My co-host, the right honourable J. David Markham, did an interview recently with a journalist from USA TODAY and as a result our little show got a small mention in a bigger article about podcasting. Of course, they named the show incorrectly and didn’t link to it in the online article, but it’s still nice of them.
Here’s an online copy of the article.
Tonight is the first edition (if you don’t count a couple of false starts) of GDAY WORLD BITCH SESSION. Your chance to come on the show and bitch to me about anything you like. I’ll try to do one of these each week. You can bitch to me about stuff that’s been on the show recently, the show in general, life in general, or just bring your own baggage. Your daddy didn’t love you? Bitch to me about it. You can’t get laid? Blame me. You need marital advice? I’m your man.
Tonight was a pretty slow start. I started off by myself, nothing wrong with a little onanism, so I indulged and chatted about Priscillian, the first Christian “heretic” executed by Christians in 385 CE. His crime? He said Christians should lead more ascetic lives, avoid marriage, and retreat from “worldly honors”. At the Council of Toledo in 400, fifteen years after Priscillian’s death, when his case was reviewed, the most serious charge that could be brought was the error of language involved in a misrendering of the word innascibilis (“unbegettable”).
Then I’m joined by Urbaer and we talk about religion. Are Taoism and Confucianism religions or just social philosophies? Should Christianity become a social philosophy and leave behind it’s supernatural aspects?
I also show Urbaer the new TPN homepage which went up tonight. This is version 3.0 of the TPN homepage and we’ve been working on it, on and off, for about 10 months. It’s a relief to finally have it up. Version 2 lived WAY beyond it’s due by date. Mano and his team have done a great job pulling this together.
Finally we are joined by Molly and the Randulo, an American in Paris, who tells us about his wine podcast and the 24-hour podathon he is running on TalkShoe this week to raise money for third-world entrepreneurs.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
Ewan Spence is podcasting his little highland heart out at SXSW (on TPN Tech Conf and now also at SXSW Baby) and he just did an interview with Harry Knowles, the legendary film nut behind Ain’t It Cool News! That’s awesome! I’ve been a fan of Harry’s for years and years. Well done Spencester!
Yet again, Ewan Spence is packing up his old kit bag, and his faithful sidekick Crow, and spending a month annoying the hell out of the Americans, all for the benefit of TPN’s Tech Conference Show!
With coverage from BarCamp Scotland, BarCamp Austin, SXSW Interactive, SXSW Film, SXSW Music, BlogHer Business 07 and O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference 2007, we really will be taking the Tech Conference Show everywhere… so you don’t have to.
He kicks it off today with a show recorded at Barcamp Scotland.
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?
Mark Hunter, he of the Connery-smooth accent from TPN’s “Mellow Monday” podcast, has launched another podcast on TPN – The Playstation 3 Podcast!
