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Archive for June, 2006

podcast interview with George Clinton, the godfather of funk

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Nui TeKoha has posted up a classic telephone interview with George Clinton up on Nui’s Rave. For you kids out there who don’t know who George is, you would absolutely recognise "bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay" from his classic track Atomic Dog which has been sampled a million times, including Snoop Dogg’s song [...]

GDAY WORLD!!! #138 about Nuclear Energy in Australia, Google Checkout and Google Wallet

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-hosts Mike Seyfang and Rod Adams, as they try to figure out whether or not Australia should go down the nuclear energy path and whether or not Google Checkout and Google Wallet are good or evil!

Don’t forget to pop over to our G’DAY WORLD [...]

 
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Is this the beginning of the podcast chasm?

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Steve Coulson, the guy behind Podguide.TV, one of the leading directories for video podcasts, sent out an email today announcing he is stopping work on it. From his blog post:

This was a hard decision to make, and I want to thank everyone who supported me over the months. I started writing reviews soon after the [...]

GDAY WORLD!!! #137 - What Happened to WinFS and Why Buy Microsoft Vista?

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-host Mike Seyfang, as they try to uncover the truth about WinFS and Vista!
In today’s episode we cold-call a couple of senior folks at Microsoft Australia to try to get them to answer two questions:

What the hell happened with WinFS? Did the web kill it?
What [...]

 
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Who needs FemBots when you can have Erin McNaught (Miss Universe Australia 2006) in ASCII

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I have no idea why I find these ASCII versions of people so hilarious - but I do. Erin McNaught is Australia’s entry into the Miss Universe competition this year and I suspect this ASCII picture was the part of her portfolio that won her the gig. Okay, so she looks okay in flesh-mode as [...]

Treading Lightly launches on TPN

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

If you’re like me, you are increasingly worrying about what we, humans, are doing to the environment and wondering what things you can do to make a difference without necessarily becoming a tree-hugger. This is the show for you. Us. Treading Lightly. Kevin and Jason are two Aussies who are passionate about improving the way [...]

We’ve put out a Podcasting APB!

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Podcasting APB is a new show on TPN, hosted by me, that will focus exclusively on the state of the podcasting industry. We’ll be interviewing top podcasters from around the globe, discovering their motivation and secrets, and keeping you up to date on the news in the industry. I hope you’ll tune in!

TV masses are revolting: The Age

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Thomas Reynolds brought this article in The Age to my attention this morning.

HERE is an idea for a pilot for a new reality television show: it’s about a small coterie of powerful men who grew very rich because they held the only licences to the four television networks that became far and away Australia’s [...]

Companion Link for Google Calendar is here

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Looks like this news is a couple of weeks old, but I just found out about it, so perhaps you missed it as well. Via Shazbot:

CompanionLink for Google Calendarâ„¢ is a two-way synchronization solution for people that want to extend their Google Calendar onto their desktop calendar systems or mobile devices. It can synchronize Google [...]

TPN mentioned in today’s AFR

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

For those of you living in Australia, TPN gets a small but worthy mention in an article of page 16 of the Weekend Australian Financial Review today in a story about radio networks and their podcasting strategies. I’d like to thank Mark Jones, the IT Editor of the Fin for making sure we got a [...]