by cameron | Feb 7, 2007 | media 2.0, Podcast
Welcome to anyone visiting here for the first time after hearing about podcasting on Jon Faine’s show this morning. Take a few minutes to check out some of the shows, listen to the other shows on The Podcast Network, and leave a comment, send me an email, whatever. Welcome to the future of media.
The show was fun. I’ve been down to the ABC/JJJ a few times now and I thought Jon was probably the most balanced of all of the interviews I’ve done on radio. Traditional radio jockeys and mainstream journos usually love to turn their noses up at “citizen media”, with an air of snotty superiority which is the pride coming before the fall. Jon wasn’t too bad though. After the show he commented that the ABC seems convinced that podcasting is the future and they aren’t throwing any more money at “this” (he waved a finger around the studio). I told him that he’s the last of an era. That seemed to get his back up a bit and he protested that more people than “EVER” will listen to the radio in the future and I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he’s dreaming.
James is a great guy. He was telling me afterwards over coffee about his recent launch of EduBlogs Premium, a commercial service he’s just launched for educational institutions that want to run their own blogging service. I’ll get him onto GW soon to chat about it in more detail. So much for James being the “anti” new media guy. 🙂
Jon’s big red button:
More photos here.
by cameron | Feb 7, 2007 | Australian politics, climate change, energy, energy debate, environment, Podcast
John Howard *still* doesn’t want to do anything about climate change. The Cartoon Network pays $2 million in fines in the cheapest ad buy this year. And I review some of the recent comments on the blog. All that and not much more on tonight’s show.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Feb 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
But only for the day.
If you haven’t been listening to TPN Rock recently, you should check it out. Ewan had this great idea to bring guest hosts on to play their favourite podsafe music. This week’s edition is by podcasting pioneer Eric Rice. Check it out. There is something about the energy and in ya faceness of his opening track, Get Ready by Head Pe, that reminds me of “Get Free†by ex-Aussie band The Vines.
by cameron | Feb 5, 2007 | Christianity, science vs religion
Andrew Sullivan recently linked to this 2005 article about now-defunct American Pastor Ted Haggard.
This quote from him lends weight to my recent arguments that Christianity is incredibly violent at its very core:
“I teach a strong ideology of the use of power,†he says, “of military might, as a public service.†He is for preemptive war, because he believes the Bible’s exhortations against sin set for us a preemptive paradigm, and he is for ferocious war, because “the Bible’s bloody. There’s a lot about blood.â€
If you buy the bible as the word of god, then you have to buy its view that everyone who disagrees with you should be killed, maimed or tortured. So I don’t buy this excuse that “oh it isn’t Christianity that’s violent, it’s just a few bad apples”.
I also love this bit about how Ted built his church early on:
He staked out gay bars, inviting men to come to his church; his whole congregation pitched itself into invisible battles with demonic forces, sometimes in front of public buildings.
It puts his forced admission late last year of ice-fueled illicit gay sex into some perspective.
by cameron | Feb 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
Missing AllTunes? I am. I miss it like a lost limb. However, someone called Scottitude in the comments section of my old blog just posted this:
If you’re in the USA and haven’t been able to refill your AllTunes balance, Just do what I did:
From the Balance page, scroll to the bottom and click on the “Purchase Gift Certificate” button. On the next screen, Click on the “AllTunes Payment” button. You’ll reach an AllTunes login page so login and chuckle at the “pay by credit card” option because you’ve tried that countless times and it never works.
Then, click on the “Add Money by Credit Card” button anyway and chuckle again at the “select amount” options, because they haven’t worked either. Again, click the “Confirm Payment” button anyway.
You’ll arrive at a page displaying your basic (name, email, amount, order #, etc.) transaction info and the following message:
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Credit or Debit card
On the next step you’ll be transferred to the site of processing company E-centru (www.e-centru.com).
All products and services, displayed in the Internet-shop Alltunes.com, are accepted for payment via VISA/Mastercard by “TELETRANSINFO” SRL, address 69/1 Stefan cel Mare Blrd., Chisinau, Moldova, through a protected URL https://secure.e-centru.com. For security purposes, the card numbers are not kept by the company.
Please, be careful during typing information about your credit card. All typed data will be transferred using SSL connection 3.0 (to protect the data and prevent and guarantee its safety).”
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Enter your billing information and click “Pay Now”. Go to www.AllofMP3.com, login, click your “Balance” tab, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see “Your Current Gift Certificates”. Click on the “status” link and send yourself the gift certificate by entering your email address.
You can either wait for the email or navigate back to the “gift certificate” (from the balance page)and copy & paste the URL to the gift certificate. You’ll then need to “activate” and “apply” the gift certificate to your account, which can be done from the “Balance” page.
Hurry though, ’cause you never know when this method will get blocked, too.
See you at AllTunes!
I haven’t tried it yet but it sounds pretty sweet if it works.
