by cameron | Mar 15, 2007 | Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
I caught up again with Dr Peter Ellyard today for another enlightening and invigorating chat about where the world is heading. Every time Peter and I catch up it’s like sticking my fingers in a power socket. I come out of the time with him feeling inspired.
Today we talk about:
Buckminster Fuller’s last book “Critical Path” and some of his recommendations
Some of Peter’s ideas on ways future entrepreneurs can change the world and make BEEEELIONS of dollars
Becoming a “Future Maker”
Why Peter has been a vegan and doing Iyengar yoga for 35 years
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by cameron | Mar 12, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
I know one projectionist who isn’t having a good day. I am sitting in a special preview screening of danny boyles new film sunshine and halfway into the movie it started to go backwards. it was we had suddenly jumped into a david lynch film. it took ten minutes for the cinema folks to notice and stop the screening. the worst news? director boyle is here for a Q&A. so is star rose byrne. at the moment the audience is just taking an unscheduled intermission. UPDATE: its 30 minutes later and we are still waiting. apparently the projectionist discovered that the next reel was reversed as well. ouch. someone is going to get their ass kicked over this. I bet popcorn sales are up though. UPDATE 2: well another half hour has past and we are still sitting here. thank god I have my ipod and dopod. Popcorn Taxi, the organisers of the event, are still trying to get it sorted but have offered everyone a refund if they don’t want to hang around. I’m sticking around for the Q&A. They should have brought Boyle out to chat to the crowd while we wait….
FINAL UPDATE: when they finally got the film re-started after an hour, it was the wrong reel. so they let it run for ten minutes then stopped it for good. Boyle explained that the reels are all in the wrong order and there is no way of telling which order to run it in without him watching all of it first. So we are doing Q&A without having seen the film….
FINAL UPDATE 2: I’m home now. Popcorn Taxi, who do a great job putting on these events in Melbourne, told everyone that they will get a free ticket to see SUNSHINE when it opens. Danny Boyle and Rose Byrne did a great job at the Q&A. She seemed more pissed off than he did – perhaps because it was the first chance she had to see the finished film as well. She said that when she first realized the reel was “fucked up” (her words), she had to leave the cinema. I thought Boyle would be majorly pissed off but he seemed to take it in his stride with good humour, which made the audience relax. I guess I can’t do the review of the film that I hoped to but I can say that the 35 – 45 minutes of it that I saw – out of order – I very much enjoyed. I look forward to seeing it properly when it opens.
by cameron | Mar 9, 2007 | Australian politics, Melbourne, Podcast, technology
On episode 211 my guests are Dr Phil Burgess, Group Managing Director, Public Policy and Communication, Telstra and Garry Barker, Technology Editor at The Age. We spent an hour at Telstra’s Melbourne offices this morning discussing the state of broadband in Australia.
Phil is often in the news (here are some recent stories) debating the broadband issue with other Australian corporate executives, the ACCC and the Federal Government, but this is a rare opportunity to hear him speak (loudly and passionately) about Telstra’s official position on the broadband debate for an hour.
Thanks to Phil and Garry for participating and to Paul Crisp and Rod Bruem at Telstra for making it happen. I know Phil is a supporter of blogs and podcasts (he is the guy who make Telstra’s ‘Now We Are Talking’ blog happen) so hopefully this will just be the first of many such conversations.
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by cameron | Mar 5, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, TPN
So on Saturday I was standing in a newsagents in Melbourne, scanning the magazine racks while I was drinking a Coke during a break in my stencil art course, and I spot Australian PC Authority magazine’s cover story “The New Web – Create Your Own Podcasts, Blogs, Video”.
So I flick through it to the podcast section, skim it and read:
“Of course, just like blogs, anyone can do it. That means there are a lot of podcasts out there that air to five people, and a lot of poor-quality podcasts alongside the very good ones,” said Ewan Spence, executive director at The Podcast Network (www.thepodcastnetwork.com), which produces over 60 different shows.
The first thing I think is “Where the hell did he get THAT title??”, then I start wondering why an Aussie magazine is quoting Ewan and not yours truly.
So when Ewan and I were on Skype tonight I asked him and he said he didn’t remember ever giving them a quote. I googled his words and found the entire story was lifted from the Dec 2006 edition of PC Pro magazine in the UK. It’s a shame an Aussie magazine (selling for $9.50) couldn’t even research their own story. Ed Dawson, the editor of PC Authority, should feel free to contact me for any future stories on podcasting. Not that I’m complaining about the free press. It’s all good!
I think this is the first time someone from TPN has been quoted in the mainstream press without us knowing about it. Surely that’s a turning point in any company’s timeline?
by cameron | Mar 5, 2007 | Melbourne
Next Monday night (March 12th) I’m going to check out the preview screening of Danny Boyle’s new film “Sunshine”. He’s in Melbourne for it and is doing a Q&A afterwards. Tickets from Popcorn Taxi.
by cameron | Mar 2, 2007 | Melbourne
I’ve always wanted to be part of a flashmob. Join the merriment here.
