by cameron | Aug 14, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Tomorrow (Tuesday Aug 15) you should buy The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald and read the cover story in NEXT, their IT section, about the state of web hosting in Australia. I was interviewed by Nick Miller from Next recently about why TPN hosts our shows out of the Texas. And, no, it’s not because of my cozy relationship with the Bush cabal.
August 15 is also Napoleon Bonaparte’s 237th birthday. I’ll be singing La Marseillaise every hour on the hour and it’s as good an opportunity as any for you to check out my Napoleon podcast. You might learn something, bunch of savages that you are.
by cameron | Aug 13, 2006 | singularity, Uncategorized
I can’t remember who or when, but sometime in the last year someone (to whom I am extremely grateful) recommended to me this 1994 book by Roger Williams: "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect". Yesterday I was sitting in the kid’s piano lesson, scrolling through the hundreds of ebooks on my PDA, looking for something to pass away the time, and discovered it. I started reading and I was BLOWN. AWAY. This is without a doubt the best post-singularity fiction book I have ever read. Sorry Cory – it’s even better than "Down And Out".
"Metamorphosis" deals with the ramifications of a superpowerful computer that can alter reality after a technological singularity as well as how the descendants of post-singularity humanity deal with the boredom that would come with being able to manipulate the universe at will. Brilliant, totally freaking brilliant.
Thank you, Long Tail, for making this book available.
By the way, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m also reading Chris Anderson’s "The Long Tail" and it’s also brilliant. I’m continually being struck with how well Chris is able to articulate concepts I’ve been trying to convey in my own muddled way for the last couple of years. I guess being a trained journalist has benefits after all. 🙂
Almost every paragraph in Long Tail is a quote you want to be able to recite. If I was still using highlighters, I know this is one of those books that would have more highlighted space than white.
by cameron | Aug 13, 2006 | Uncategorized
Is Andrew Bolt, News Ltd’s #1 right-wing apologist in Australia, finally starting to wise up?
In his blog yesterday, talking about the arrests in Britian, he wrote:
We must meanwhile wonder what we’ve done to breed alienated – and, I’m tipping, increasingly well-educated – non-Muslims who see salvation in a violent fascist ideology all over again.Â
Andrew, at least you’re starting to ask the right questions. "What have we done…?". I’d personally like to see the people in the media with your level of readership spending more time helping us focus on what we have done to create this situation and less time using emotional trigger words like "fascist", "terrorist" and "insurgents" to justify further Western military and economic warfare. Until we discover and understand the root cause of this situation, we will stay in denial and have to live with escalating payback-counterpayback scenarios from the hawks on both sides.
Until folks like Ron O (one of Andrew’s commenters) realize that this is a two-way street and that they are also protecting themselves from us… this isn’t going to stop. Unless, of course, we seriously think we can bomb the enemies of Western Imperialism off the face of the earth without being compensated.
I agree with Ibrahim, a Lebanese blogger who I recently interviewed on G’Day World, when he said "it doesn’t matter who is wrong or who is right. What matters now is peace and an end to the violence and deaths." To even HOPE to achieve an end to the violence we need to understand and accept the position of our enemies. And this isn’t "lefty" talk. Even Sun Tzu, the master of military strategy, will tell you that if you don’t understand your enemy, you will lose more battles than you will win.
by cameron | Aug 12, 2006 | Melbourne, Podcast, Uncategorized
November 26th 2006 will be the 2nd anniversary of "G’Day World" and therefore it is also "The 2nd Anniversary of Australian Podcasting" and the anniversary of what-was-to-become-TPN. So I guess we should start planning the party. I’m thinking we should take over a bar or something in Melbourne, take some video cameras, and drink tequila all night. As the 26th of Nov is a Sunday, we should start it on the night of the 25th and see in the anniversary. The event will be limited to:
1. Current TPN hosts
2. TPN listeners
3. TPN sponsors
I’ll be looking for someone to sponsor the event. Preferably an tequila company. Anyone got Sammy Hagar’s number?
So… who’s coming?
by cameron | Aug 11, 2006 | Podcast
Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com
Today on the show I’ve got two interviews.
The first is the John Karantzis, CEO of Reeltime, an Aussie start-up that’s just announced a JV with Yahoo7 to deliver movie and television downloads over the net.
Second I chat with Aaron Brazell, Chief Geek for b5Media, about the evolving needs of blog architectures. Aaron’s blog is at TechnoSailor.
