Today I’m launching the first of an ongoing series of Ebay auctions to sell advertising space on TPN podcasts, starting with G’Day World. There are three advertising spaces available on G’Day World and more to come on other TPN podcasts over the course of this week.
[audio:http://http://noillusionspodcast.com/audio/tpn_ebay_170706.mp3]I’ve got an idea. I need someone who knows a lot about running the technical side of a wiki to contact me.
Welcome back to Australia, Richard. I agree with your statement:
"People want to consume media however they want, whenever they want and a media company that doesn’t adapt to that is going to fail …"
Call me when you’ve settled in. We should chat. I can help with your mission. My number is 0400455334.
A couple of months ago I turned up to a stencil art event in Melbourne with my video camera and shot some interviews for a video podcast. I interviewed a range of people attending the event, including artists, musicians, and guests.
I interviewed one interesting and charming young exhibiting artist from country Victoria who went by the tag of WHY?. If you live in Melbourne, you’ll see his paste-ups around the city.
I just found out today that WHY? tragically passed away in an automobile accident a couple of weeks ago. He was 21. More here.
He explained to me the motivation for his art as the desire to get people to stop for a moment, in the hustle-bustle of daily life, and ask themselves why things are the way they are.
If you see his art up around the city, stop for a moment and allow yourself the question. For Dan. WHY?
UPDATE: if you only got half a podcast, sorry folks, please try again. Looks like my ftp upload failed first time around.
Clarke Scott is a Melbourne guy who has just launched a series of sites (for the Australian, US and UK markets) to help people sell their used car. His hook? The listings are free. He talks about his inspiration for the site and his business model. Oh, he’s also a new TPN sponsor, so make sure you give him lots of link love. 🙂
Australia site: driverchange.com.au
US site: driverchange.com
UK site: driverchange.co.uk
Don’t forget to pop over to our G’DAY WORLD FORUM to chat about all this stuff in more detail.
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Opening Theme Song: “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!
Neilsen/NetRatings has released a report on podcasting which has left a lot of prominent podcasters, myself included, scratching their heads and makes me wonder where they got their sample data from. A company in Cupertino by any chance?
For example, they claim that the primary browser for podcasters (not podcast listeners) is Safari. Now, I know that if I take TPN’s hosts as a sample, about 10% of them are Mac users. And if I look at our server logs for June 2006, I know that 83.7% of our audience are Windows users, compared to 9.1% using a Mac. So, although I admit my sample is also pretty small, it doesn’t correlate with Neilsen’s.
Frank Barnako spoke to the analyst behind the report and has picked up some other issues with it as well. But, as Frank says,
When firms like Nielsen/NetRatings and Forrester Research pay attention to podcasts, that’s good. By studying podcasting they’re saying, "There’s interest here. People willing to pay for our reports want to know what’s going on."
Chris writes: Your feed has something wonky with it. I leave my PC on all the time so my podcasts can DL automatically through the night etc. Noticed lately loads of times, your podcasts keep loading themselves, even old ones, I already deleted etc.
Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
In August 2005 I interviewed Dr Aubrey de Grey, biogerontologist from the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK, about his work to develop a cure for human aging. He calls it SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) and is confident that, given enough funding (a measly $100 million a year for ten years), we can make significant in-roads towards curing human aging. He and his partners have established The Methuselah Mouse Prize, a scientific competition designed to draw attention to the ability of new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process. Back in August, Technology Review magazine issued another challenge – a prize of $20,000 for any molecular biologist working in the field of aging who could submit an intellectually serious argument that SENS is so wrong that it is unworthy of learned debate. Well this week an independent panel of judges decided that none of the three submissions received were worthy of the prize.
Who were the judges? Just a bunch of nobodies.
What does it all mean? I guess it means that, despite the derision aimed at Dr de Grey’s theories from certain members of the scientific community, no-one has been able to provide a scientific rationale sufficient to convince the panel of judges that SENS is inherently flawed. Now, I’m no biogerontologist (hell, I can hardly spell it), but I’m all for backing any serious big brain (and, in Dr de Grey’s case, a big beard as well) who thinks they might be able to delay, let alone cure, aging. Shouldn’t this be the #1 field of scientific research?
Of course, all de Grey needs to do is reverse engineer Keith Richard’s DNA. The guy IS Methuselah.
Listen to my original interview here. Read the three submissions here.
[audio:http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/gday_world/Gday_World_onthepod_20050801_42_aubrey_de_grey.mp3]I had the pleasure this morning of being a guest on a pilot for a new TV show on the ABC. The hosts are Red Symons and Nathan Cochrane. It was good to finally meet Nathan in person because we have some friends in common and he’s part of the Fairfax IT mafia. It was also great to meet Red, as I’ve been a fan of his since I was a kid. For those of you who live outside Australia (or too young to remember), Red is (according to his Wikipedia profile) "probably best known as lead guitarist with the (chart-topping 70’s Australian band) Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey It’s Saturday variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne‘s breakfast show."
One thing I learned today is that he likes to spend his off-time geeking around with video editing tools and his particular thing is to take video footage of speeches from politicians and mash them up into a song. He showed me one today featuring George Bush which was brilliant, lots of 3D rendering, just amazing. And here’s an earlier one he did featuring Australian Prime Minister John "I never made that deal" Howard called "Trust". Check it out, I think it’s cutting edge stuff!
