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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.

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 in […]

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 your […]

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 Craven — […]

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.

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 […]