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Re: Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:33:49 -0000

Actually, "cunt" is a term of affection in Australia, particularly if used as in "Howyadoingyaoldcunt?" as pointed out in this podcast from 2005 (http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2005/02/...).

Re: The New Media elite? Hardley.

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:44:42 -0000

"Even" me? Sheesh Thom. Fair smack of the sausage mate. I started the world's first podcasting business. Gotta be worth more than an honorable mention! :-)

Re: Giving props to my Peeps

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:57:06 -0000

aww shucks Thom. being included in a post with Metallica is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. :-) I loved that doco, totally hilarious.

Re: simondodson.com - bigger - better - stronger - 2K9

Cameron Reilly — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:23:45 -0000

No mate, Low Down Dirty is the first track (after the skit) on his 97 SLIM SHADY EP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slim_Shady_EP

Re: Who Needs The New Batman Movie?

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:47:03 -0000

I love the Ms Pacman at the end! So bad its actually funny.

Re: Australia’s biggest telco joins Twitter: Hi Telstra Bot

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:01:59 -0000

Ummm they haven't engaged me as an "adviser", just to produce some podcasts for telstraenterprise.com.

Re: The Podcast Network suffers major outage

Cameron Reilly — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:31:36 -0000

I dont think things are that disastrous. We'll be back up with most of our content in a matter of days to a week, if everything goes well. The joys of trying to bootstrap a business.

Re: First Pics Of The Other Woman Behind Shania Twain and Mutt Lange Split

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:18:50 -0000

Eeeek! Maybe Shania is dead in the bedroom dept?

Re: sharon-stone-upskirt-9

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:20:51 -0000

You have to love a woman who goes out commando.

Re: E71 Tip: Hold Down Home/Menu Key To View Open Applications & Multitask

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:26:59 -0000

Thanks for that tip! Works on my Nokia 6210 as well.

Re: Simon Goudie » Maintenance Mode

Cameron Reilly — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:51:59 -0000

Yeah I love mine too mate. Beautiful. Mine is #032.

Re: How to Use Twitter to Get Things Done

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:58:11 -0000

Yeah "putting yourself out there" is a good plan. Another one is a system I kind of invented on the Productivity podcast a year ago. We call it the Productivity Buddy system. Every Monday morning at 10am my productivity buddy and I have a scheduled phone call about how our weekly GTD review is going. And during the week, if I feel stuck, I can call him and spend ten minutes on the phone with him talking me down off the roof. If it works for AA, it can work for productivity too I figured.
http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/...

Re: Dr. Stewart Friedman on “Time Bind” vs. Psychological Interference and More

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:36:41 -0000

Yeah it always seemed to me, even before I quit my corporate job to start my own thing, that the whole "work/life balance" concept was a bit wonky. Even when I was doing the corporate drain rat thing, my work *was* my life, at least for 80 waking hours a week. I quit, started a media company, and for the last four years have worked from home, loving every minute of it. Your book has made it even more fun, so thanks Tim. I've outsourced about 10 hours a week to my VA and it's exciting. I can now use that time to focus on bigger opportunities for the business rather than doing "busy" work.

Re: Napoleon on News and Information Management (Plus: Video on Outsourcing E-mail and More)

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:31:50 -0000

One of my fav Napoleon quotes is "Glory may be fleeting but obscurity is forever." I have that on a t-shirt. People wanting to learn more about Napoleon should check out my podcast "Napoleon 101".

Re: Declaring Your Indepdendence

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:38:42 -0000

I hate to break it to you Chris, but it's my understanding that American "Independence" was mostly about the British East India Company deciding to buy itself a country to escape the pressures of regulation in England. It's a little understood fact that for the first 12 months of US "independence", your flag was actually the BEIC flag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United...

Re: Declaring Your Indepdendence

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:40:08 -0000

So it's actually a celebration of the day a corporation bought itself a country.

Re: Declaring Your Indepdendence

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:19:11 -0000

@Chris Cree
While I'm not going to claim the BEIC story is official history, it has always struck me as interesting that a new nation would adopt the flag of the company they were supposedly protesting against. When else in history has a country adopted the flag/logo/brand of a corporation? Why would a new country, founded in revolution, adopt the flag of the instrument of their recent oppression?
Again, I'm not taking potshots at American history, just asking what I think are interesting questions.

Re: Declaring Your Indepdendence

Cameron Reilly — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:04:27 -0000

Jon & Chris, there isn't any speculation involved. The US flag was almost IDENTICAL to the BEIC flag. This can't be taken lightly. Especially in those days of yore, a flag was a symbol - of who you were as a people and what you stood for. And the Founding Fathers of the United States selected, as their first flag, the flag of the British East India Company, an extremely corrupt and malignant organisation. It begs the question - why? One minute they are dumping BEIC's tea into the water, the next they are taking their flag as their own? You can't easily dismiss it.

Re: Bacn- A New Internet Term

Cameron Reilly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:41:33 -0000

Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.

Re: Why I Am Not a Podcaster

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:01:32 -0000

Why do we call a carpenter a carpenter then? Because he... carpents?

Anyway... my 2 cents:
http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/...

Re: The Effects Of Digg on My Blog

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:39:36 -0000

Chris, I wrote almost the exact same post a year ago:

http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/11/...

