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Finding Ada Day: Interview with Kate Carruthers, and Countess Lovelace

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

A really big thanks to Kate Car­ruth­ers for com­ing to the digital cot­tage for the in-studio inter­view. Show notes: /* default css */ table { font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; border-collapse: col­lapse; } tr { text-align: left; } div, address, ol, ul, li, option, select { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } p { mar­gin: 0px; } […]

Thinking Thursday

Friday, March 13th, 2009

In a strange con­flu­ence of the digital uni­verse, two of Australia’s lead­ing inter­net thinkers: Stilgher­rian (Stilgher­rian Live) and Cameron Reilly (G’Day World Live); con­duc­ted live broad­casts last night. The round out the ser­i­ous­ness, I broad­cast and recor­ded my second “Stilgherrian’s Under­study” show Some for­warn­ing. I do swear. I do use tech­nical words. Great music is included, […]

Painting in Sand

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Recently exper­i­enced at Sydney’s Power­house Museum

Respecting the Snacker: Video Producer’s Perspective

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Audio is not video without pic­tures: respect the form and video Respect the form: move­ment, rule of thirds, watch other’s videos, adapt Respect the time of the viewer: what is the story you are try­ing to con­vey? When pro­du­cing, have a time budget in mind. Short form, edit­ing is OK. Thanks jjpro­jects for the ping.

Microsoft Popfly, Builderau Interview

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Want to be famous? Go large at Virtual TechEd 2007

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Vir­tual TechEd will be at TechEd Aus­tralia. This is a major coup as Microsoft con­tin­ues to evolve the TechEd format. As you can see from the exist­ing con­tent on Vir­tual TechEd, if you have some­thing to say to the world: now is the time to stand up and be inter­viewed! Com­ment here/send me an email […]

AUReMIX07: The Movies

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Photo: delic8genius Just before I depart for a hol­i­day, I’ve pumped out three videos Inter­view­ing ReMIX attendees on Web­Jam My Microsoft Pop­fly present­a­tion The Geek Stories, ReMIX

Alive at Pamplona

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Hey, Jeffa The Geek Stor­ies has the scoop, before The New Invent­ors: watch the inter­view with the Alive Tec CEO Bruce Satch­well — that blue device attached to the patient is made on the Gold Coast! Email­ing Bruce last night, apart from com­ple­ment­ing me on my sharp eyes and good memory — he also broke the news […]

Beginning of Gonzo Video Journalism

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A unique pro­gram on the ABC 10 years ago, John Safran ruled. “Race Around the World” pit­ted ama­teur video­graph­ers against each other, as they traveled around the world get­ting stor­ies. Han­dic­ams, simple edit­ing and excel­lent stor­ies pre-dated the intraweb pseudo-stars doing long-form inter­views or strap­ping a cam­era to their head. Go have a look at John […]

Don’t Stop Now — Crowded House

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

(Photo: Matt Sher­rod, Neil Finn from video clip Don’t Stop Now) Neil Finn and Crowded House at their best. video: Watch the video now Gui­tar weird­ness at 2:20 and lyr­ical changes at 3:00 into the song. Love it.

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