by cameron | Jan 30, 2006 | Melbourne, Podcast
On today’s show, Richard “Australia’s Top Podcaster” Giles and I (his humble servant) talk about:
Tech.Memeorandum News of the day –
Dave Winer says we need to change the VC model
Microsoft buying Seadragon
Other News
Take Two Interactive (makers of GTA) getting sued by City of LA
Cam’s review of Second Life (zzzzzzzz)
The launch today of TPN’s first video podcast!
Cam’s Rant – John Pilger’s book “The New Rulers Of The World”
Etymology lesson of the day – “emotion”, “ebriety”, “emperor”
Australian slang lesson of the day – “did ya get yer driver’s license outteva cornflakes packet???”
Intro / Outro music “D24″ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker
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by cameron | Jan 26, 2006 | Melbourne, Podcast
Happy Australia Day wherever you are!
On today’s show, I talk about:
Movie News – Actor Chris Penn (RESERVOIR DOGS) found dead. RIP dude. You rocked.
Tech.Memeorandum News of the day –
The upcoming launch of TPN Education
Etymology lesson of the day – “third degree”
Australian slang lesson of the day – “smoko”
Intro / Outro music “D24″ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker
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by cameron | Jan 13, 2006 | Podcast
ark Knower is the National Development Coordinator of Open Family Australia, an organisation started in 1978 by Father Bob Maguire. Their mission:
To improve the well-being and self-worth of alienated and excluded street children through unconditional support, whenever and wherever necessary, with the view to reconnecting them with the community.
Mark and I talk about the size of the homelessness problem with Aussie kids (the 2001 census suggests about 26,000 kids don’t have a regular place to sleep) and what each of us can do about it to help.
Yeah I know – it ain’t about technology. Listen anyway. You guys should all be thinking about how you give something back. Even if you don’t live in Australia, I hope you’ll find some inspiration in what Mark has to say.
by cameron | Dec 31, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
Ben Barren is a Melbourne boy who has been around this innanet thing since day T-1. He’s worked for some of Australia’s top innanet companies and is now running a Web2.0 start-up. Ben’s a voracious listener of podcasts and reader of blogs, so I turn to him for the latest updates on what the hell is going on in the world of Web 2.0.
His blog is also famous for including piccies of hot chicks in each post. Don’t ask me why. I guess it’s his advertising background. Sex sells everything else, so why not a blog?
Listen in while we talk about Mark Cuban, GYMAAE, the future of podcasting, why he’s addicted to del.icio.us, the latest in facial recognition technology, and Web2.0 business models.
Happy New Year!
by cameron | Dec 6, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
CENSORSHIP!
Is there a need or even a justification for censorship of adult material in 21st century Australia?
Today I caught up with a coffee and a chat with my mate Paul aka “Gonzo” from PolyEster Books.
PolyEster Books in Melbourne has been on a mission “TO PROVIDE THE FREAKIEST UNDERGROUND BOOKS, MAGAZINES, FILMS AND COMIX” for 20 years. In the process, the store, has become a Melbourne icon.
On the 16th November 2005, Polyester was raided and searched by several police officers with a search warrant. Several hundred videos and dvds – with an X-rating or deemed un-rated – were confiscated. While legal in Canberra and the Territories, X-rated material is considered illegal in Victoria. And while anyone over the age of 18 with a credit card can order this same material from international corporations like Amazon, a Melbourne businessman is facing (at best) serious fines and (at worst) even jail. His business could go under.
The issue here, as I see it, has nothing to do with porn.
As Helen Vnuk, a former editor of Australian Women’s Forum and author of Snatched: Sex and Censorship in Australia said in this well-written article in 2003:
The ease with which a banned film can be downloaded and viewed raises the question of censorship’s relevance in the age of the internet. But strangely enough, in the few years since Australians have had access to the net and been able to call up anything from Ken Park to The Anarchist’s Cookbook to farmyard porn, censorship guidelines in Australia have been tightened.
The same principle is at stake – that adults should be able to read, hear and see what they want – but while plenty of people are prepared to defend art-house films and books, few want to be seen defending X-rated videos and adult magazines – or, as they’re more effectively labelled by their opponents, filth and smut.
You can sign a petition to save PolyEster (even if you don’t live in Melbourne) here.
