On the Pod with Des Paroz

Time to get a few more Australians on the show….so we got in touch with Des and said..”Des..how about it??”…and he gave us the thumbs up.

Des Paroz has been working over at Acer Compters for nearly seven years.Whats he do?? Well…he looks after all of their e-commerce activities and IT Operations at the moment but has been involved in all sorts of things during his time at Acer. Check out his bio page for the details.

We talk about Media Centers and are they a central device or a peripheral device, how he got into computers and marketing from doing economics at university, his time at NCR in Japan, Australia and the US, his work with web based travel systems and Galileo, his thoughts on blogs, how they deal with channel partners at ACER, the NOFOLLOW tag, the ACER model of business and how it differs from the Dell model, what are ACER’s goals in Australia, his thoughts on TabletPC’s, podcasting and finally we briefly touch on scuba diving…yep…we cover a lot… 🙂

Thnx for your time Des…

G’day World Podcast :: Show #6

00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:20 The Australian National Anthem 02:00 What we did for Australia Day 04:45 Mick’s judging the Business Blogging Awards 09:00 Cameron’s infamous IM conversation 17:30 One of us is going to DEMO@15 20:15 The sponsorship auction 25:15 Rant about The Blog Business Summit in Seattle 30:00 Come to G’day World if you have a “scoop” 32:00 Our thoughts on running Google AdSense on your blog 41:30 What to do if you want to be on the show while Cam is in the USA 43:30 Bill Gates’ Teen Beats photos and the Ballmer Windows 1.0 video 46:00 Our current thoughts on Firefox vs IE 56:00 Our current thoughts on iTunes vs Windows Media Player 01:03:30 Amazon referral fees 01:04:45 XDCC Catcher 01:09:00 A quick review of podcasts we’ve done recemtly and upcoming shows 01:09:00 An impromptue rendition of “Waltzing Matilda”

Note from Mick: its the start of a new month…and you know what that means don’t you???…thats right, the bandwidth counter has been reset..yah….sooo….the podcasts will start coming out fast and strong ppl so you better hold onto your iPods… 😉

On the Pod with Mark Jones

Welome to another episode of “On the Pod” in which we talk with Mark Jones, Deputy Managing Director at IDG Communications, which is probably the largest publisher of “IT” magazines in Australia and NZ. Mark also maintains the “filtered” blog where he writes about “technology, media and marketing grit”.

In this episode we talk to Mark about print magazines, email newsletters, the death of the fourth estate and the rise of the new publishing paradigms like RSS, weblogs and podcats.

On the Pod with Jim Stewart

“On the Pod” show number seven is a ten minute ambush of Jim Stewart who is the man behind Stew Art Media.

Jim has been streaming media to the web since 1998 when he ran a daily technology news show that used to get 40,000 unique listeners per month during the dotcom era!!!!!! Holy crap!!!!! Thats not bad…its just under what the G’day World podcast is getting…we wish 😉

Listen in while he takes us through the trials and tribulations of running a media streaming company in the golden era and a lot more…

G’day World Podcast :: Show #2

Show 2 – 1st December 2004 (1hr 8 min)
Time
00:00 G’Day World intro tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker
00:10 Mick’s SPOT watch battery is not well
02:20 Comments and info from the first show
08:00 Cam’s new CD’s
08:50 Mick’s past life as a Tour/Production Manager
13:00 EPIC 2014 & Moore’s Law
18:50 Windows Media Center update
26:20 “Private Saloon”, a music track from DANI
30:35 How do you get your employees to blog
36:20 The 2005 Australian Blogging Conference
42:00 “Chucking a Winer”
47:00 This week’s lesson on how to talk “aussie”
52:00 Playing HALO2 on LEGENDARY is impossible
52:45 Cameron wants “Cafes with power points”
55:00 podfreq vs iTrip
57:00 Jeremy Wright’s eBay auction
1:05:00 “D24”, a music track by Spruiker (whole song)