I just discovered Lonely Planet TV – the recently released update to Lonely Planet’s website. Think YouTube but with a purely travel focus. I just watched this video on the Chinese Night Markets and its pretty cool, people eating grasshoppers, scorpions, sea urchins and starfish.
So on Saturday I was standing in a newsagents in Melbourne, scanning the magazine racks while I was drinking a Coke during a break in my stencil art course, and I spot Australian PC Authority magazine’s cover story “The New Web – Create Your Own Podcasts, Blogs, Video”.
So I flick through it to the podcast section, skim it and read:
“Of course, just like blogs, anyone can do it. That means there are a lot of podcasts out there that air to five people, and a lot of poor-quality podcasts alongside the very good ones,” said Ewan Spence, executive director at The Podcast Network (www.thepodcastnetwork.com), which produces over 60 different shows.
The first thing I think is “Where the hell did he get THAT title??”, then I start wondering why an Aussie magazine is quoting Ewan and not yours truly.
So when Ewan and I were on Skype tonight I asked him and he said he didn’t remember ever giving them a quote. I googled his words and found the entire story was lifted from the Dec 2006 edition of PC Pro magazine in the UK. It’s a shame an Aussie magazine (selling for $9.50) couldn’t even research their own story. Ed Dawson, the editor of PC Authority, should feel free to contact me for any future stories on podcasting. Not that I’m complaining about the free press. It’s all good!
I think this is the first time someone from TPN has been quoted in the mainstream press without us knowing about it. Surely that’s a turning point in any company’s timeline?
Next Monday night (March 12th) I’m going to check out the preview screening of Danny Boyle’s new film “Sunshine”. He’s in Melbourne for it and is doing a Q&A afterwards. Tickets from Popcorn Taxi.
My guests today are Dr Kris Klugman PhD and Bill Rowlings from Civil Liberties Australia. I invited them onto the show to help me understand what’s happening with a variety of civil liberty matters such as:
If you are troubled, as I am, by these issues, then get off your backside and DO something about it. Join the CLA, write a blog, record a podcast, run for politics, create some street art, just DO SOMETHING non-violent. Don’t get sucked into this bullshit mindset of “what difference does it make?”. That’s what “they” want you to think. Remember – you boil a frog slowly.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.
Leonard Cohen, Anthem
I was just thinking tonight that someone should get a copy of Nitschke’s “The Peaceful Pill Handbook”, scan it, pdf it, and release it on the web as a free e-book. Then, I thought, why doesn’t Nitschke do it himself? I’m pretty sure he doesn’t see the book as a big money maker. Why not make it available as a free e-book? If he released it as an Acrobat document (or even as a Microsoft Word document), people in Australia could print their own copies and hand them to elderly relatives.
So if any of my readers in Canada or the USA want to assist in the euthanasia of an immoral law, pick up a copy of the book here. Read it and tell us what’s in it.
“We have fragile politics in Van Halen, please accept that as a partial answer.†says David Lee Roth.
These guys are a joke. A reunion between Stanic and I would have even lasted longer than that.
I’ve always wanted to be part of a flashmob. Join the merriment here.
Mark Hunter, he of the Connery-smooth accent from TPN’s “Mellow Monday” podcast, has launched another podcast on TPN – The Playstation 3 Podcast!
Next week I’ve got a few interesting interviews lined up that you can submit ideas for.
The first is a round table debate between Phil Burgess, public policy and communication general manager at Telstra, and Garry Barker from The Age, and myself, about all matters Telstra. If you have any questions you’d like us to put to Phil, let me know.
The second is an interview I’m doing with Bill Rowlings, CEO, Civil Liberties Australia, about the Nitschke book banning and the general state of civil liberty in Australia. Again, if you have any questions you’d like me to put to Bill, let me know.
I’ve also got Brian Flemming, director of “The God Who Wasn’t There” coming on to discuss Christian mythology. Same goes for Brian.