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Podcast title	TPN :: GDay World
Website URL	http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet...
Description	Cameron Reilly, CEO of The Podcast Network, interviews the world's leading thinkers about the issues facing us today and into the future.
Updated	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:52:24 +0000
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1. G’Day World #357 - The Sammartino Method During A Crisis http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 36.78Mb) Description: First show for 2009! Steve Sammartino, who you may remember from our earlier shows (see: G’Day World #336 - The Sammartino Method (aka How To Get Rich Slowly and Surely)), joins me again tonight to revisit the investment strategy he discussed with us back in July 2008. Now that the world is in the worst [...]
2. The Definition of Atheism http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It’s about time people started to understand that atheism is NOT a belief. It is the ABSENCE of belief. It is the OPPOSITE of belief. The root of atheism is, of course, theism: belief in the existence of a god or gods ; specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the [...]
3. the Gobblededook Of the Day Award http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: reconnection Originally uploaded by cameronreilly … goes to TheReconnection.com. I saw this flyer at a local cafe and got such a laugh out of it, I had to share it. I especially love the second paragraph: “The Reconnection (TM) bring in “new” axiatonal lines that enable us to standardize unique vibratory levels and frequencies for healing and ultimately, [...]
4. Read the Register of Senators’ Interests here http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Awesome work from Matt and Kat over at OpenAustralia (see my June 2008 interview) who are… … the first website to make the Register of Senators’ Interests available online. This important public document until now has only been available to the small number of people who were able to visit the office in Canberra where the [...]
5. Faith versus the scientific method http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Faith versus the scientific method \| Digital Bits Skeptic
6. Gaza and the US Corporate Media http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A good analysis of the way that the US corporate media is (yet again) providing a sterilized version of events involving one of the US’s allies (puppet states): Gaza and the US Corporate Media (from Muzzlewatch)
7. Towards a robotic society in 2020? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: ‘just as we depend upon mobile phones and cars in our daily lives today, the next 15 years will see mass hybridization between humans and robots.’ Towards a robotic society in 2020? \| Emerging Technology Trends \| ZDNet.com
8. Nanotechnology’s biggest stories of 2008 (New Scientist) http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Although these stories don’t cover what I think of as “true nanotech” (ie building devices and machines that are nanometers in size), they do demonstrate some of the amazing possibilities of engineering the right molecules into the right structures. Nanotechnology’s biggest stories of 2008 - tech - 27 December 2008 - New Scientist
9. The Cuban Revolution Turns 50 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: On January 1, 1959, General Fulgencio Batista took the coward’s way out and deserted his troops in Cuba and Fidel Castro’s revolution began. Whatever you think about Fidel and the revolution, it’s amazing that this tiny country, so close to it’s enemy who happens to be the most powerful military force on earth, has maintained [...]
10. UN official calls Israel ‘Apartheid’ http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From ‘Real News‘: From Amnesty: Gaza by the numbers. It’s a shocking story. And, of course, Bush is on Israel’s side. Although Obama hasn’t said anything publicly about the current violence, he has spoken about his support for Israel on several occasions.
11. Richard Falk’s expulsion from Israel http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Richard Falk is professor of international law at Princeton University and the UN’s special rapporteur (a person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation and report to that body) on the Palestinian territories. On Dec 14, while leading a mission to visit the West Bank and Gaza to prepare a [...]
12. Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: If you are looking for the other side of the story regarding the current attacks on Gaza by Israel, I recommend the following blog post by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian democracy activist, Presidential candidate and Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. Mustafa Barghouti - Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood \| Sabbah
13. Does Anyone Have A G’Day World Archive? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: If anyone out there has a good collection of old G’Day World episodes - say from 001 to 300 - could you let me know? My old PC hard drive died about a year ago and I think I’ve lost most of them.
14. The Evangelical Heretic http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I listened to this episode of “This American Life” in the car tonight and it’s fascinating. It’s basically the story of a hugely popular black evangelical preacher in Oklahoma, Carlton Pearson, who spent 30 years building a congregation in the thousands, was invited to the White House by three Presidents… and then one day decided [...]
15. Rosanne’s belly at Woodford http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Rosanne’s belly This morning I sat on a 90 minute panel at the Woodford Folk Festival with Rosanne Bersten (whose 8-month pregnant belly is seen on the right with a henna tatoo), Cristen Tilley, an Exec Producer with ABC News Online in Brisbane, and freelance journalist, formerly wtih Crikey, Sarah Stokely. The panel was mysteriously called [...]
16. New York Times Revenue in Free Fall http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Revenue was down 13.9 percent, an acceleration from October’s 9.4 percent drop. Ad revenue was down 20.9 percent, an acceleration from October’s 16.2 percent drop. The really awful news: Internet ad revenue and overall Internet revenue actually declined in November, down 3.8 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively. New York Times: November Was So Terrible, Even Our Internet Ads [...]
17. The G’Day World Guide to The Top 5 Ways to use Twitter http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: As someone who has been using Twitter on a daily basis now for a couple of years, I thought it was time to add my voice to the existing collection about how to use this terrific service. I use Twitter in the same way, and for the same reasons, as most people - for entertainment, [...]
18. A Xmas Card To An Atheist http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I got an email tonight from someone challenging my “belief” in atheism. His email and my reply below (his name and email address deleted). It made my night! Happy Sol Invictus everyone. ———————– On 24/12/2008, at 8:43 PM, xxxxx wrote: Sir Since you so love to flaunt your atheism as if it were an intellectually superiour stance to take, [...]
19. Never Trust Your Government - Part XVII http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The diving team estimates that around four million rounds of U.S.-manufactured Remington .303 bullets lie in the Lusitania’s hold at a depth of 300ft. Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship \| Mail Online
20. G’Day World #356 - Phil Gomes, SVP, Edelman http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 51.91Mb) Description: Forgive me folks. It’s been a month since my last G’Day World. What can I tell ya? I’ve been focusing on making enough cash to keep this thing running. I’ve done a few Napoleon and Biography shows as well, because they were seriously running behind. And, as you know, we’ve had a few technical dramas. [...]
21. AFP changed its position on Haneef http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: John Clarke’s report on the Haneef affair is out and it says that there was no evidence to justify his arrest and treatment by the Australian Federal Police and the Federal Government. The best quote I’ve read is from the Hindustan Times, which write: The report said the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) consistently advised the [...]
