On this special episode, TPN’s Ewan Spence chats with Jason Calacanis, who now holds the titles of CEO of WeblogsInc, General Manager of Netscape.com, and Senior Vice-President of AOL. Jason talks about his offer to Amanda Congdon and the re-launch of Netscape.
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… you go interstate and forget your laptop power pack? If I’m offline for a while in the next 24 hours, you know why.
Hard to come up with a funny title for this post. Of course the biggest news in podcasting today is that the pretty blonde goddess of the video podcast is parting ways with Rocketboom. Why? No-one really knows. But I guess it drives home to me a couple of points.
Whoever picks up Amanda will have the same burst of attention that PodTech got when they hired Scoble (check out the pretty graph). Snapping her up and offering her something big was clever. I think. But although she is a huge property today, will she be huge tomorrow? I don’t know yet how much stock to put in the idea of talent in this world. In the days of yore, big names were partially big because their employers controlled the airwaves and could limit how many talents got a guernsey. It was limited supply. Carson was Carson, partly because he was a huge talent, but partly because he didn’t have much competition. Today competition is limitless. Talent? Well I’ve known lots of people in my time who were talented but didn’t have distribution. Today they can all have distribution if they want it. It’ll be fascinating to see how this all pans out over the next decade.Â
UPDATE: Andrew Baron’s (her partner) statement on why she left.
Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-hosts Mike Seyfang and Nick Hodge, as they try to figure out why Eddie McGuire wants to “bone” TV presenter Jessica Rowe, why the Aussie Prime Minister cares about Big Brother, and you would want a Bionic Arm!
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Wayne Turmel is one of only a handful of TPN hosts that I have actually met in the flesh. When I was in NYC last year, Wayne and Scott Sherman managed to get themselves to NYC to have a drink (or two) with me, which was awfully nice of them.
Anyway, Wayne has written another book and it’s available today an e-book from his site. I’ve read it already and it’s terrific. It’s designed for those of you who spend your life in meetings. Fortunately for me, I am no longer one of those people but I feel your pain. I spent enough years in the corporate world to know what it’s like. This book will help you take control of the time spent in meetings which in turn will let you spend more time listening to podcasts on The Podcast Network. What more can you ask for?
As Wayne says:
It’s called “Meet Like You Mean Itâ€- a Cranky Middle Manager’s Guide to Productive and Painless Meetingsâ€.
The greatest praise and the biggest criticism I’ve heard are the same thing- it reads like the show sounds. One person called it “Stanley Bing meets the Training Manualâ€. Hopefully you’ll laugh, you’ll definitely recognize yourself and others, and you’ll find valuable tips for making your meetings less agonizing for you and your team.
It’s available now for download at the CMM store on my website, http://www.achismarketing.com/Meetlikeyoumeanit.html. The cost is $7.97US, which if you figure the cost of a bad meeting, shows ROI pretty darn quickly.
