Ranting tonight about GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, George Clooney’s new film (executive produced by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s company, 2929 Productions) and how the message of the film relates to podcasting. For a proper review of the movie, check out tonight’s episode of The Movie Show.
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.
On this show I’m joined by Alex and Neil from Audacious Communications who, according to their website, are:
a creative communications agency that blends the power of online social media, podcasting, blogging and vcasting with the skills of professional public relations and organisational communication.
They recently made ten bold prediction for podcasting in 2006 and I was interested to learn a little bit more about the science behind their research methodology…
G’Day World #68 (MP3 – 8.8MB – 24min)
Alex Laats, the CEO of Podzinger, joins me today to talk about the launch of their new podcast search service. As you know, I’ve been pretty skeptical about the value of these podcast “speech-to-text” services in the past, but I think today Alex was able to convince me of their worth.
However, their service is currently designed to recognize only North American accents, so it HATES this show. 🙂
Check out a part of its transcription of a recent episode:
Series: ThePodcastNetwork :: G’day World
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Now, I know I can talk shit sometimes, but hopefully I make a little more sense than this. But, of course, most of the podcasts out there come from North America, so it’s a good business decision and Alex assures me they are working on other languages, including other regional English accents and Chinese.
Scott Johnson, blogger, self-described “serial entrepreneur”, founder of Feedster (which he resigned from December 15th) and co-founder of the new site Ookles, joins me today for a chat about life. We talk about his background prior to Feedster, some lessons in entrepreneurialism, and how Ookles got started.
Thanks also to Michael Air, Scott’s new business partner, for the intro.