22. Bush IT specialist dies in plane crash http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Bush IT specialist dies in plane crash - MarketWatch: “Michael Connell, who operated campaign Web sites for President George W. Bush and GOP presidential nominee John McCain, has died in a plane crash in Ohio.” He was apparently a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case. Back in July, he was asking for protection against threats from [...]
23. The Podcast Network Crashes in a Major Way - The Content Makers http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It’s almost worth (almost!) our recent problems to get this nice note written about us by the venerable Margaret Simons: “The Podcast Network, one of the most notable Australian new media success stories, suffered a massive technical failure over the weekend. If you don’t know about it, you should have a look at the Podcast Network’s [...]
24. TPN Server Issues http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been down for a couple of days. As you can read on the TPN blog, it was due to a hard drive failure on one of the servers. We’re in the process of re-building and it might take a few more days. At the moment we’re missing all of [...]
25. Sol Trujillo’s Back-up Plan http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: So it looks like Telstra’s NBN strategy has massively backfired.You know things are desperate at Telstra when they send my MOTHER an email pleading with her not to sell any shares. Will Sol Trujillo finally have to “leave for personal reasons” as his mate Dr Phil Burgess did six months ago? If so, I think I have [...]
26. Inside World: Those That Fight http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m really enjoying Websinthe’s cartoon series.
27. Microsoft UK Training with David Brent http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: OMFG. I’ve been dying to see this again for years! Before I’d ever heard of Ricky Gervais or The Office, Microsoft UK engaged Gervais and Merchant to produce this training video. It was on the Microsoft intranet for a couple of days and then… disappeared. A little while later I discovered The Office and have been dying [...]
28. Wordle 2 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Wordle 2 Originally uploaded by cameronreilly I love this. This graphic shows the top words I’ve used on Twitter over the last 18 months, composed by Worldle (http://www.wordle.net/compose).
29. Dan Froomkin - Pack of Liars - washingtonpost.com http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Trevor Cook pointed me to this excellent post about how Bush & co. lied their asses off about who knew what and who gave the order regarding the use of torture at Guantanamo. Here are the key points: The (just-released Senate) report notes that in early 2002… Bush signed a memo exempting war-on-terror detainees from the Geneva [...]
30. Where The Wild Things Are - The Movie http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Photo from the upcoming film apparently shot in Melbourne according to @Hellblazer. One of the all-time greatest kids books. I hope the film lives up to it.
31. YouTube - 2000-year-old computer recreated http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m still totally geeked out by the Antikythera Mechanism. This video shows how it worked using an amazing replica. I want.
32. Kevin Rudd Lives Up To (My) Expectations http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Well there you have it. Kevin Rudd is as much as scumbag as John Howard. It didn’t take long for his true colours to show. A year after he was elected on a campaign which had a strong focus on climate change action, he has totally ignored Ross Garnaut’s recommendations of 5 per cent per year [...]
33. Your Story : Internet Filter and No Clean Feed Rally http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: My mate Ian Kath (or, as my kids refer to him, “that guy who made the lightsabers for Star Wars”), was with us at the No Clean Feed protest in Brisbane on the weekend (my video from the even is coming soon) and he did some great interviews with attendees, including yours truly. Your Story [...]
34. Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Were the Mumbai attacks a false flag operation co-ordinated by the CIA? Perhaps, according to this post: informationliberation - Pakistani Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag False flags ops happen regularly and are a standard technique for creating violence and then blaming it on your enemies. Hitler used it in the burning of the Reichstag. [...]
35. CNN “Loses Feed” During Peter Schiff’s Rant About The Bailouts http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Deliberate censorship by CNN? A bad guest? Or just technical problems? You decide.
36. Where The Fuck Are The Tasers? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Victorian police have killed again, this time an obviously troubled 15 year old boy who came at them with knives at a skate park. I remember back in 2004 I had a debate, involving at least one cop, about why Melbourne police should be issued with tasers to avoid this kind of senseless death. [...]
37. PR Hacks Invade Twitter http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I was surprised - and a little disgusted - to get a message on Twitter this morning from @AmericasPower, trying to tell me than coal is much cleaner now that it was 30 years ago. I hadn’t added them to my Twitter feed, they must have just picked up on my comments yesterday about ‘clean [...]
38. read Think Big Magazine for free http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The folks at Think Big Magazine put their entire content up online for free, which is more than I can say for most business magazines in this country. Go here and you can subscribe for free. And then you can read the article about me that’s in their current edition.
39. Bloggers Unite! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: IW_strip12.png (image)
40. The 2008 Falsies Awards: In Memory of the First Casualty \| Center for Media and Democracy http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: CMD have released their 2008 Falsies list. As always, it’s interesting reading. Learn about: PR industry tricks such as ” third party technique” and how the Pentagon has been using it to dupe American citizens; Which PR firms are taking dirty coal money to try to dupe people into thinking ‘clean coal’ is anything more than a line [...]
41. if you could reason wth religious people http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: if you could reason wth religious people there would be no religious people - house : My[confined]Space
42. cameron-reilly by Lyynx. http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Stephen Price aka lyynx did this caricature of me!
43. Stephen Fry’s review of VIsta http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I have nine macs!!!!!! I don’t need another fucking mac. I just want ONE ARSING PC that isn’t complete SHIT Twitter / stephenfry Blogged with the Flock Browser
44. HTC Touch 3G review http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve been playing the new HTC Touch 3G for the last week. Here are my thoughts.
45. Australian News Media Takes More Hits http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From Crikey today: Fairfax CEO David Kirk was sacked by the Board yesterday. While I never thought Kirk was a good choice for the role, it’s hardly his fault that their share price is in the toilet. They’ve been running it into the ground for years. And they still aren’t coming to me for advice. Two [...]
46. watchmen timer http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I got this awesome little timer in the mail today from Paramount Pictures! It’s an electronic countdown to the launch of WATCHMEN on 050309! watchmen timer Originally uploaded by cameronreilly
47. Prop 8 - The Musical http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Wikipedia defines bigotry as: “A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own, and bigotry is the corresponding attitude or mindset.” Anyone who voted for Prop 8 in the recent Californian elections or who contributed money to the campaign for it - the Bill which introduced a [...]
48. Smiley face in the night sky? Proof that God exists? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Smiley face 7 Originally uploaded by cameronreilly I had no idea this was happening tonight, but when I looked up and saw this smiley face I was BLOWN AWAY. Apparently, we’re seeing Venus, Jupiter and a thin three-day-old crescent moon. What the photo doesn’t show, though, is how amazingly bright all three appear against the stars in [...]
