by cameron | May 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
My screensaver threw up this image today and it prompted me to throw a few old photos up into my Flickr. These were taken in Feb 2005, when I was at DEMO in Scottsdale, Arizona, thanks to the conniving of Buzz Bruggeman and Robert Scoble. I launched TPN while I was there. This shot is, L to R, Shel Israel, Cameron Reilly, Robert Scoble. I remember us being in Shel’s car when he and Robert found out they had landed a publishing deal to write a book on blogging which ended up being “Naked Conversations“, a milestone in the history of corporate blogging. Check out the other photos of me with Jason Calacanis, Buzz, Marc Orchant and Dan Bricklin, genius inventor of the world’s first electronic spreadsheet. Good times.
by cameron | May 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
The TPN IT boys asked me to test the image upload function in WordPress so I thought I’ve give you all something to pin up on the walls of your cubicles. 🙂
by cameron | May 25, 2007 | TPN
I suck at show names. Our strategy for the last couple of years has been to stay pretty basic. “The PSP Show”, etc. But in some cases, that kind of self-descriptive naming convention doesn’t work. I need help from some clever creative types to help us come up with new names for upcoming shows. Anyone out there want to help?
The first show is the one that Stan Relihan is going to produce on business networking – using new tools like LinkedIn, etc, but also using old fashioned f2f methods. How do you build a powerful business network and then leverage it effectively?
The names we’ve been tossing around like “The Art Of Business Networking” just sound either too klutzy or too much like a Tony Robbins seminar.
Any suggestions???
by cameron | May 24, 2007 | energy, energy debate, Podcast, science, science vs religion
Rod Adams, host of TPN’s Atomic Show, joins me today to talk about nuclear energy vs solar and religion vs science.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | May 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Amazing isn’t it how sometimes songs you heard in your childhood but that didn’t really GRAB you back then can come back to you 20 years later and BLOW YOU AWAY!
SUPERNAUT by Black Sabbath of their 4th album, mysteriously titled “Black Sabbath Vol. 4”. What demon of the Underworld rose up to give Tony Iommi that marvelous riff? I haven’t been able to get it out of my head all day. And Ozzy’s lyrics!! Check them out:
I want to reach out and touch the sky
I want to touch the sun
But I don’t need to fly
I’m gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
And find a distant man a-waving his spoon
Okay Oz, you had me until the last line. You want to try it all, experience it all, taste it all. I’m with you brother, I really am. But a man waving a spoon? WTF? I know, “moon” is hard to rhyme without resorting to Buddy Holly “June”, “soon”. What about “And when I’m 60 I’ll look like a prune.”? That would have been accurate if not poetic.
I’ve crossed the ocean, turned every bend
I found the crossing near a golden rainbow’s end
I’ve been through magic and through life’s reality
I’ve lived a thousand years and it never bothered me
A thousand years! A man I can look up to. A transhumanist before we had such a word.
Got no religion, don’t need no friends
Got all I want and I don’t need to pretend
Don’t try to reach me, ’cause I’d tear up your mind
I’ve seen the future and I’ve left it behind
Me either Ozzy. Who needs friends? I’ve seen the future too and it ain’t pretty. I’m running it. Trust me. Not pretty.
And then at the 2’50”, after a blistering Iommi solo, we go from the heaviest riff in history into a… samba??? Cowhorns, pepper shakers, and washboard??? WTF???
I dunno, but I’m loving it. Worked out the riff on my guitar (not hard, five notes) and been playing it LOUD for my neighbour’s appreciation for the last 15 minutes.
Thank GOD for the Sabbs.
Get a preview of the track at Amazon. I do not recommend downloading the whole 2CD Best Of Black Sabbath from a torrent service like this one. That’s just not on kids.
