GDAY WORLD #220 - Russell Buckley on Mobile Marketing and Slavery
Russell Buckley is a pommy (did you know that pommy is most-likely a contraction of the word “pomegranate”?) living in Munich and, as CEO of AdMob, one of the world’s leaders in the field of mobile marketing.
When he recently criticized some of the ads running on this show, I decided to get him on to pick his brains. We talked mostly about the state of mobile marketing and other mobile trends, as well as a little about the song “Amazing Grace”, slavery and veganism.
Russell has provided these links (and ageist advice):
www.peperonity.com
www.itsmy.com
“Don’t forget you have to see them on a handset (and be a little younger!) to get full value.”
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March 29th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Very interesting show.
If you haven’t read Affluenza and you’d like to Cam, I have a copy you could borrow.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
thanks Mim. I’d like to read it but as a rule I try not to borrow books. I have a habit of never giving them back. And then I just feel guilty.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
That can be an issue. I still have my aunts copy of “the coming plague” I’ve had it for years now. I’m sure she’ll ask for it back if she needs it though so I’m not overly fussed.
Perhaps the rule should be only borrow books from people who you know will nag you to get them back
March 30th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Just a comment about the “pommy” origin. There is a school of thought who believe it came from the convict days when the prisoners had “POHM” marked on their shirts which stood for “Prisoner of His Majesty”.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:31 am
yeah mum I read that too, but according to wikipedia:
“These etymologies are believed to be false, as the term “pommy” was coined long before acronyms were used in common parlance. Moreover, there is no record of prisoners in Australia ever wearing such uniforms.”
March 30th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Thanks for inviting me on the show, Cam.
Another relevant bit of Aussie slang is actually “Buckley’s Chance” as in “You don’t have a Buckley’s [chance] of finding the real origin of Pom”.
Again the origins are a little obscure, but one of my distant relatives obviously wasn’t too successful at something down under!
Russell
March 30th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Thanks for coming on Russell. According to this site (http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/Oct%202000/Buckley’s.html), there seems to be little idea who Buckley was at all! How strange that the origin of the phrase, which is VERY common even today, should be unknown.
Of course, people who follow the AFL might suggest it nowadays relates to the captain of the Collingwood footbal team, Nathan Buckley, and his chances of winning a Premiership. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Buckley)
For the record, I had dinner with Nathan about ten years ago, and found him to be a nice bloke.
March 30th, 2007 at 10:35 am
There were quite a few Buckley’s which have been suggested as possible origins of the term however an escaped convict seems to be the most likely option.
Then there’s the expression “Buckley’s and none” which was probably a pun on the Melbourne department store “Buckley and Nunn”.
Gotta love Australian slang.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:50 am
The department store makes sense. I always thought Buckley must have been one of those outback explorers who never made it home.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I agree with the other comment I always thought it came from the mark POHM convicts had marked on their cloths “Prisoner of His Majestyâ€. All the best Jim