by cameron | Sep 28, 2007 | Podcast, TPN
The big press release went out today announcing that John Cleese (yes, THAT John Cleese) will be producing a new series of podcasts which will be hosted on TPN. Read the full announcement here.
What a coup, huh? This is something we’ve been working on for a year. Well, actually, Dean from Funk first started talking to me about doing this a LONG time ago, early 2005 I think. Anyway, it’s finally happened and the video which you can see in the full release I linked to above was played on the big screen today at the Podcast Expo in California. Ewan Spence, Scott Sherman and Brian Ibbott from TPN are all there reprezentin’.
As a child of the 70s I grew up watching Monty Python and Fawlty Towers and was a huge fan of John’s. And then when I got into the corporate video space in 1993, John’s video training series was something we all admired as being state of the art.
And of course his work in films such as “A Fish Called Wanda” was also completely genius.
So having the chance to help promote his new work in the era of podcasting is a complete thrill.
I have to thank Dean Whitebread from Funk for bringing the deal to us in the first place and really championing TPN to John and his people. And it wouldn’t have happened without Ewan Spence continually working away behind the scenes as he always does as TPN’s official VP of STUFF to keep the wheels turning.
This week has had it’s share of ups and downs but it’s great to finish it on a high!
by cameron | Sep 28, 2007 | Podcast
I recently caught up with Vanessa Stacy, aka Vanessa the Undressa, aka the Geek Stripper, aka GoldCoastGirl on Twitter, for lunch and a chat about how she uses Web 2.0 tools like MySpace, YouTube and Twitter to market her business – which just happens to be stripping. It was a fascinating discussion for me because I know NOTHING about the business of stripping, and Vanessa shared a bunch of insights into the life. She takes it very seriously, thinks of it as a business, and works it hard.
Here is her website (link) so you can check out her next show in your town!
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by cameron | Sep 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
With the awesome help of Dave Wallace (SL: Dave Koi), TPN now has a HQ in Second Life!
If you’re in Second Life, you can find it here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Liddy/91/148/21
This will be a place where we, TPN hosts and audience, can catch up to solve the world’s problems and extend the conversation that starts in the podcasts and blogs into another dimension.
I tell ya, grabbing some land and putting up a building in SL is very exciting. I’m buzzing!!
by cameron | Sep 27, 2007 | CIA, science, Uncategorized
There aren’t many better ways to arrive home than to find multiple Amazon boxes sitting on your front doorstep! Thanks to Nick Hodge, Caitlin Kelly (Aussies) and Wilson Roberto Afonso (Brazil!) for your most generous contribution to my birthday heist! The pile of books beside my bed just rose by six! This is in addition to Andy Brown from the UK who sent me some Napoleon DVD’s a few weeks ago. You guys have significantly improved my week which, with all the server issues I’ve been fighting through, has been incredibly shitty. Thank you for putting a big smile back on my increasingly dour face and stopping me from drinking rat poison for another day at least.
The books I got are:
Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method
Blink
The Case For Mars
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Legacy Of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Accelerando (a sci-fi classic by Charles Stross)
Definitely a bunch of great things to challenge my thinking in a bunch of different ways which will no doubt lead to more interviews! Thanks again folks. You rock.
My birthday (Oct 10) is still a couple of weeks away though, so there is plenty of time for the rest of your to spread the love by buying me shit from my Amazon wishlist and stop me from killing either myself or my IT support people.
by cameron | Sep 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
I went over to Thomas Reynolds’ place tonight to play some HALO 3.
It was awesome. Graphics, gameplay, the way it saves your multiplayer games to the hard drive, and you can play them back, swap camera angles, pause, go into bullet time… wicked.