49. The Internet Censorship General Strike http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Last night at BTUB I met Michael Meloni from Somebody Think Of The Children (along with lots of other great people) and we were talking (of course) about the Australian government’s absurd plan to filter the internet. I’ve been wondering over the last few months about what we, the Internet community, can do to alter [...]
50. The new Star Trek trailer http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m no Trekkie by any means but even I think this looks pretty cool. Star Trek (Trailer C) (Paramount Pictures Australia)Uploaded by Paramount_Australia
51. G’Day World turns FOUR http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Just realized that today is the 4th anniversary of G’Day World and therefore also the 4th anniversary of podcasting in Australia. A lot has changed in four years! And I’ve been fortunate enough to produce over 350 episodes and interview some amazing people. Thank you everyone for tuning in and for the continual support and [...]
52. G’Day World #355 - Wayne Denning on Aboriginal Affairs http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 50.07Mb) Description: Have you donated yet to the TPN Pledge Drive? Help support independent media! Today’s interview features Wayne Denning, Managing Director of Brisbane-based media company, Carbon Media. I caught up with Wayne to chat about the issues currently surrounding Aboriginal people in Australia and what I feel is a particularly insidious form of racism on the part of [...]
53. Windows Live Account - Reset Password http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Windows Live Account - Reset Password Originally uploaded by cameronreilly WTF? I rarely use my Windows Live account. Today I tried to login but couldn’t remember my user ID or my password. Tried a couple of things but they didn’t work. So I went into the “reset your password” option. They give you two options - answer [...]
54. G’Day World #354 - Nanette Burstein (Director of “American Teen”) http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 17.55Mb) Description: American Teen is a terrific documentary about 5 high school seniors in a small American town struggling with their last year of school and figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives. On today’s show I chat with the director of American Teen, Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein.
55. Getting Delisted By Google http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A few weeks ago, Google decided to drop TPN from its index. Why? They apparently think we’re lowly spammers. I need your help. First, a little history - As some of you may recall, back in March, on the day I was leaving Melbourne to relocate to Brisbane, I found out that TPN had been [...]
56. G’Day World #353 - Antony Loewenstein on Internet Censorship http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 39.67Mb) Description: Have you donated yet to the TPN Pledge Drive? Help support independent media! My guest today on G’Day World is once again Australian journalist and author Antony Loewenstein. Antony was on a couple of months ago to discuss his excellent book “The Blogging Revolution” and today he has come back on to discuss Kevin Rudd’s desire [...]
57. Please Support the TPN Pledge Drive http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 3.96Mb) Description: Dear TPN listeners, viewers and friends, You know that we spend a LOT of time producing our shows for you. And as we arenâ€™t making money out of advertising, weâ€™d like to ask for your support to help us keep TPN running. We have real costs in IT support, hardware, bandwidth, etc., as well as our time [...]
58. G’Day World Video Interview - T. A. McCann, Gist.com http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (video/x-m4v, 65.73Mb) Description: While I was in Seattle last month, my good mate Buzz Bruggeman (CEO of the best application for Windows EVER - Activewords… why the hell hasn’t Microsoft bought him out yet??), took me to meet another friend of his, T. A. McCann, CEO of Gist.com, a start-up (funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan) that integrates your [...]
59. More on Obama’s campaign financing http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Interesting articles I’ve been reading today on Obama’s refusal to disclose the names of his millions of small donors. The Slate article sums up my thoughts: Obama has campaigned (effectively) on a platform of making government more transparent, citing his efforts to do so in Chicago and Washington as signature achievements. And yet…. they are avoiding disclosing [...]
60. No Clean Feed http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description:
61. Raising Funding - The Atheist Bus and Obama http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Today is my 2nd last day in Seattle. I’ve had an awesome time. I’ll have to tell you about it sometime. There’s a few podcasts I’ve shot while I’m here that I’ll get out asap. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you a couple of thoughts about fund raising. Obviously the USA is [...]
62. G’Day World #352 - Sarah Mac’s Mercy Ministries Experience http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 54.62Mb) Description: Today’s show is the latest in my series examining the Christian charity Mercy Ministries and it’s relationship with the Gloria Jean’s Coffee chain and the evangelical Christian church Hillsong. My guest today is an Australian woman who is using the pseudonym “Sarah Mac” to protect her identity. She spent 8 months as a voluntary patient at [...]
63. G’Day World #351 - Dr David Skellern, CEO, NICTA http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 14.79Mb) Description: Dr David Skellern is the CEO of NICTA, Australiaâ€™s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. He’s also an engineer and entrepreneur, who sold a company he co-founded (Radiata) to Cisco in 2001. I caught up with him for 10 minutes a couple of weeks ago for a chat about why ICT R&D in [...]
64. Brisbane Confidential beta http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m working on a new project - a video podcast highlighting the best cafes, bars and other hidden gems of Brisbane. Here’s my beta podcast.
65. G’Day World #350 - Richard Moore http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 33.49Mb) Description: My guest on show #350 is American author (who now lives in Ireland) Richard J Moore, author of “Escaping The Matrix“. I was introduced to Richard’s work recently via an article he wrote about Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia. Richard tells me that the kind of government we have in the USA, UK and Australia [...]
66. October 10 is World Mental Health Day http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: World Mental Health Day (aka “Blue Day”) is being held on my birthday. Coincidence? I think not. My mate Efisia has written a great blog post about WMHD which includes the latest stats in Australia about depression and suicide as well as her own struggle with mental health issues. Many of us on Twitter have [...]
67. Obama’s Connections to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: On the day when Obama voted YES in the US Senate to the $700b scam, I did some further looking into his connections with Wall Street. Unsurprisingly, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were big contributors to the coffers of American legislators. The most interesting point from this graph though is that Barack Obama was the [...]
68. Monbiot: “the bailout is as American as apple pie and obesity” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: On the US bailout, George Monbiot writes: According to Senator Jim Bunning, the proposal to purchase $700bn of dodgy debt by the US government â€œis financial socialism, it is un-Americanâ€. The economics professor Nouriel Roubini calls George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke â€œa troika of Bolsheviks who turned the USA into the United Socialist State [...]
69. Three videos to watch about the Wall Street Bail Out http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Why isn’t Obama saying these things?
