by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Video
Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998), Bandit Queen (1994) and his new film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
He writes a very revealing blog (link) and is trying to raise $1 Billion for a new media fund for investment in Asia (link). He was recently at the X | MEDIA | LAB in Melbourne. I captured an interview he did on stage with XML founder, Brendan Harkin.
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by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics
Mike Van Niekerk does it again. Barely a month since James Farmer left Fairyfax as the guy running their blogs,
blogger Jack Marx gets sacked for writing what everyone is thinking about Kevin Rudd. Well I guess we know the lay of the land now people. News Corp is voting Libs and FairyFax are voting ALP. Let the games begin!
This just goes to show what we all know about “old” media – they are “old”. They say “hey! we get new media! we have blogs!” but then they play the same tired old political games they have always played, censoring and editing their content to suit the agenda of their fat, white, rich corporate bosses. Okay – Rupert is hardly fat. But you get my point.
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MEDIA group Fairfax today sacked award-winning blogger Jack Marx after he posted a satirical article imagining what Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd got up to in a New York strip club.
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by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
Chris Pirillo tested out bringing in Skype video onto his Ustream show today by getting me chatting about my recent Windows Vista disasters. Check out the image below. Pretty cool stuff, the way he is pulling in live video. I wish I had a way of doing that.
by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | TPN
It has just been brought to my attention that Podshow seem to still be sucking up TPN feeds and adding them to their directory. Which would be fine, I don’t mind additional exposure, except for this clause in their Terms:
By posting your Member Works on the Member Pages, you are granting PodShow a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Member Works in connection with the operation of the PodShow Websites, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Blog Works, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
Funnily enough, I’m not pleased with that clause. Not to mention that our podcasts clearly state that they are produced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, part of which states “Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.”. And I do believe Podshow is a commercial operation. So they are in breach of our license.
And, on top of that, their directory is broken. According to Podshow, the last episode of G’Day World, and many other of our podcasts, was back in May 2007. WTF? They have raised $24 million from VC and they can’t even get their website to work? What is that?
So anyway, I’ll be sending them an email today asking them to cease and desist. I suggest other podcasters make sure they do the same.
by cameron | Aug 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Chris and the folks at Digial Ministry have stopped allowing people to register for their Facebook group just below the 1000 cutoff and have listed their reasons on their site. Interesting position. I personally don’t think Facebook groups are very useful at the moment. I find them incredibly difficult to monitor. It isn’t user friendly at all. All they have going for them is the incredibly viral nature of them. I suspect they will get better in the not-too-distant-future though.
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h) Finally – and this is really the biggie… If we had put our brand and hard work on the line and invited ALL of our existing community members to go join the groups on Facebook… or spent marketing $ on promoting an application on your behalf.. without first finding out the above issues: Would we have made a big mistake that we may not recover from by handing you our users, budget and content? OR – would we find that in the end, we still have a large Knowledge IP advantage and back-up infrastructure over the new “Facebook click-and-build” barons who do not have this advantage of learning? We reckon the former.
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