 Download the iPod version here.
Here are the edited video highlights (edited to protect the innocent) of the TPN dinner from Sept 14. Lots of talk about Sharon Stone, geek film and tv reviews, some moleskine talk, with a special appearance by Father Bob Maguire who spanks us for being “social journalists” instead of “social activists”.
Warning: it’s about 20 minutes long.
As you can probably tell from her blog posts, Miriam was the star of the TPN dinner this week as she regaled us with stories of going to an Anglican all girl school in Canberra and… well the things girls do when they are with girls. "nuff said. Well on her blog tonight she’s put up a photo diary of her recent experience getting a barcode tattoo.! Very cool. I’ve said for years I’d love to get one exactly like that, although recently I’ve changed my mind and decided I’m going to get a TPN logo instead. Over the course of my life I’ll get a tatt of the logo of every company I start.Â
Well last night, to celebrate Richard Giles’ first trip to Melbourne since he’s been on TPN, a few of us, hosts and guests, gathered together in solemn fashion for dinner at Chocolate Buddha in Fed Square, then had a few drinkies at Taxi. I won’t say ANYTHING about what was discussed (valour being the better part of discretion) but will just say if you weren’t there you missed out on an education. That’s all I’m going to say on the matter.
Michael Specht’s commentary is a good start:
Cameron was in full swing, maybe one too many coffees in the day, Father Bob made a brief appearance, Martin from the Travel Show, Of course Rich Giles was there, along with Kate, Miriam, Matt, Tony, Rich (Stock market Rich, do you have a web site?) and a couple of others I do not get to meet.
We all had photos taken with Cam’s red glasses (I am sure they will be on Flickr soon), Cam had the Video camera going which means there might be a video podcast.  Lots of Sake was had and looking at some of the posts floating around lots of fun was had by all.
Some other thoughts of the night from the people who came:
My photos of the night are here (watch for a G’Day World video edition coming soon).
Miriam’s posts about it are here (but her blog seems to be down at the moment… second thoughts about some stuff you wrote Mizza?)Â 🙂
Thanks to everyone who came, especially my friend Father Bob Maguire ("I’m 72!!!") who made it in ("I nearly slipped on the stairs!").
Don’t miss the next TPN dinner which will be in early December to celebrate two years of G’Day World and therefore two years of Aussie podcasting! Book here!
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Rich and I do our first show together LIVE! Not all that exciting really. I thought he’d be much better looking. We talk about… stuff.
Ewan The-Hardest-Working-Man-In-Podcasting Spence has had his way with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now invading O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention aka EuroOSCon. Check out his interviews with notable people over at the Tech Conf Podcast site.
Welcome to Scott and Carmen from the Mac Help from Maui cast who have recently taken over our Mac podcast! Scott and Carmen do a great podcast on all things Apple and we’re in the progress of moving their show over to TPN. The feed is up and live and you get can subscribe here.
If you’re in Australia, pick up a copy of the Sept 7th edition of BRW in your local newsagent and read the cover story on Web2.0 on page 30. TPN gets a *very* small mention on page 33, along with fellow Aussie Web2.0 startups Atlassian, Omnidrive, Zapr, Remember The Milk, Touchstone, Gnoos, Bluepulse, Tangler and Tinfinger. Congrats to Ben Barren who actually got some copy! I smell the work of Mike Zimmerman from Technology Venture Partners in this story. He gets a bit of copy as well. Mike, if you are responsible for getting our brief mention, my thanks!
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Yeah it’s been a while folks! How y’all doing out there?? Did ya miss me?
Today my guest is Robert Cauthorn, CEO of Citytools and longtime digital media practitioner. Robert headed and launched StarNet, the first profitable online daily newspaper, which became the Arizona Daily Star. He was also the third recipient of the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Pioneer Award. I caught a presentation Bob did at PANPA a few weeks ago and had to get him on the show. We talk about what’s wrong with the newspaper business, what they need to do to survive, and the fallacy of “trusted brands”.
Stuff about this podcast you should know:
Opening Theme Song: “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!
This is according to a recent Washington Post article. (link)
A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.
I also love this quote from the article:
"It’s a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."
Thanks to NickHaC for the link to the story. He’s just watched the Loose Change film and agrees with me that they make a pretty compelling argument that, 5 years later, there are still way too many questions unanswered.
Over the last couple of years I’ve been extremely rude to friends like Jeremy Wagstaff and Marc Orchant (to name only two) who have told me how they had partially abandoned technology in their search for productivity and had regressed back to using a pen and paper. Not just ANY paper mind you. The infamous Moleskine. In certain geek circles, using a Moleskine is almost as de rigeur as having a Mac notebook. Secretly I’ve always wanted to join their ranks (on both counts, but for now we’ll discuss the moleskine) but I bravely fought the urge because I wanted to force myself to develop a strategy for using technology that worked.
Well, as listeners of The Productivity Show already know, I finally broke last week and have abandoned technology as my primary productivity tool/s in favour of a Moleskine. The one I’m using is a large lined notebook. And okay, there is something strangely primitive-yet-seductive about writing, with a real pen, on real paper. You got me. It’s just like a Tablet PC but strangely different. It doesn’t take ten minutes to boot. I don’t need to calibrate the book each time I use it. The battery life is pretty good, the fan is quiet, and it doesn’t get too hot on my lap. It doesn’t make any loud booting up noise when I open it in a café. The screen resolution is pretty good in sunlight. And I don’t need to synch it between multiple PCs and PDAs. I won’t get separate out of date versions of my task list appearing in multiple folders scattered across my PC.
Of course if I lose it, I’m screwed. Which is why I moved away from my Franklin planner eight years ago. It got stolen out of my car and I lost ten years of important shit. After eight years of using PDAs, I’ve decided – ENOUGH!
Now I’m becoming addicted to reading blogs with Moleskine hacks. And all of those annoying pens which people have given me as gifts over the last ten years when I speak at conferences, I can now finally put to good use. I apologize to all of you for being rude as well.
Now, I need a Moleskine system. That’s part of the seductiveness of the book I think. You can create your own mods without learning AJAX. I need a system that will allow me to capture and process. Is there a Moleskine hack which stops you from reading blogs about Moleskine hacks and makes you get back to work?