70. G’Day World #349 - Antony Loewenstein, The Blogging Revolution http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 52.85Mb) Description: Antony Loewenstein is an a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger whose latest book, The Blogging Revolution, is “a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe who live and write under repressive regimes - many of them risking their lives in doing so.” {Photo:Bryan Siebel} Sources of global dissident blogs: Global Voices Online Wordpress.com:tag:dissident If you want an [...]
71. The Rich Are Staging A Coup Today http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m with Michael Moore on this one.
72. G’Day World #348 - Everett True, “The Man Who Invented Grunge” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 47.89Mb) Description: Meeting Everett True isn’t what you’d expect. When I went to his house a few weeks ago, I expected to be confronted by Spider Jerusalem in the flesh. Instead I was greeted by someone looking like a middle-aged accountant. Quite the anti-climax. But the man is still the man. Who is Everett True, I hear [...]
73. Colbert KILLS Me http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Funniest line from a very insightful EW interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: STEPHEN COLBERT: One of the things I love about my character is I can make vast declarations and it doesn’t matter if I’m wrong. I love being wrong. So my character can tell you exactly what’s going to happen: The Democrats are [...]
74. G’Day World #347 - Microsoft TechEd 2008 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 31.40Mb) Description: Ahh…. Microsoft. I love ya. Where do they get so many folks who can’t cope once they lose their powerpoint cheat sheet? In the first of a series of interviews with Microsoft folks from the last couple of weeks, today I present a few interviews I did at their TechEd 2008 event in Sydney. In [...]
75. Impossibible http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In my ongoing attempts to coin at least ONE WORD which makes it into the dictionary, I tonight stumbled upon “impossibible” which I define as “any claim found in a religious book which is obviously impossible”. Here’s how you use it: “Jesus rising from the dead is obviously impossibible.”
76. Drunk History rocks! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Just when I was congratulating myself that my Napoleon podcast was the greatest thing to happen to teaching history since the Christians realized that if they killed their enemies and burned all their books then they had total control over “the truth”… Bron introduces me to DRUNK HISTORY. Totally brilliant. I’m sick with jealousy.
77. The Republicans Have Already Won? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: How do you stop a black candidate from winning the vote? Easy. Take black voters off of the voting registers in swing-states. Read more from investigative journalist Greg Palast.
78. video review of vodafone’s musicstation http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This is the follow up review to the interview I did a few days ago with Karen Paterson, Head of live! Services at Vodafone Australia and David Loiterton, Managing Director, Australia, Omnifone.
79. Best Birthday Gifts… so far… http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This being week three of “The Season Of Cam” - which, as you all know, runs from Sept 10 through my birthday on Oct 10 (a public holiday in many countries) through to Nov 10 - the presents are coming thick and fast from Camalista’s all over the world. Best gifts so far received: Magnetic Finger Puppets [...]
80. G’Day World #346 - MusicStation Launches in Australia http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 18.96Mb) Description: Today I’m chatting with Karen Paterson, Head of live! Services at Vodafone Australia and David Loiterton, Managing Director, Australia, Omnifone, about the new service just launched in Australia called MusicStation. Here’s the blurb from the press release: ==== START EVIL PRESS RELEASE ==== Vodafone Australia today launched MusicStation, Australiaâ€™s first unlimited mobile music download service, available exclusively to [...]
81. Bill Maher: Some Perspective http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: … found at Antony Lowenstein’s (author of “The Blogging Revolution” and “My Israel Question”) blog. I hope to have Antony on the show soon.
82. G’Day World #345 - Alex Epstein, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 30.30Mb) Description: I’ve been a big fan of Ayn Rand’s work since I first read “The Fountainhead” when I was about 20. I quickly read everything of hers I could get my hands on and I re-read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” every couple of years. I’ve wanted to do a show on her work for [...]
83. The Frankenstein Clarinet http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m at the MediaConnect Influence event again this year (they must have forgotten what happened last time I was here) and the opening keynote is by the CEO of NICTA. Dr John Judge from NICTA is also here showing off their robot-controlled clarinet which won first place in the ARTEMIS Orchestra competition in Athens a [...]
84. Shatner Is Right! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Great video below of William Shatner explaining how easy it would be to bring Capn Kirk back from the dead. And he’s spot on! The Enterprise teleporter would have Kirk’s entire molecular signature! All you need to do is re-materialize him! I ROFLd my ass off when I saw how easily Shatner out-did JJ Abrams. [...]
85. Tex Perkins’ infomercial http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: An infomercial for Tex Perkins and His Lazyboys album “No. 1’s & No. 2’s”. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time and it’s also the best viral marketing idea I’ve seen in ages. I think it’s going to go off. And the best thing about it is - this is exactly [...]
86. G’Day World #344 - Ben Witherington III on the Historicity of Jesus http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 129.69Mb) Description: My guest on #344 is Ben Witherington III, an evangelical Biblical scholar and lecturer on New Testament Studies, who is currently Professor on the New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. In our discussion, Prof. Witherington makes a case for the historicity of the New Testament and for the existence [...]
87. AIG bailed out while former CEO is $40 mill richer http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The news today that yet another American finance giant, AIG, has been bailed out by their “capitalist” government, led me to wonder how much their “leaders” made out of their destruction. Martin J. Sullivan, their former CEO (he was fired last June), took home nearly $40 million dollars in compensation in the last five years [...]
88. Best Analysis of Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae bailout I’ve read http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I just read this analysis by Michael Hudson, a former Wall Street economist. It’s worth reading. I love it when America, currently run by Republicans, the ones who keep demanding the rest of the world stop propping up their industries and embrace “free market economics” if they want to become part of the WTO, the [...]
89. More Melbourne Bars http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Cam & Kev (from TPN’s SOUSED podcast) hit a few more Melbourne cocktail bars a couple of weeks ago… it was RESEARCH goddamit!…. to chat with some of the owners and bartenders who have been nominated for the upcoming Melbourne Bar Awards.
90. Get A G’Day World Syndication Package http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (video/x-m4v, 10.46Mb) Description: I’m going to make my interviews available to businesses who want to re-distribute them from their site. Watch the video and click here for more info.
91. The Future Of Journalism http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I was on a panel yesterday at the Future Of Journalism conference in Brisbane. As you can perhaps tell from earleyedition’s tweets, my comments were not well received. As usual, I tried my best to explain that the economics of media have fundamentally changed and that means all bets are off. But, as usual, nobody [...]
