G’Day World #201 – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Comics

Brian Shearer is the co-host of TPN’s latest podcast “Comic Review Weekly” and he’s a real life “comic book guy”. You can check out his work (with his partner Marty Blevins) at Gravyboy.com. Gravyboy is the story of a superhero who, instead of being given the power to control gravity, is, due to something of a clerical error, given the power to control gravy. Funny, huh?

Gravyboy

Anyway, I dragged Brian kicking and screaming onto G’Day World to chat about comics. We tackle issues such as:

  • Why comics are an important form of 21st century literature
  • Where to start if you aren’t currently into comics
  • Why comics are taking off more online
  • How to get a job in comics
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    The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.

    Thank You Bob Lefsetz

    My Van Halen technorati feed picked up this post by A VC talking about Bob Lefsetz’s podcast. Lefsetz is a “music industry insider” who sounds like he stepped out of a Scorsese film. Yeah I know he’s Jewish but a good mob film always has one Jewish guy who the wiseguys kind of tolerate because he makes them lots of green. A N Y W A Y … Bob does this brilliant podcast for Rhino Records and this episode is all about VAN HALEN. It is simply BRILLIANT. Thank you Bob, you made my morning. This is what podcasting is all about.

    G’Day World #200!! – Never Look Back

    So I had something really BIG planned for this show but, well, like most of the big plans I have, this one didn’t pan out in time. Instead, I’ve done a little retrospective of some of what I think the high points have been for the show over the last 200 episodes. In order of appearance you’ll hear short clips from my interviews with:

  • Noam Chomsky
  • Ray Kurzweil
  • David Weinberger
  • Doc Searls
  • Dr Aubrey de Grey
  • Robert Scoble
  • Thanks for still listening folks. You’ve made an old man very hard. I mean happy.

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    The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.

    GooSync borked my calendar

    I installed GooSync last week to give it a test ride. If you haven’t heard of GooSync yet, it purports to be the Holy Grail that will synchronize your Outlook Calendar (boo! hiss!) with your Google Calendar (yay! hurrah!). This is especially important for those of us with Pocket PC / Windows Mobile devices who want to be able to swan around at meetings and enter appointments into our diaries but be able to synch them with the online version.

    I’ve been doing this successfully for a couple of months using Funambol but it’s a desktop app and GooSync is a Pocket PC app which makes a lot more sense.

    ANYWAY… the bottom line is that when I tested GooSync it borked my calendar. After three synchs, I ended up with three different versions of most of my appointments in both the Outlook and the Google calendars and some were even at different times to the original! I was able to go through Outlook and delete most of the erroneous entries but you can’t do that as easily with GCal, so I had to delete the whole frikkin calendar and start again (fortunately that’s a pretty painless process).

    Anyone else having trouble with GooSync or know the reason for my troubles?

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