by cameron | Jun 25, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast
I’m sure many of you read on Techmeme over the weekend about the whole “People Ready” fiasco involving FM Media and their client bloggers that started with this Valleywag post. One of the bloggers involved was Richard McManus who writes the popular ReadWriteWeb blog. I happened to be having dinner (ironically hosted by Microsoft, the company who paid for the “People Ready” advertising) with Richard last night and asked him to explain himself. Is it all a storm in a teacup? Or is it a serious issue which was mishandled by FM and their bloggers? I’d love to know your thoughts.
Also on the show are:
Microsoft’s General Manager of the Developer and Platform Evangelism group in Australia (and their #1 blogger and good guy) Frank Arrigo
Frank’s boss, the Director of the DPE group in Australia, Norbert Haehnel
Australia’s #1 technology industry journalist Brad Howarth
Richard, Brad, Ben Barren (where were you last night sir?) and I will be speaking on a Web 2.0 panel at Microsoft’s ReMix event in Melbourne tomorrow. If you’re going to be there, come up and say hi.
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | science vs religion
Oh my… Darwin.
I started off watching this video thinking it was a satire… I was actually chuckling, thinking “geeez, even I am not this subversive”… and then… slowly… i realized… these people are REAL! It turns out that they are a bunch of dangerous tards from underneath some damp, fetid rock called the Westboro Baptist Church.
Watch… and be very, very afraid… and then go watch Idiocracy and realize the premise of the film is more accurate than you might imagine.
http://embed.break.com/Mjc4MDU5
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Last night we attended the opening night of the “New Romantics” ballet in Melbourne. I loved it. I think it’s only the second time I’ve ever been to the ballet and I was totally into it. I especially loved the final act, a ballet called “After The Rain” by New Yrok choreographer Christopher Weeldon. The choreography itself was amazing but the other thing I loved about it was the music – two pieces by composer Arvo Part. I hadn’t heard of Part before but now I’m searching online for his music, especially his Tabula Rasa, Double Concerto for two violins, string orchestra and prepared piano (1977) which was the music behind part one of Weeldon’s ballet. If anyone out there has it and wants to loan it to me, let me know.
I’d definitely go back to the ballet after last night’s experience. I’m probably going to show myself up as the uneducated and uncouth tard that I am here, but the thing that struck me most last night was the almost magical grace and beauty of the dancers movements. Some of the things they were doing were completely physically unfathomable and yet they made it look easy, beautiful and incredibly graceful.
Okay, okay, I know, I’m never going to get that invite to be the arts reporter for New Yorker magazine. I don’t have the vocabulary or knowledge of dance to even begin to describe what I witnessed. All I can say is that it moved me.
And then today I watched Idiocracy and laughed my ass off. Go figure.
by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, media 2.0, Podcast, US politics
A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting goals, the Amway business getting slapped in the UK, having local tech support, Lenovo’s crap technical support, HelloWorld’s network marketing approach, and the future of a little business called Scouta.
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | CIA, US politics
From the BBC:
The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency’s worst illegal abuses from the 1950s to 1970s. The papers, to be released next week, will detail assassination plots, domestic spying and wiretapping, kidnapping and human experiments.
Conveniently, the papers being declassified stop in 1975 – the year before the current President’s father became Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).
One good thing out of this, I hope, is that fewer people will now call any theory that suggests the CIA is or has been involved in some pretty dirty business a “conspiracy theory”. It shouldn’t be beyond belief that American intelligence has played a fairly critical role in global politics over the last 60 years. They play with the same espionage toolkit as everyone else. Just because America has been the greatest experiment in human democracy, doesn’t mean it hasn’t got it’s fair share of skeletons. And if these things were true in the 50s, 60s and 70s, what makes you think it isn’t still true today?
Now, if we can get FBI to release their documents from that era, we might find out the truth about who ordered the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and Marilyn….