92. Che Guevara Action Figure! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Oh yeah I want this! You can also get the Fidel action figure: If I had both of them I’d stage re-enactments of the Cuban revolution on my living room floor. I wonder if you can get Batista, JFK, Khrushchev and the Granma as well? Don’t forget it’s my birthday on Oct 10. With shipping times [...]
93. Newspaper ad sales fall record $3B in 6 mths http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m one of the speakers at the “Future Of Journalism” conference here in Brisbane tomorrow, which is kind of amusing as I’m the furthest thing you can get to a journalist. I’m a panelist on a session called “Who is going to pay for journalism?” and my answer is going to be “frakked if I [...]
94. SEVEN Years Post 9/11 - Did The Terrorists Win? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I was thinking about this over breakfast this morning… Why, in the last sixSEVEN years, hasn’t there been another terrorist attack on the USA? Perhaps it’s because the Dept of Home Security are doing a bang-up job keeping America safe. However, knowing what we do about how effective America’s intelligence services are (not very), that seems [...]
95. G’Day World #343 - Robert M Price “Did Jesus Exist?” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 91.30Mb) Description: My guest today is Robert M Price, a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary in Miami Gardens, Florida. He is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and the author of many books and articles on religion. Some of you may remember Robert from his appearance in the documentary â€œThe [...]
96. Bible Quote Of The Day http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” Ezekial 23:20 I kid you not. Thanks to Andrew Sayer to the link!
97. Ron Paul, Amy Goodman and Big Tobacco http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Just a few things that have caught my attention this morning: 1. Ron Paul refuses to endorse McCain and instead tells his supporters to vote for a third-party candidate. I love this quote from him: “It might diminish my credibility,” said Paul (when asked to endorse McCain). “I don’t like the idea of getting 2 or 3 [...]
98. G’Day World #342 - Dr Craig Johnson on Hitler http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 93.02Mb) Description: I had the very great pleasure of hanging out with Pastor Dr Craig Johnson in Paris back in July. We had a terrific time, including some very great laughs walking through the Louvre. Craig is an Evangelical Protestant clergyman. He is the founder and Pastor of Bethel Christian Fellowship in Agoura Hills, California.Â He isÂ [...]
99. Brand New Atheist http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Today I came across a relatively new blog called “Brand New Atheist” written by Rob Jones. In his first post, entitled “From believer to non-believer, how I got to here, 36 year-old Rob explains how he went from being a church-going Christian to an atheist over a period of about 10 months of personal introspection. [...]
100. G’Day World #341 - Georgia Groome, Actress http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 28.48Mb) Description: ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING is the new film by British director Gurinder Chadha (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BRIDE AND PREJUDICE). The star of the film is 16 year-old Georgia Groome. I chatted with Georgia today about life, acting and finishing her A levels. I also tried to get her to do a duet with me [...]
101. My Tourism Queensland podcasts http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve been recording some podcasts for Tourism Queensland, interviewing tour guides around the state about some of the unique Queensland experiences - eg diving off the Great Barrier Reef, catching a “River Train” through the Daintree rainforest, etc. Check out the first shows in iTunes.
102. PM Rudd Is A Creationist http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From the “Houston We Have A Problem” department… Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on radio today: “For me, it’s ultimately the order of the cosmos or what I describe as the creation. “You can’t simply have, in my own judgment, creation simply being a random event because it is so inherently ordered, and the fact that the [...]
103. MODM Melbourne #15 - Monday Sept 1 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: As I’m going to be in Melbourne on Monday night, I thought we should have a MODM! Details here.
104. Historical Evidence for Jesus http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve been at it again, calling “bullshit!” on Christians in Twitter. My main sparring partner has been this guy Corrie Bergeron aka “Skydaddy” from Ohio. A couple of days ago he made the big claim: “We have at least two eyewitness accounts, plus first-person accounts of other witnesses w/in living memory.” So I’ve spent the [...]
105. My TROPIC THUNDER review podcast http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Saw TROPIC THUNDER tonight! Brilliant. My review is up on THE MOVIE SHOW.
106. The Missing Link http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I spotted this on Cryptomundo and got a giggle out of it.
107. Christians and Mass Genocide http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I got into a bit of a debate on Twitter tonight about Christianity (just for a change). My comments here. When I pointed out the long list of genocides committed under Christianity, they asked me where in the New Testament Jesus had preached genocide. So I told them - Matthew 13:50. 13:49 So shall it [...]
108. Adolf Hitler Was A Christian http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In the comments on my post about the Australian pastor who conned thousands of Christians into believing he had cancer, Matt wrote: I would highly suggest for you, and any one else interested to read the book â€œThe Devilâ€™s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions.â€ by self-professed secular Jew and mathematics/philosophies teacher David Berlinski. This tells the [...]
109. The Biography Show #006 - Akhenaten vs Moses http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 77.63Mb) Description: I don’t know how many of you listen to my Biography podcast, but the episode we recorded today is, I think, pretty interesting, so i hope you don’t mind me throwing it into this feed. Today we tackle two subjects - Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten (aka Amenhotep IV) and Moses. Originally we were going to do [...]
110. Stupid Christians Get Conned… Again. http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: An Australian evangelical pastor, Michael Guglielmucci, has apparently confessed to lying about having terminal cancer for the last couple of years. The Australian Christian Churches told The Advertiser yesterday that it was auditing Mr Guglielmucci’s bank accounts, which included money donated from people touched by his hit song Healer. Mr Guglielmucci confessed his two-year fraudulent cancer battle [...]
111. G’Day World #340 - Hilary Mine, MD (Australasia and North Asia) Alcatel-Lucent http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 16.84Mb) Description: This morning I was given an opportunity to interview Hilary Mine, Alcatel-Lucent’s Managing Director Australasia and North Asia, about the launch of the Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Environment Challenge 2008 they did this morning in Melbourne with Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. The Challenge looks to award the Eckermann-TJA Prize ($10,000 [...]
112. News.com.au spread Bigfoot hoax http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Yep, gotta love that trustworthy media. I can see this one appearing on Media Watch next week. News.com.au is running a story today which claims “Bigfoot body ‘found and put in freezer’” written by “staff writers”. The story links to another site, Searching For Bigfoot, which actually declares the whole thing a hoax. News.com.au’s site [...]
