I just saw Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” at my local cinema and it had a huge impact on me. I started asking myself what we could do at TPN to help promote the film. We’ve got ~300,000 listeners and I want to do what I can to help spread the word. The obvious [...]

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Yesterday my mate Shane Williamson in Sydney skyped me (long time listeners might remember him from G’Day World #3) and then he conferenced in our mate Brenton Perry (who was on G’Day World #132) at home in Texas. Shane, Brenton and I all used to work [...]

 

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Paull Young is a young whippersnapper PR guy in Brisbane who is one of Australia’s most active PR blogger/podcasters. I chatted with him recently about PR blogging and podcasting.
The G’Day World Theme Song: “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!

 

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Okay, I know this is kind of sad, but…. I’m batching it this weekend and I’m looking for something to do in Melbourne on a Friday and Saturday night. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to entertain myself. What should I do? Here’s what I like:

weird shit
good jazz
good rock
arty shit
watching weird ass people

Suggestions? [...]

Listening this morning to "Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose", Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s new third installment of the story of … of… what the hell is this the story of? I have no idea. I’ve been listening to the original Bat Out Of Hell for 30 years and I’m completely [...]

Okay I know I’m slow off the mark on this one, but I’ve just installed and started playing with Last.FM and it’s… pretty frakkin cool. Here’s my profile if you care. And here’s a list of the top listened to artists on my iPod. Keep in mind my iPod is only a couple of months [...]

Molly Malone just let me know that the little podcast I do with J. David Markham about Napoleon Bonaparte has cracked the Top 100 in the Australian iTunes directory. It’s currently at #90. Who would have thought that many people are interested in Napoleon? 

I’m speaking tomorrow morning (Thursday Sept 26) at the Australian Marketing Institute breakfast about "Brands and Blogging". Also speaking is Paul Crisp who (according to the bio on the AMI site) manages public affairs for Telstra’s Consumer Marketing and Channels Division. He also leads Telstra’s New Media Project, managing the company’s corporate blog at www.nowwearetalking.com.au and [...]

Feeling confused about whether or not climate change is really a threat? Good. That’s exactly what they want you to feel. Confused.
I was having a conversation about this with a friend over lunch during the week and he explained to me how the big oil companies fund hundreds of small lobby groups who purport to [...]

That and other very fine words of advice can be found in "Satan’s Training Brochure", WW Turmel’s guide to Middle Management behaviours. I’m pretty sure some of my past bosses had read this, especially the chapter entitled "Getting To Maybe:- Delayed Decision Making For the Budget-Constrained". In fact, I think I know some venture capitalists [...]