Is Andy Delin the new Scoble? A Microsoft blogger with enough balls / management support to say what he thinks even when it may not be completely obsequious? Let’s hope so… especially after I post this up there!
His recent review of Outlook 2007 : "so far I haven’t found too many changes of significance… In [...]

Chavez is making geopolitics interesting again. Just as it looks like the Fidelissimo is riding off into a khaki sunset, along comes Hilarious Hugo with his attacks on Bush. According to The Australian:

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has taken his anti-imperialist rhetoric to New York’s Harlem overnight and ridiculed US President George W. Bush as a [...]

Spechty has too much time on his hands (shouldn’t you be killing evil spirits from the TPN forums? )

I saw a Diggnation South Park spoof on Rasterbator using an online South Park creation tool, very cool. I thought I would have a play with it over lunch but needed a subject.
I decided to pick [...]

I’m in the planning stages for a series of interviews for G’Day World which will contain in-depth interviews with Melbourne’s leading business people. I want to know what makes them tick, how they got started, about their biggest successes, biggest mistakes, and lifetime ambitions.
First cab off the rank will be Geoff Lord. I’ve got an [...]

Mary Jane Watson… sorry, I mean MARY JO FOLEY… has announced she is no longer writing for Microsoft Watch and is now going to be writing a blog about Microsoft as her own business.
I’m interested in this for a few reasons.

I had the opportunity to meet MJ last year at a flashy party [...]

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Rich and Cam are back and we’ve decided it’s: NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY!!

Uni Prof told to pull down his podcasts
David Weinberger coins the term “Freechasing” - free as in peanuts
Microsoft takes on YouTube with “Soapbox“
Peter Thiel’s investment in life extension research
The TPN dinner highlights, including [...]

 

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WWT, host of one of TPN’s top rating podcasts, The Cranky Middle Manager Show, has been interviewed in depth by John C Havens on About.com’s podcasting page. It’s a terrific and revealing interview, even though he manages to take an in advertent dig at me for putting out longer shows! He has a lot of [...]

Nick Randolph has taken over hosting TPN’s Microsoft Developer podcast. In his first episode, he’s talking with a bunch of experienced user group co-ordinators about the different .Net user groups across Australia and New Zealand. Welcome to TPN Nick!

From the Mprize press release today:

Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of online payments system PayPal, Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, and angel investor in social networking site Facebook, has announced his pledge of $3.5 Million to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal [...]