by cameron | Sep 25, 2007 | TPN
It’s almost that time of year when I need to ask TPN’s audience to help us out by completing a survey. This year, for the first time, I’m actually taking the process seriously. This year I want to collect some basic information about the demographics and behaviours of our audience so we can continue to try convincing advertisers that podcasts are a great way to build relationships with their stakeholders. Whilst I know that completing surveys is a pain in the a$$, I’m hoping that our audience will appreciate that we are still here, producing content which you apparently like, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and so far most of us are still doing it for free. However, the bigger TPN gets, the more money we need to spend on infrastructure and so we need to continue to grow our advertising support. Otherwise, this will all disappear. And I’m sure most of you don’t want that to happen.
This year I’m taking the extra step of asking you to help me prepare the survey. I’ve saved a draft up to Google Docs and I’m hoping a few of you might run your eyes over it and give me suggestions for ways to make it better. You can leave your suggested improvements here or email them to me.
Go to the draft!
by cameron | Sep 25, 2007 | Australian media, Podcast
Garry Barker has been a journalist for over 50 years and in that time has had a range of amazing experiences, some of which he shares with me in today’s show. These include working for Rupert Murdoch in 1955, meeting Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in 1962, working in the White House Press Corp during the JFK years, meeting Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and his time as a war correspondent in VietNam.
You can catch Garry every week on TPN’s Take Two podcast where he interviews senior Australian business executives with his fellow journalist Leon Gettler and provides insight and analysis into the week’s business news.
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by cameron | Sep 24, 2007 | Iraq, Uncategorized
I just finished reading William Gibson’s latest novel SPOOK COUNTRY today (it’s a great read btw) and it reminded me of the whole issue of the missing money that went from New York in Iraq from 2003 – 2004 and then disappeared…. $9 Billion out of $12 Billion in cash that was sent to Iraq cannot be accounted for. So I googled it and found this recent interview on Democracy Now with two investigative journalists who have dug further into the story and uncovered some amazing facts.
With this much cash up for grabs, it’s easy to see why war is good for business… for some.
| Billions Over Baghdad: How Did $9B in Cash Airlifted From the Fed to Iraq Go Missing? |
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by cameron | Sep 23, 2007 | Atheism, Podcast, science, science vs religion
I heard about this on a recent episode of the Skeptics Guide To The Universe Podcast. Some guys calling themselves the Extant Dodos have been taking videos posted to the web by the Creation Science Evangelism organisation which “prove” creationist theories and then debunk them, putting the re-edited videos on YouTube. The CSE people don’t like criticism, so they have apparently threatened to sue the Dodos for infringement of copyright and have demanded YouTube take down the Dodos’ videos. The last recourse of people who can’t win an argument must be to sue your critics. The classic bit is that on their website, the CSE folks originally had this clause: “None of the materials produced by Creation Science Evangelism are copyrighted, so feel free to copy those and distribute them freely.”
Read more here.
by cameron | Sep 23, 2007 | US politics
I’ve never really taken the “Google is watching you” conspiracy theories very seriously, but Cory Doctorow has cooked up a scenario in his new short story “Scroogled” which scares the hell out of me. It’s a story about how easy it would be for Google to do a deal with a neo-fascist Government to provide them with information on everything about everybody. In this era of the decline of Western Democracy that we are living in, Google becomes the new secret police, spilling the beans on your entire history. I’ve always held the opinion that “privacy” doesn’t matter unless you have something to be embarrassed about, but Cory’s story dramatizes the scenarios in which you can become a “person of interest” and then “disappeared” if you get in “their” way. You could end up a suicide in Cabo. Make sure you read it.
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