On the Pod with Staton Rabin

by | Feb 12, 2005 | Brisbane, Podcast

In our first “non-tech / non-geek” interview at G’day World be talk to US author, Staton Rabin.

Staton came to Cam’s attention because of a book she wrote called “Betsy and the Emperor”, a young adults book about a friendship between Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe, a fourteen year old who lived on the island of St. Helène where Napoleon was kept on after his capture by the British. For those that don’t know… Cam is a Napoleon buff. The cool thing about Staton’s book is that it has been picked up as a movie that will commence filming shortly and was going to star Anthony Hopkins at one stage and now has Al Pacino slated to play the lead role and Patrice Chereau
locked in as the Director.

Apart from writing, Staton works as a story analyst / screenwriter in New York and has worked on a number of successful film adaptations.

An interesting interview on an interesting topic…

This podcast is sponsored by Brisbane Decking.

On the Pod with Steve Rubel

by | Feb 9, 2005 | Podcast

So we haven’t really interviewed anyone in New York…who could we get to talk to who has done a “lot” for the blog clause that our listeners would find interesting??? Maybe someone who is in the PR game…hmmm….And then Buzz cames to the rescue…why not interview Steve Rubel??? Yeah…great idea…

Steve is the Vice President for Client Services at a PR firm in New York called CooperKatz who have a substantial list of clients…some of who are even starting to utilise blogs…

Listen as as we chat to Steve about the weather in New York (and WeatherBug), his time in the PR business, are blogs a threat to the traditional PR company, his own blog (Micro Persuasion) , how he tries to introduce his clients to blogging, Punxsutawney Phil, Jennifer Lopez, PubSub, hearing Dave Winer slap down one of firms clients at BloggerCon while doing the laundry, Trevor Cook and the Global PR Blog Week, Kryptonite, the Apple leaks, Garden State, the 60 sec elevator pitch on blogging, how the press is lagging behind the bloggers and the long tail, crisis management and blogs, yada yada yada…. 😉

Check out the show for all the facts…what can i say…its another classic show you can’t afford to miss…

On the Pod with Frank Arrigo

by | Feb 5, 2005 | Podcast

Frank Arrigo = Mick + Cam = G’day World podcast

Nice and cryptic for you??? Well…tune in to the interview we recorded with Frank Arrigo on the 17th of January to find out what it means.

The Frank interview has by far been our biggest request from Australian developers…well…here he is guys and gals…for those that don’t know Frank…Frank has been with Microsoft for 13.5 years and is currently the head of the Developer Platform Evangelist Team in Australia…

His career story is long and we cover a heap of it here along with other great stories…including working in Canberra pushing LANMAN and the introduction of NT…the time he spent at the Executive Briefing Centre at Microsoft’s Redmond campus…he used to write and prep some of the presentations for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer (find out about the hole in Steve’s office)…he tells us where the Windows 95 name came from…we touch on the start of nineMSN…some of his blogs get a mention along with why he blogs…there is just to much to talk about here….go and listen to the story of Frank…trust me..its well worth the time… 🙂

Last and final bids…sold…

by | Feb 5, 2005 | Uncategorized

The eBay auction for sponsorship rights to the “G’day World DEMO@15 Special Edition” shows is over…And the winner is…<applause>Frank Arrigo</applause>

Well done Mr Frank…and a big thankyou to all the other poeple that placed bids over the last 10 days…but we can only have one winner…we will be in touch soon Franky to work out exactly what we are putting into the shows for you 🙂

And to top it all off (is this perfect timing or what??)…in about 30 minutes, the interview we did with Frank about 2 weeks ago is going to go live…its all action over here at the G’day World studios today… 😉