by cameron | May 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
I’m starting another fast today. So if I go a bit wonky (more wonky than usual) you know why. It’s time for a winter cleanse. Focus the mind. Heal the body. Renew the self-discipline. Hardcore. A little bit of self-denial.
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Christopher Moltisanti RIP. Holy hell, what a scene.
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I’m on a panel (with TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley and SEO guru Jim Stewart) at the evolve 07 marketing conference next month in a session called “Content Anarchy: Lunaticsandasylums”. Should be fun. If you’re going to be there, come and say hi.
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I recently ordered some new business cards from moo. What a great service. Fast, cheap, sent to my door, faster than the cards I normally get printed here in Melbourne! Definitely a keeper. They have the G’Day World album art on the back.
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I caught up with the Managing Director of Rubber Records recently and he gave me a CD with some of their recent tracks. They have some GREAT bands: Offcuts, Andrew Morris, The Exploders, GB3, The Casanovas – I’ve played this CD a bunch of times and these are some killer tracks. Good to hear some good Aussie rock. We really need an Aussie rock show on TPN.
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by cameron | May 17, 2007 | media 2.0, Melbourne
I had a terrific time at The Domain event in Melbourne last night. Full congrats to Sally and Deb for putting it on and to Brad “Best Technology Industry Journalist†Howarth for his interview with Aussie digital media pioneer Domenic Carosa from Destra. I’ve known Dom for quite a few years now but have never really had the chance to sit down with him over a few beers and hear him talk from the gut. It was great to hear his passion for his business and for digital media come out. I admire greatly what he has done since he and his sister started the business in 1993 when he was only 18! He said last night that neither of them took a single cent in income for the first 7 years! They were living at home with their parents. Now THAT’S a start-up baby.
The only worrying moment of the night was when I went up to say g’day to Brad and he said to the people he was with “now here’s the one person I am afraid of”. Little ol’ me Bradley? Oh buddy. I’m sweet as pie. Why afraid?
Scienta was there. Jeremy from Skylook was there. Paul McKenna from Computer Trader was there. And his partner in the SMS business, Carl Krumins from K.A.S. The three of us talked long and hard about how to use SMS to help Father Bob raise money and how to use SMS as a feedback mechanism for podcasts. I finally got to meet the famous Kerri Lee Sinclair after hearing about her for many years. And James Tuckerman from Australian Anthill magazine was there. What a terrific story there guys have. I can’t wait to get him the show to tell you about their history. Brilliant start-up story.
I hope MODM is half as good as last night was. It’ll be our first real event (the last one was more of a planning event for this one) and, like all good things, I’m sure it will take a while to find its feet, but with Dr Peter Ellyard there as our guest, we’re off to a flying start.
by cameron | Apr 28, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
I had a rare fatherly moment today and realized that as my sons are growing up in Melbourne I should take them to the footy, just once, so they can realize why they will never want to go again. So I jumped onto Ticketmaster to see how much tickets are. $33 for an adult! $5.30 for a kid! Add train tickets or parking into the equation, and it’s a $60 day out, not including beer and hotdogs (for them, I would never touch the stuff).
I’m not spending $60 taking my kids to something I’d never go to myself. Ridiculous. $60 to watch a bunch of men in tight shorts run around chasing a little leather ball for two hours? I could buy the kids a new DS game for that. They’ll get MUCH more entertainment out of that than two hours.
And they won’t get drunk or have to cuss at an umpire to boot.
by cameron | Apr 26, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast
My guest today is Campbell Sallabank, CEO of LinkMe, a Melbourne-based social networking site that allows you to upload your resume and market yourself to thousands of recruiters and employers who are looking for staff.
Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – +613 9016 9699.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Apr 25, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
So last night, as promised, we held MODM #1, the meetup for Melbourne’s Online Digital Media community. There were thousands of us there, spilling out into the street, dancing semi-naked on the tables, causing riots, drinking shots, it was absolutely wild. You really missed out if you weren’t there. The things I saw would shock you to the core.
Anyway, make sure you don’t miss the next one.
Details will be worked out over on our new MODM Forum.
by cameron | Apr 23, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, censorship, climate change, Culture Jamming, energy, energy debate, environment, freedom of speech, Melbourne, movies, Podcast
No guest today, just a bit of a chat about:
Robert Rodriguez’s cooking show on the Sin City Recut DVD
this report that less than 7% of Australians believe cosmetics advertising
a review of “The Receipt” by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, currently showing in the Melbourne Comedy Festival
ExxonSecrets, a site that helps you follow the money behind the climate change skeptics
my review of George Romero’s 1985 classic “Day Of The Dead”
my review of Danny Boyle’s current film “Sunshine” starring Aussie actress Rose Byrne and Cillian Murphy
the spoof website MiningNSW which the Mining Council of NSW has been trying to shut down
and then I finish with a little chat about my friend, the darkness, and what to do about it.
Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – Aussies can dial into +613 9016 9699. The rest of you can either pay international charges (cmon, what price can you put on being on my show??) or just start begging me to set up an international number.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
