ve crossed the ocean, turned every bend
I found the crossing near a golden rainbow’s end
I’ve been through magic and through life’s reality
I’ve lived a thousand years and it never bothered me
A thousand years! A man I can look up to. A transhumanist before we had such a word.
Got no religion, don’t need no friends
Got all I want and I don’t need to pretend
Don’t try to reach me, ’cause I’d tear up your mind
I’ve seen the future and I’ve left it behind
Me either Ozzy. Who needs friends? I’ve seen the future too and it ain’t pretty. I’m running it. Trust me. Not pretty.
And then at the 2’50”, after a blistering Iommi solo, we go from the heaviest riff in history into a… samba??? Cowhorns, pepper shakers, and washboard??? WTF???
I dunno, but I’m loving it. Worked out the riff on my guitar (not hard, five notes) and been playing it LOUD for my neighbour’s appreciation for the last 15 minutes.
Thank GOD for the Sabbs.
Get a preview of the track at Amazon. I do not recommend downloading the whole 2CD Best Of Black Sabbath from a torrent service like this one. That’s just not on kids.
by cameron | May 23, 2007 | Podcast
Today I ask you – what is it going to take for you to get off the bench?
And wish my dead dad a happy 58th birthday.
Here’s a link to the post on The Age and here’s a link to the J. Paul Getty book I mention.
by cameron | May 21, 2007 | movies, science, science vs religion, singularity
The guys from the Singularity Institute are trying to get on the front page of Digg. Do me a favour and DIGG SIAI.
See also Eliezer’s new video interview.
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Remember Stan Relihan from episode #219? The LinkedIn guy? Well I’m excited to announce that he’s starting his own show on TPN! You may recall I half-jokingly set Stan a goal at the end of the show to use LinkedIn to get me a good guest for the show. Well he’s the guy that set up my interview with Vint Cerf. So we both agreed he proved his point. 🙂 We haven’t come up with a title for the show yet but it’s going to be around networking, using LinkedIn and Web2.0 tools but also how to network the old fashioned way. Strategies for getting the most out of your network. As networking is something I’ve never really been good at or comfortable with, I’m really excited about the show.
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Michael Lemonick over on Time’s site has a good article on ID vs Evolution. There’s some fiery debate in his comments. Michael’s post on the recent “dark matter” images is also good. Helped me start to get my head around what I’m looking at.
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Anyone know when GRINDHOUSE is opening here?? When I wrote this post on March 30th, according to YourMovies.com.au it was supposed to open on May 31st but it seems to have disappeared? I wonder if this has anything to do with the news that they are going to split the films up?
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OH MY ZEUS!! I just watched the most brilliant, amazing, mind-wrenchingly awesome film I have seen in eons – HARD CANDY. I’ve been hearing about this film since it hit the cinemas and most people told me “it’s hard to watch”. But I loved it. I haven’t been this excited about a film since… Fight Club. This is the best psychological thriller I have seen since DEATH & THE MAIDEN. I thought Ellen Page‘s performance was amazing. Although it’s pretty hard to pass her off as a 14 year old, even a “mature” 14 year old, she’s believable enough. But her performance was simply spellbinding. I can’t think of enough adjectives to describe this movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, get it out on DVD immediately. Do not pass GO, etc.
by cameron | May 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
Broke my fast tonight after three days. Couldn’t hack it. Grrr.
Excited by this image of The Joker from the next Batman film though. Looks very dark – as it should be. No more cartoon villians. Show me something that will give me nightmares and long for a caped crusader equally as twisted to keep me safe.
Watched two great old films over the weekend – The Hudsucker Proxy and 12 Monkeys. Both absolute classics.
