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Australian Politics on G’day World 299.

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Debating with Cameron Reilly is like fighting an intellectual tornado. Thankfully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot.
In the instance of this podcast, I am speaking for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast)
In retrospect, the discussion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of Geeks for [...]

Duncan Riley, On The Pod #9

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Thanks to Duncan Riley for a great conversation today - now On The Pod, on The Podcast Network.
Articles mention: Jeff Sandquist in the April 2007 Wired.
"The heat internal being 70x" is a littler hyperbolic - more like 70% of the heat is internal when blogger steps outside our blogging guidelines. Some notes on our Policy [...]

October 2007 Presentations

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Thursday 11th and Saturday 13th October in Melbourne for the About Seniors week.
 

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October in Perth for PodCamp Perth.

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How would you answer this question
Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8
More medical stories
Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython

w00t!!1 Podcast Famous

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

After yesterday's unstructured Twitter meetup: The Podcast of the Twitter meetup with a random conversation.
http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/08/23/gday-world-281-melbourne-twitter-lunch/
Thanks Cameron for letting me be heard on Australia's #1 Podcast. I've gotta stop saying the g-word so often.
Yesterday I had consumed +5 standard coffees (my usual day is +2) by the time the podcast was recorded. You can hear the pace [...]

Social Networking: People, not Messages

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

 
What is the Web 2.0 World Saying about you, now?
I strongly recommend any Marketing/PR person just starting out to download and install Particls: http://particls.com/. You can use Particls to watch the internet for you. Enter the phrases and words that are your products and brands, and watch the conversation that ensues.
It is wise to start [...]

Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At the Hill and Knowlton "Surviving and thriving in the next decade - Technology Publishing" Breakfast Bytes this morning, a group of eminent panelists in picture above, from the left:

James Tuckerman – Publishing Editor, AntHill. New relatively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online projects later in 2007.
Heather [...]

Astronauts and Princesses Meme Goes Large

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Uncle Dave, with his new found power of recording his own Podcasts, invited me to yabber on about my week so far.
We subverted the Uncle Mike hierarchy, and had a good show.  Thanks Uncle Dave.

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Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
Australian Politics on G’day World 299.
Duncan Riley, On The Pod #9
October 2007 Presentations
w00t!!1 Podcast [...]

Difference of Opinion: Digital Age

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

It has been an excellent week for the ABC. The Curtin "docu-drama" gave a portrait of a man of his time: Prime Minister John Curtin during the 1941 through 1942.
Last night, Jeff McMullan did a standard "journalistic show" wrapped as debate on new technologies, and the impact on community on "Difference of Opinion: Growing Up [...]