by cameron | Apr 5, 2007 | Podcast
Well I’ve had some pretty big guests on this show over the years – Noam Chomsky, Ray Kurzweil, politicians, businessmen – but today is the biggest guest so far.
She’s the PodMother. The Matriarch of TPN. She goes by the pseudonym of Gran Jan but I know her as “mum”.
Ladies and Gentlemen – my mother. Jan Reilly.
She joins me to talk about… well… me.
We also talk about her views on religion, growing up with physical abuse, and living with alcoholism. And used condoms. Oh yeah. I’m going to need another five years of therapy after THAT comment. Listen to the last 60 seconds to know what I’m referring to.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Apr 4, 2007 | Australian media, Podcast
Tim Burrowes is the Group Editor at Reed Business who publish B&T Magazine, Australia’s largest advertising rag, and the new sister publication “Digital Media” which comes out here April 5. This is the one with the “40 Biggest Players of Australia’s Digital Age” article that Brad Howarth wrote.
Tim and I chat about the launch of the new magazine, Australia’s digital media landscape, the changes in the advertising industry, the future of TV, why he hates Telstra… and James Bond.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Apr 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
Out of all of the great information in Dave’s recent “State of Technorati” report, I found the last paragraph to be the most impactful:
As always, our credo remains to “Be of Service” – my hope is that we’re delivering on that promise better today than ever, and that this time next year it will be still more true than ever before.
“Be Of Service”. How well does that fit into the Bucky Fuller theme we’ve been discussing of benefiting the human race? This lies at the very core of what I see as the difference between what Peter Ellyard calls “Future Makers” and “Future Takers”. The makers are creating value and being of service. The takers are making money for themselves regardless of the impact on the human race. As an entrepreneur, I really want to combine being a future maker with profit. I don’t think this should be any harder than making money by being a taker – it’s all a matter of where you focus.
Here’s my challenge to each of you today – is what you are doing on a daily basis creating value for the benefit of the human race? Or are you just pillaging someone else’s value creation?
by cameron | Apr 2, 2007 | Australian media, Melbourne
One of the things I noticed while reading the B and T Digital Media magazine is that out of the top 40 list, I seem to be the only person who actually MAKES digital media. The rest of the list seem to be from agencies, managers at large media companies, etc.
I think Melbourne’s Online Digital Media community needs to get together for a drink and so, Mr Speaker, I would like to propose a new meetup event: MODM.
Register for MODM 1.
I’m also looking for some folks to join me at the midnight screening of 300 this Wednesday night at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville.
Yeah, I’m feeling sociable this week. Don’t get used to it.
by cameron | Apr 2, 2007 | Melbourne, TPN
A question for all you uni students.
How do we promote TPN around universities? How do we get the word out?
As I never attended university (but I did DRINK in them a lot, back in the days of 88 – 89 when my last band, The Rhythm Pigs, used to rehearse at Trinity College at Melbourne Uni), so I don’t really know much about what goes on in them fancy-pants higher learnin’ institutions, apart from group orgies and meth-fueled tree huggin’ by the hippy types.
I figure, though, that uni students are a big target market for the stuff we do (would you agree?) and that we should spend some energy figuring out how to promote TPN across the campuses of the world.
Any bright ideas?