113. A brief history of Russia & the West http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I recently read this post by Richard Moore on the history between Russia and the West and I thought I should share it with you. It provides some interesting perspective on what’s happening over in Georgia at the moment. According to Moore, Georgie is just the latest in a long line of pawns being moved [...]
114. How To Salvage Googlerank: WKP-Spier = Warren Kremer Paino reborn http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Remember that New York ad agency that sued a small time blogger when he picked up some mistakes in one of their campaigns for Boston? If you don’t, you can read my post on it at the time (April 06). What did the blogger, Dutson, do? He criticized Maine’s tourism office, which hired New York [...]
115. My Photo in Schmap Paris Guide! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: You know how I’m a big Napoleon geek, right? Well a photo I took of Napoleon’s tomb in Paris back in 2004 has been selected for the Schmap Paris Guide! Check the link below.
116. Everton Park needs new cleaners http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Everton Park needs new cleaners Originally uploaded by cameronreilly This was taken on the intersection of South Pine Road and Stafford Road in Everton Park today. It’s disgusting.
117. MODM BBQ in Brisneyland http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m going to throw a one-off MODM BBQ up here in Brisneyland on Saturday August 30th. Details here. BYO food, drink and gadgets. Apparently there’s a BTUB on the previous night, so this can be where everyone turns up and has a burger to get over their hangover.
118. SHOCK REPORT: America Respects International Law http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In the comments section to my post on the Pentagon’s propaganda, Marcelo pointed me to this post in ConsortiumNews.com about how Bush and the American media are screaming about Russia’s invasion of Georgia is pretty interesting. Apparently, context is everything. So, the United States attacking Grenada or Nicaragua or Panama or Iraq or Serbia [...]
119. The Pentagon’s Propaganda Game Busted http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From the Center for Media and Democracy: Today, we struck a blow against propaganda, and for transparency and accountability. In early 2002, the Pentagon began cultivating retired military officers who frequently serve as media commentators to help make the case for invading Iraq. The pundit program continued — promoting the Bush administration’s stance on the Guantanamo Bay [...]
120. How The IOC Gags Athletes At The O-LAME-pics… and more. http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A few weeks ago I had director Matt Norman on the show. We talked about political protests at the Olympics (with reference to his Uncle Peter Norman’s protest at the 1968 Olympics). There was some debate afterward in the comments section about whether or not the Australian Government has gagged our athletes. It turns out [...]
121. Bill Maher’s “Religulous” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I heard Bill Maher say he was going to make this on Larry King a while back and Russell Buckley just sent me the trailer. It looks great! I want to make shit like this! I read Maher’s book “New Rules” a few years ago and I loved it! He’s brilliant.
122. Free Delivery!? 1999 is back baby! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Over on Brisbane Norg tonight I read a post by Durx on a UK online bookstore called The Book Depository. He sez: …a few weeks ago I came across a British website selling books, cheap and with free “world wide delivery”. I had to give them a try. So I found my way to [...]
123. G’Day World #339 - Donnie Maclurcan and Project Australia http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 42.47Mb) Description: Today my guests is Donnie Maclurcan, Executive Director of Project Australia, a national organisation helping people launch ideas that seek to create positive social change within communities. Donnie tells me how the idea came together, how it all works, and what they are trying to do. He’s a terrific example of someone who has taken the [...]
124. The Lies About Hiroshima http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: John Pilger has written a terrific article to commemorate the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (6 August, 1945). I was talking about Hiroshima with American friends while in France. They gave me the usual answer “it was horrible but it stopped the war and saved lives”. These friends [...]
125. Australian Censorship and Human Rights http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I did a show yesterday on China’s censorship and human rights record. A few people have told me that in Australia, we can say what we like and do what we like. Really? Why is KRUDD spending $60 million on Internet censorship? Why did a Gold Coast teenager get arrested and charged for wearing a â€œblasphemousâ€ [...]
126. G’Day World #338 - Amnesty Intl on China and Social Media http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 31.73Mb) Description: On today’s show I’m joing by Sophie Peer, China Campaign Co-ordinator for Amnesty International, Fi Bendall from the Bendall Group, and Ben Barren, social media baron, to discuss the online campaign Amnesty have run over the last 3 weeks to raise awareness of China’s human rights record. The campaign asked Australian bloggers to unite and [...]
127. Science. It Works, Bitches. http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests. This is one of the most beautiful man-made objects I’ve ever seen. Bow down before the engineers who built this, people. (title of the post obviously [...]
128. The Power Of The Pussy Podcast http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m excited today to launch the latest podcast to join the TPN family: I had Katherine Cunningham as a guest on G’Day World back in Oct 2007 and afterwards offered her her own show on TPN. It’s taken a while (all my fault!) to get it up and running but I’m very excited about it. Katherine sez: The [...]
129. Edinburgh Fringe Time Again! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Once again this year, for the 4th year in a row, my old mate Ewan Spence is podcasting daily from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for TPN, talking to comedians, musicians, the audience, event managers, and anyone else who isn’t frightened off by Ewan’s pet crow, Crow. Don’t miss it - these shows are always terrific!
130. G’Day World #337 - Allon Klebanoff’s introduction to J. S. Bach http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 86.54Mb) Description: One of the wonderful people I met while in Ajaccio was Allon Klebanoff, an Israeli historian who is the closest thing to a “Renaissance Man” that I’ve ever met. Allon gave a terrific presentation on naval art during Napoleonic times at the Congress and, over much alcohol and good food during five days, we discussed [...]
131. Stan The Man Talks Podcasting http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: TPN’s Stan Relihan (The Connections Show) was interviewed by IT Wire recently about his thoughts on the future of podcasting. According to Relihan, putting the iPhone in the hands of senior executives will be an explosive mixture that has never happened before and will take the adoption of podcasting to a new level. “Now that the iPhone [...]
132. G’Day World #336 - The Sammartino Method (aka How To Get Rich Slowly and Surely) http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 43.45Mb) Description: Steve Sammartino is not only the founder of Rentoid.com (see G’Day World #306), he’s also one of the smartest money managers that I’ve ever met. By age 33, Steve had built up a big enough share portfolio to be able to quit his corporate marketing job and live completely on the dividends. That was two years [...]
133. Our First Beeswax Candles http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The boys and I made our first beeswax candles today, in product trials for our new business, The Kids Candle Company. Check out the video!
