by cameron | Nov 2, 2007 | Melbourne, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Well folks, here we are, 300 episodes and 3 years in, and I’m just getting warmed up! However, with a new year of G’Day World comes a new format, a new topic and a new question which demands The Cam’s attention – what are you doing on a daily basis to make the world a better place? As you’ll hear in today’s show, that is going to be my focus in the Year Four of G’Day World and TPN.
Also on today’s show, I’ve got a recording from MODM 7 where Simon Chen and I chatted with James Masini, 24-year-old Melbourne entrepreneur and founder of Hippo, an online job board to 15 – 24 year-olds. There’s a lot of background noise and we were standing too far away from the mics, but it’s audible and a great story. I hope you don’t mind the low quality. I was using the new Blue Snowball and Macbook for the first time and over-estimated it’s ability to pick us up amid the noise.
Speaking about my new Macbook Pro – it was sponsored by the awesome folks at Global1Training who are also sponsoring my interview from a few months ago with Dr John Demartini. If you didn’t hear that show, I highly recommend it, especially if you’re feeling like you could be getting a little more out of your life. Demartini has some great tips for asking yourself the right questions.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the show over the last three years – I’ve had the time of my life. Three years making this shit for a living. It should almost be illegal.
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by cameron | Oct 29, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Richard and I had a CEO Club meeting today… CEO Club is something we just invented and we think it’s going to be huge. It’s invite only, CEO’s only, and it takes place in a range of bars…. on a Monday. We intend to have them on a regular basis around the world over the next decade. I hope you get to join us. Here are some photos from the inaugural CEO Club event in Perth today.
What did we talk about at CEO Club? You. Wondering why you weren’t here. Wondering what you are doing with you life. Oh and how we’re going to change the world.
A funny true story – we were leaving Little Creatures, a boutique brewery in Freo where we had lunch, and as we walked out of the front door I ran into my best mate from Melbourne who happened to be having lunch there as well, neither of us knowing the other was in Perth. Small world. Oh, he’s a CEO as well.
This was after we had visited Bon Scott’s grave.
You can see more here.
by cameron | Oct 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Uncategorized
Tonight Jono and Beti (host of TPN’s Health and Fitness Podcast) celebrated the opening of their new store XERO, a very cool tech store at 106 Elgin Street, Carlton.
I presented them with a very wonderful opening night gift – an original copy of Heino‘s ” Halli, hallo, wir fahren” album.
Now… I think everyone at the opening, including Jono, thought I was taking the piss. But really… as everyone in Germany knows, Heino is a complete L E G E N D.
Perhaps it is true that I only paid $1.00 for the copy that I gave them but that is a BARGAIN. It is currently for sale on Ebay for EUR$20.00!
Anyway… if you’re in Melbourne and you want to check out some cool geek stuff, including the Nabaztag, pop in and see Jono and tell him Cam sent ya.
UPDATE: Jono just sent me this. I suspect it was made with Comic Life.
by cameron | Oct 9, 2007 | Melbourne
A new chance to win prizes by expressing how much you love Melbourne over on the Visit Melbourne Red Thread site that launched today.
They have five missions to choose from, each one showcasing a particular aspect of Melbourne lifestyle. You have to tell your story with video or photos and a brief review, then add it to The Red Thread forum by 12pm 16/11/07.
Mrs Cameron is one of the creative geniuses behind the site and campaign. Give it your support and win something! I can’t – family not allowed. Bah.
I think this is a great idea though – Tourism Victoria are using UGC to grab real content about Melbourne by people who live here and then put it up on their site. TV get the content for free, the creators get their work displayed on the #1 Melbourne portal, and the audience get to see/read/hear about the best things Melbourne has to offer.
If I was going to enter, I’d be choosing Mission 6 and I’d be devoting myself to the research of discovering the best dirty martini in Melbourne. Anyone want to help with me research?
by cameron | Oct 5, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Tourism Victoria or the City of Melbourne (not sure which) has set up a display on ABC Island in Second Life which replicates (sort of) the look and feel of Melbourne’s laneways. Lots of stencil art, posters, cafes, etc. They even have the triangles from Fed Square floating in space. Not much to do though. And no-one to meet me when I got there at 2pm on a Friday. So while it seem like they have spent a bit of money on the look, the experience, at least when I went there, was pretty dull.
It reminds me of the talk Gary Wiz (aka Wiz Nordberg in SL) made last night at MODM about how corporations tend to fuck it up when they go into SL because they seem to forget that SL is about relationships and experience and not about pretty things to look at.
I’ve got some additional screenshots of the Melbourne presence in SL on my Flickr.
by cameron | Sep 20, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast
Ben Barren, CEO of Feedcorp, joins me on this show to interview author Adam Shand.
As people in Melbourne will be very aware, in the last decade there was a series of high profile retributional killings involving various underworld groups that cost the lives of at least 28 criminal figures.
Adam Shand, a journalist who works for The Bulletin and Channel Nine’s Sunday program, spent four years researching Melbourne’s underworld and has written a book about it called “BIG SHOTS: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams”. He became close in particular to “drug czar” Carl Williams who is currently serving a minimum term of 35 years in maximum security. Adam gives us a bunch of insight into how Melbourne’s gangland works, the background to the gangland wars over the last decade, the role of the Victorian police, the role of the Victorian mainstream media, and how it could have perhaps been avoided.
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