TPN Rock Live!

by | May 18, 2007 | TPN

Ewan hitman Spence is taking it to the streets less than 12 hours to produce TPN ROCK LIVE!

Who: Ewan Spence & TPN Rockers (that means you)
What: TPN Rock Live!
When: Friday, May 18 (see below for times)
Where: Listener’s choice
Why: Is there a better way to end the week?

Attendance is mandatory for TPN Rock fans. You’ll not want to miss Ewan live, in-studio as he produces The Rock Show live from Leith FM in Edinburgh. To join the party, go grab the file needed to plug into your media player, add Ewan to your IM, tune in at the designated time and prepared to be rocked.

Time Conversion
# GMT: 2100-2300
# Central European: 2300-0100
# USA (East Coast): 1700-1900
# USA (West Coast): 1400-1600
# Australlia: 0700 (Saturday)-0900
# New Zealand 0900 (Saturday)-1100

I will be there with my rockin’ boots on baby.

Cam’s World 18 May, 2007

by | May 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized

I’m starting another fast today. So if I go a bit wonky (more wonky than usual) you know why. It’s time for a winter cleanse. Focus the mind. Heal the body. Renew the self-discipline. Hardcore. A little bit of self-denial.

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Christopher Moltisanti RIP. Holy hell, what a scene.

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I’m on a panel (with TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley and SEO guru Jim Stewart) at the evolve 07 marketing conference next month in a session called “Content Anarchy: Lunaticsandasylums”. Should be fun. If you’re going to be there, come and say hi.

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I recently ordered some new business cards from moo. What a great service. Fast, cheap, sent to my door, faster than the cards I normally get printed here in Melbourne! Definitely a keeper. They have the G’Day World album art on the back.

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I caught up with the Managing Director of Rubber Records recently and he gave me a CD with some of their recent tracks. They have some GREAT bands: Offcuts, Andrew Morris, The Exploders, GB3, The Casanovas – I’ve played this CD a bunch of times and these are some killer tracks. Good to hear some good Aussie rock. We really need an Aussie rock show on TPN.

****** Hi mick.

G’DAY WORLD #238 – Eliezer Yudkowsky

by | May 17, 2007 | Podcast, science, singularity, technology, transhumanism

Forgive me Father – it’s been at least two weeks since my last podcast.

I figured you guys needed some time to digest my last run of shows. Ready for more yet?

Another show on the coming of the technological singularity today. My guest is Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder and research fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence in California.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I have been aware of Eli for ten years or more. He was featured fairly prominently in Damien Broderick’s book The Spike and was a contributor to Natasha Vita-More’s Extropian mailing list in the mid to late Nineties.

An autodidact prodigy, Eliezer wrote the first version of his Singularity “call to arms”, Staring Into The Singularity, at the age of 15 and has been re-working it continually since then.

On this episode I’ve tried to capture Eliezer’s vision for the different forms that the Singularity might take, the timelines for it, and his motivations for trying to make it happen as soon as possible.

I hope you enjoy it.

If you want to hear more interviews about The Singularity or AI, try these previous episodes of G’Day World:

Dr Aubrey de Grey
Ray Kurzweil
Roger Williams
Dr Ben Goertzel

The Domain kicks off to a great start

by | May 17, 2007 | media 2.0, Melbourne

I had a terrific time at The Domain event in Melbourne last night. Full congrats to Sally and Deb for putting it on and to Brad “Best Technology Industry Journalist” Howarth for his interview with Aussie digital media pioneer Domenic Carosa from Destra. I’ve known Dom for quite a few years now but have never really had the chance to sit down with him over a few beers and hear him talk from the gut. It was great to hear his passion for his business and for digital media come out. I admire greatly what he has done since he and his sister started the business in 1993 when he was only 18! He said last night that neither of them took a single cent in income for the first 7 years! They were living at home with their parents. Now THAT’S a start-up baby.

The only worrying moment of the night was when I went up to say g’day to Brad and he said to the people he was with “now here’s the one person I am afraid of”. Little ol’ me Bradley? Oh buddy. I’m sweet as pie. Why afraid?

Scienta was there. Jeremy from Skylook was there. Paul McKenna from Computer Trader was there. And his partner in the SMS business, Carl Krumins from K.A.S. The three of us talked long and hard about how to use SMS to help Father Bob raise money and how to use SMS as a feedback mechanism for podcasts. I finally got to meet the famous Kerri Lee Sinclair after hearing about her for many years. And James Tuckerman from Australian Anthill magazine was there. What a terrific story there guys have. I can’t wait to get him the show to tell you about their history. Brilliant start-up story.

I hope MODM is half as good as last night was. It’ll be our first real event (the last one was more of a planning event for this one) and, like all good things, I’m sure it will take a while to find its feet, but with Dr Peter Ellyard there as our guest, we’re off to a flying start.