by cameron | Jun 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFoq_5RbC4]
This is a brilliant use of YouTube for two reasons:
1. He’s offering his audience to record their stories of botched medical procedures or other problems with the medical system in the US and he will then (somehow) get members of Congress to watch them. So he’s using YouTube as another form of activism which proves that although most of the web may indeed be porn, gaming and emo kids, like any other tool it is what you make it.
2. This is a much smarter way to promote his new film SICKO. Instead of saying “hey promote my film”, he’s saying “hey help me change the medical system”. This is very Marketing 2.0.
by cameron | Jun 8, 2007 | movies, Podcast, Video
I had the chance today to spend 15 minutes with Will Arnett, one of the stars of the new Will Ferrell/Jon Heder comedy “Blades Of Glory“. I caught the film earlier this week and it’s very funny, a lot funnier than I expected it to be actually. Definitely gets higher marks than Talladega Nights.
Arnett is probably best known as Gob from the now-canceled TV series “Arrested Development“. but he’s also been in films such as “Monster-in-Law“, “RV” and a small role in “The Sopranos“.
I’d like to thank Bruce Moyle and the boys at Coolshite for hooking me up with Paramount.
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by cameron | Jun 7, 2007 | Podcast
I’m very pleased to have author Staton Rabin back on the show. She first joined us in February 2005 on episode #18!
She joins me today to talk about her new book:
It’s a fascinating period of history that I know very little about: Rasputin, the February Revolution, Anastasia, Alexei, etc. As I said to Staton on the show, everything I know about Rasputin I learned from Boney M.
Australian listeners can order the book from Booktopia. Amazon also carries it.
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by cameron | Jun 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
James Farmer is seriously frakked. I mean, I love the guy. He’s a nice guy. He’s helped TPN out, we’ve had fun on the radio, he set up the Start Up Stories thing on The Age, I’ve got a lot more respect for him now that he’s decided to pull his pants all the way on and quit his job as “guy-who-gets-newmedia-but-pretends-he-doesn’t-either-to-curry-favour-with-
deadwood-management-or-as-linkbait” to become a full-time entrepreneur.
But then he goes and writes shit like this and makes me laugh so hard I don’t know whether I should be in on the in-joke or if he seriously believes this kind of shit.
Should the fact that he used a word like “twee” be a tip-off?
Well, anyway, here’s your Technorati post James. Is this what you wanted???? 🙂
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This is what YouTube is all about: watching Jason Alexander, pre-Seinfeld, singing in a McDonald’s commercial.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac]
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Dick Cheney’s hatchet man Scooter Libby has finally been sentenced to jail for the Plame affair. I’ll still be surprised if he actually does time inside the big house. All his legal team need to do is keep the appeals process going long enough until Bush’s last day as Prez when he can safely do a Jed Bartlett and pardon Libby while nobody is looking.
by cameron | Jun 6, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
If you’re in Melbourne and you have an interest in online digital media, then make sure you get your pixelated ass to MODM #2 this coming Thursday night. Register now. We have about 50 people at the moment. Make sure you join our Facebook group as well, because I think it’s going to be a key tool for us.