134. G’Day World #335 - Mercy Ministries Survivor “Vickie” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 42.85Mb) Description: Today’s show is a continuation of the examination I’ve been doing around the relationship and practices of Gloria Jean’s Coffee, Hillsong Church and Mercy Ministries. Today’s guest is a former resident of Mercy Ministries in the United States. She spent 7 months inside Mercy about 8 years ago and is still today too frightened of [...]
135. G’Day World #334 - Leo Sayer http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 56.68Mb) Description: In 1980, at age ten, I bought my very first LP record - “Living In A Fantasy” by Leo Sayer. I listened to it constantly - 20 years later I bought it on CD and today it’s always on my iPod. Leo has had several Number One hits around the world, “You Make Me Feel [...]
136. Hey… I’m still here http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Yeah I know I’ve been quiet for a few weeks. I expected to have more time / bandwidth in France than I ended up getting. And I’m currently editing a podcast that I recorded in Ajaccio with an Israeli historian Allon Klebanoff about J. S. Bach which will be up soon. Meanwhile, I’m crazy busy [...]
137. My Legion of Merit Award http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: So while I was in France I was presented with the quite-prestigious “Legion Of Merit” award by the La SociÃ©tÃ© NapolÃ©onienne (aka the International Napoleonic Society) for my “contribution to the promotion of Napoleonic history” via the Napoleon podcast I produce on TPN. As you can see, I’m the 97th person to receive the award. [...]
138. Bonjour from Ajaccio! http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Today is day three in Ajaccio and I’m having an awesome time. This is my 2nd trip to Ajaccio (the first time was in 2004, just after I left Microsoft and before TPN) and I absolutely am in love with the place. Think Cuba but with modern cars and without the economic sanctions, and you’re [...]
139. G’Day World #333 - Matt Norman, Director/Producer “Salute” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 39.31Mb) Description: Subscribe now to the weekly update email (fill in the below box) to get a weekly list of all of the new episodes on TPN in one easy-to-read format! Enter your email address: ====================================================== My guest today is Matt Norman. Matt is an Aussie actor/director/producer who has a new documentary coming out called “Salute The Movie” (watch [...]
140. France, Day One http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I nearly missed my connecting flight from Changi but, apart from that, the 28 hour trip (door to door) here went smoothly. It took me an hour to get through customers, an hour to get to the Latin Quarter where my hotel is… and then another 90 minutes while I walked around LOST because the [...]
141. I’m off to France today http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I fly out today to attend the International Napoleonic Society’s conference in Ajaccio, Corsica. I’m spending a week there and a week in Paris. My co-host of the Napoleon podcast, J. David Markham, and I will be shooting video podcasts from Les Invalides (where he’s buried), La Malmaison (where he lived with Josephine), Arc de [...]
142. G’Day World #332 - Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 34.10Mb) Description: Subscribe now to the weekly update email (fill in the below box) to get a weekly list of all of the new episodes on TPN in one easy-to-read format! Enter your email address: ====================================================== My guest today is Peter Singer. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the [...]
143. Barack Obama - Another Corporate Puppet? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve expressed my doubts about the Cult of Obama here a few times. I spotted this video in a Twitter comment today who said it was “racist”. What?? I don’t see how it can be called racist. I think it points out the obvious - that in order to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for [...]
144. Kids Candle Company http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m very excited about this - my kids are starting their first business - KIDS CANDLE COMPANY. Follow their progress on their new blog.
145. G’Day World #331 - Ex-Gloria Jean’s Franchisees Speak Out http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 34.85Mb) Description: My guests tonight are a couple from Melbourne who we’ll call “Bazza” and “Shazza”. For the last five years they were franchisees with Gloria Jean’s Coffee. They’ve come on to discuss their experience. As regular readers will know, I’ve been taking an interest in Gloria Jean’s over the last few years (read earlier posts here), [...]
146. G’Day World #330 - Kat & Matt from OpenAustralia.org http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 34.69Mb) Description: Tonight’s guests - Katherine Szuminska & Matthew Landauer - are the founders of OpenAustralia.org, a recently-launched site which makes politics more transparent. Based on the British site TheyWorkForYou, OpenAustralia.org scrapes Hansard and makes it much more accessible. You can find out who your local MP is and then subscribe to email alerts whenever they say [...]
147. “Great Apes” to get full rights in Spain? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: An interesting story… apparently “great apes” - that is, all non-human members of the biological family Hominidae which includes chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans - are soon to get full human rights in Spain. They won’t be able to be kept captive, used in experiments for in television commercials. This outcome is the work of [...]
148. Gates, End of Act One http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Now that Bill Gates has left his day-to-day role at Microsoft, I feel compelled to write something. Last week ABC TV’s Lateline program contacted me asking if I would be prepared to “balance out” the positive coverage of Gates for their show. I informed them that they were asking the wrong bloke - I’m a [...]
149. Iraq - Chickens Coming Home To Roost http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: America - your tax dollars have been well spent. What can you buy with one trillion dollars? No-bid contracts: Nearly Four Decades Later, U.S. Oil Companies Return to Iraq Four oil companies are in the final stage of contract negotiations to regain drilling rights in Iraq — thirty-six years after they lost them. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total [...]
150. In Honour Of George Carlin http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Most of the coverage you’ll see about the passing of Carlin this week - that is, assuming you see any at all, I don’t think I’ve seen a single mention on Australian TV - will cover his infamous “Seven Words” sketch and how it helped to break down free speech barriers. Tell that to the [...]
151. G’Day World #329 - Rob McNealy, StartUpStoryRadio.com http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 72.28Mb) Description: On the show today, something a little different - I’m interviewed by Rob McNealy from StartUpStoryRadio.com. Before I throw to the interview, I talk about some recent blog posts, including the OpenAustralia and Registry of Members’ Interests issue, the Gloria Jean’s story and the future of the newspaper industry. Don’t miss out on winning the [...]
152. How fast can you type? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: 73 words Speed test It’s amazing to me that I’ve never had a single typing lesson in my life and yet I can touch type. The brain is amazing.
153. Former Gloria Jeans Franchisee Speaks Out http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In the comments section to one of my earlier posts exposing Gloria Jeans, a guy claiming to be an ex-franchisee sez: As an ex-franchisee (yes, if you will pardon the pun I “saw the light” and got out) it disturbed me that we were given Targets for our “voluntary contributions”. In fact, we were required [...]
