G’DAY WORLD #278 – Shekhar Kapur, Film Director (X | Media | Lab)

Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998), Bandit Queen (1994) and his new film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).

He writes a very revealing blog (link) and is trying to raise $1 Billion for a new media fund for investment in Asia (link). He was recently at the X | MEDIA | LAB in Melbourne. I captured an interview he did on stage with XML founder, Brendan Harkin.

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    Fairyfax sacks blogger

    Mike Van Niekerk does it again. Barely a month since James Farmer left Fairyfax as the guy running their blogs, blogger Jack Marx gets sacked for writing what everyone is thinking about Kevin Rudd. Well I guess we know the lay of the land now people. News Corp is voting Libs and FairyFax are voting ALP. Let the games begin!

    This just goes to show what we all know about “old” media – they are “old”. They say “hey! we get new media! we have blogs!” but then they play the same tired old political games they have always played, censoring and editing their content to suit the agenda of their fat, white, rich corporate bosses. Okay – Rupert is hardly fat. But you get my point.

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    MEDIA group Fairfax today sacked award-winning blogger Jack Marx after he posted a satirical article imagining what Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd got up to in a New York strip club.

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    G’DAY WORLD #277 – Brendan Harkin, X|Media|Lab

    On August 10 2007 I attended the X|Media|Lab in Melbourne and had the opportunity to interview a number of the key speakers. I’ll be putting those interviews up over the next week. This first one is with Brendan Harkin, the Founder and Director of X|Media|Lab.

    Brendan founded X|Media|Lab in June 2003. X|Media|Lab is the internationally acclaimed cross-disciplinary creative thinktank for digital media professionals which brings together some of the world’s outstanding creatives, executives, and power-brokers to work as mentors with local companies on their own digital media project ideas.

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    Duncan Riley is “On The Pod”

    Duncan Riley, founder of “The Blog Herald, co-founder of b5 Media, and presently a writer for TechCrunch, joins TPN today with his new podcast “On The Pod“.
    On The Pod features guests that might otherwise not have a high profile yet have something interesting to say. The topics vary from Web 2.0, through to Tech and general politics including labor issues and topical events. On The Pod aims to provides something different amongst the swarm of podcasts, great listening fodder for the commuter or frequent traveler.

    If you know Duncan’s work, you’ll be aware that he is known for his particular “take no bullshit” style, so I can’t wait to hear his interviews! His first episode features an interview with serial blogger, David Krug.

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    Cam’s World 16 August 2007

    Hey folks! It’s been an interesting week as those of you following my Twitter feed already know. I just thought I’d give you a few updates.

    I know I haven’t put out a show since last week and that’s mostly because I’ve been trying to focus on selling some advertising this month. However, I do have a few interviews in the can and I will get them up over the next week or so. They include video interviews with some folks I met at the X MEDIA LABS event in Melbourne last week (including UK film director Shekhar Kapur) and Ryan Trainor, one of Australia’s youngest serial entrepreneurs.

    And over the next couple of days I’ve got interviews scheduled with Dr John Demartini, an American motivational speaker and author (who was one of the people featured in the film “The Secret”), and a special edition I am producing on the state of broadband in Australia which will feature interviews with senior executives from a number of leading Aussie ISPs.

    So stick around.

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    For those of you who were following my Twitter posts last night about my borked PC, I managed to fix it at 2am after FIVE HOURS working on it. It started crashing repeatedly yesterday morning after Windows Update installed somethings. I did a System Restore around midday which seemed to fix it, but then Windows Update ran again (!) and the 2nd time System Restore wouldn’t fix it. So last night I spoke to IBM support, they were clueless, and I had to nut it out myself. After five hours spent upgrading the BIOS, drivers, and everything else I could think of, I finally had a brainwave to unplug all of my USB hubs and try booting. HURRAH! It worked. Turns out, Windows was crashing due to a problem Windows Update caused with an external USB soundcard which had been working JUST FINE for the last six months thank you very much Microsoft.

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    Could a couple of jets crashing into the WTC in NYC on 9/11 bring them down? No, said Frank Demartini. Who was he? Only the Manager, WTC Construction and Project Management. Watch this video interview he did in Jan 2001 where he says he thinks a couple of jets could fly into WTC and they would still stand. The great irony? Demartini died on 9/11.