154. Newspapers facing worst year on record http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Tony Harris sent me a link to this story in the New York Times which says that this year is shaping up to be the worst on record for newspaper advertising revenue. I’ve been predicting a steady decline in advertising revenue for years (The Future Of Newspapers, State of the News Print Media in Australia [...]
155. Transparency in Australian politics http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m very excited to see that OpenAustralia, the local version of TheyWorkForYou is online and in beta testing. Congrats to everyone involved. It’s something I’ve been wanting to see happen in Australia for years. Reading through the site and its’ associated blog tonight, I discovered a couple of interesting points about transparency in Australian politics, [...]
156. G’Day World #328 - Stephen Mayne http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 38.31Mb) Description: Today I got to chat with another person I admire - Stephen Mayne. As I’m sure most of you will know, Stephen is the founder of Crikey.com.au. These days he is also running a video podcast “The Mayne Report” where he takes his video crew into Annual General Meetings for some of Australia’s largest companies [...]
157. Che Guevara’s 80th birthday http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: In honour of the great Che Guevara’s 80th birthday (officially the 14th June), here’s a documentary on his life for those of you who have only heard the CIA propaganda and lies.
158. Coming to Paris in July http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m going to be in Paris July 5 and July 13, 14, 15. Anyone interested in catching up?
159. G’Day World #327 - Puny Humans Must Die http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (audio/mpeg, 47.63Mb) Description: Today I talk about what I’ve learned recently from the following books: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2003) The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers by Paul Kennedy (1988) Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky (2002) I also talk about an alternative to Hiroshima the Roadrunner supercomputer why a high IQ is linked to atheism my ideas for an Australian version of TED the [...]
160. Study: High IQ linked to atheism http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A new study from the UK claims that people with a high IQ are more likely to be atheists. Now I know you expect me to be gloating about this study but really, it’s not that interesting. From my perspective, it’s just common sense that people who have even an average level of intelligent wouldn’t [...]
161. Microsoft’s Decade of Shareprice Hell http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The guy who wrote the MSFT Extreme Makeover blog has hung up his riding boots with a terrific summary post on Microsoft’s woes. After MSFT’s share price being in the toilet for the better part of a decade, Extreme has had enough. I sold my last remaining MSFT shares just before the YHOO announcement sent [...]
162. Australia 2050 - The Wiki http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m trying to work out who the top thinkers and visionaries are in Australia who can help us plot a course for 2050. I’ve put together a quick wiki to collate your ideas in a central place. Go to the 2050 wiki.
163. A clarion call for digital media entrepreneurs http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Paul Ryan asked me to write a story for the June/July issue of Anthill about digital media and entrepreneurship. I ended up writing something about how it seems to me that digital media entrepreneurs require a higher code of ethics, a higher vision, than your run-of-the-mill online entrepreneurs. Click on the image below to read [...]
164. Who Are Australia’s Top Thinkers? http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m working on an idea and I need your help. I want to put together a list of the top thinkers in Australia. I mean the really amazing people, the ones with a huge vision for the country or the world or even their industry. The people who are leading from the front, dreaming big [...]
165. New Singularity Essays http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: IEEE Spectrum has a series of new essays on the singularity from the likes of Vernor Vinge and Rodney Brooks (who have both been on this show in the last year). My favourite quote so far comes from Vinge’s new essay “Signs of the Singularity“: “The best answer to the question, â€œWill computers ever be as [...]
166. Four More Years Before Machines Surpass Humans http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Hans Moravec has suggested that the human brain has a processing capacity of 10 quadrillion instructions per second (10 billion MIPS). In comparison, it was announced today that the fastest supercomputer in the world, called Roadrunner and devised and built by engineers and scientists at I.B.M. and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is capable of handling [...]
167. Teaching your kids to save money http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Andre writes the “Lost Parent Diary” blog and he recently contacted me about a podcast I did where I mentioned how my twin boys started saving their pocket money to buy their own laptops when they were about five years old. He wrote it up into a blog post about teaching your kids to save [...]
168. Microsoft’s Ballmer on the Future of Media http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Okay so - Steve’s crystal ball hasn’t been 100% accurate over the years - neither has BillG’s - but he’s also helped build Microsoft into the giant it is today, despite decades of predicitions of it’s imminent demise, so he must know something. And this is what he said recently about the future of media: In [...]
169. Science Needs A Celebrity Makeover http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It in the last few days I’ve had two startling, and somewhat depressing, conversations. In both instances, I had a debate with people I admire, for their intelligence and intellectual rigour, about the merit of the scientific method. In both cases, my opponents made claims which felt unscientific to me. When I challenged their thinking on [...]
170. America - “The Land Of The Jailed” http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: So much for being “The Land Of The Free”: Human Rights Watch has just posted up the latest stats which show the USA incarcerates nearly 7 times the number of it’s citizens are other democracies such as the UK and Canada. Statistics released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a branch of the US Department [...]
171. G’Day World Video - Peter Ellyard discusses “Designing 2050″ http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (video/x-m4v, 0.00Mb) Description: I had the pleasure once again today to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist, one of our most popular public speakers and, of course, author of the historic first book published by TPNTXT: “Designing 2050: Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth”. The auction for two signed proof copies of the book can be [...]
172. Exxon says one thing, does the opposite http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From the “Just-Cuz-We-Say-We’re-Going-To-Do-Something-Doe sn’t-Mean-We-Will” department: The Center for Science in the Public Interest points out that ExxonMobil has just announced “for the second consecutive year” that it is cutting funding to groups which promote skepticism about global warming. The groups that are supposedly being cut off include the Capital Research Center, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Frontiers [...]
173. Re-inventing Politics - The Cameron System http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: On Twitter this afternoon I made a crack about how the two-party system we have in Australia is, I believe, fundamentally broken. Someone asked me how I would improve it. This is what I came up with on the fly. This isn’t something I’ve given any thought to previously, so it’s probably full of holes [...]
174. GMAIL - Filtering many messages at once http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Here’s something I learned this morning - how to quickly set up a Gmail filter to delete multiple annoying messages. This may not be news to most of you but as it was a new discovery for me, I thought I’d share it. Find Annoying Messages - you know those ones that you find yourself deleting [...]
175. Aussie Startups in Aust Financial Review http://gdayworld.thepodcastnet... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Renai LeMay did a story on Aussie start-ups in today’s AFR. But, of course, I can’t link to it online, because the zombies running the Fin still have it locked up tighter that a fish’s asshole. Memo to Fairfax -