Since then I haven't really bothered much with Digg. You can't build a business model on 15 minutes of fame.

cheers
CR

Re: Windows Media 11’s lack of podcasting gets noticed

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 24 May 2006 20:15:23 -0000

yeah Robert I'm confused by this lack of podcasting as well. I met with Sean Alexander, Keith Ballinger and some of the guys from the WMP team back in Feb 2005 before I hooked up with you and Buzz at Demo. That was a full 4 months before iTunes had podcast support. I was pretty convinced then that WMP would have podcasting support before long. 15 months later - nada. Quite disappointing. I agree with Todd - this is going to slow down podcast adoption. Having it in iTunes is great, but 50 million iPod owners is nothing compared to Microsoft's reach.

Re: Correcting the Record about Microsoft

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:43:59 -0000

From one professional podcaster to a-soon-to-be-nother, congrats buddy. The professional podcasting industry welcomes you to the fold. If I'd known you were coming I'd have baked a cake. It's about time we had someone who could match Curry in the press stakes! :-)

I'm not surprised you only lastest three years at MSFT though. There was a time when you had to pry people's cold dead hands away from their blue badge.

At least I've got a "first" on you finally. I believe you are the second Micrsoft blogger to quit the mothership to join the podcasting business. :-)

Re: Thomas zoooms to a new career

Cameron Reilly — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:14:19 -0000

I did a podcast with Thomas today talking about his new role. Check it out.

Re: Production values debate breaks out during videologger session

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:17:39 -0000

I'm with you 100% on this buddy. And the example I've often used is to point to hollywood. Nine times out of ten I'd rather watch a film with a great story but basic production values over... the latest Michael Bay film (whatever that happens to be). And let's face it - the reason podcasting has exploded isn't because we were all sitting home thinking "gee the production values on mainstream media plain suck". It was a lack of interesting content. Now, since I started G'Day World a couple of years ago I've upgraded my mic from the $20 headset to something that cost me slightly more... and I bought some additional equipment as well. But mainly because it saves me significant post-production time (GIGO). Someone told me recently how Rocketboom's success has to do with the fact they shoot it (apparently) on HD. I told him I couldn't tell the difference on my iPod.

Re: Peter says podcasting is inefficient

Cameron Reilly — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:03:59 -0000

we used to hear this kind of argument a lot more 12 - 18 months ago but I haven’t heard it for ages. I had assumed most people now realized that comparing podcasts to blogs was like comparing radio to a newspaper. They are different mediums servicing different needs. And yet you never hear people arguing that radio is inefficient and we should all just read newspapers. Maybe there were people making that argument back in 1920, when Westinghouse’s KDKA-Pittsburgh broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns and began their daily schedule of radio programs?

Re: Why I love Automattic

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:59:01 -0000

no doubt about it, I notice when Akismet is down too! We get KILLED with spam. Automattic rock. Toni is a guy? I thought he/she was a girl.

Re: Nice to see Steve Lacey again, he’s at Google now

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:40:44 -0000

Scoble: Remember how MSN Beat ICQ? ICQ had more features. But MSN had a simpler, cleaner, interface.

Damn and here I was thinking MSN beat ICQ because they bundled the product into 400 million copies of Windows and integrated it into Hotmail.

I like Google Talk and would use it more if more people I knew used it. It's a good example of Metsalfe's Law in action.

I ROLFd when I read your comment about Lacey not telling you what he's doing. I was in an email discussion with him recently and I asked him if Google was coming out with a free Flight Sim (which for those who don't know was Steve's main product at Microsoft for a gazillion years). He didn't reply and I thought he was just behind on email until I read your post.

cheers
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Re: The brand promise of Apple

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:21:41 -0000

Hey Robert, like you I'm another ex-MSFT employee who recently moved to the Mac. I bought my first Macbook Pro about a month ago. And while I love the hardware design, and certainly don't hate OSX, I did a podcast recently saying how, after a few weeks of using it, I didn't see what the big fuss was about. I don't think OSX is that much different to Vista. Both have features the other doesn't. Both have their own problems. The funny thing I've found is that since buying my Mac, all of the Mac fanboys who have been ragging on me for years are now saying "oh yeah, lots of problems. This sucks (eg Finder), that sucks (dragging apps to Trash doesn't really delete the app), but give it SIX MONTHS, and you'll love it."

Again - I *LOVE* the hardware. Sweet as. But my feeling is that Microsoft have pretty much caught up on the OS front. Of course, on the MBP I can run both Vista and OSX, which perhaps gives it a slight advantage over my Lenovo desktop. Now I have the best of both worlds. Sweet hardware and two operating systems.

Re: Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)

Cameron Reilly — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:06:58 -0000

I'm so disappointed by this. I've been waiting for a decent e-book reader for ten years and I thought Bezos would be the guy to deliver it. I was planning on buying a few of these, for myself, my family and friends. No sale now.

Re: Jump In #25: NineMSN CEO Tony Faure

Cameron Reilly — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:15:07 -0000

shouldn't you call Tony ninemsn's EX-CEO, seeing as he was booted about 2 weeks ago?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/03/12122...

Re: How Twitter Was Born

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:47:16 -0000

Great history Dom, thx for taking the time to share it.

Re: Nice Numbers From The Podcast Network

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:36:37 -0000

Thanks Paul. Love your site.

Re: New Media Predictions For 2008

Cameron Reilly — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:57:59 -0000

Paul, people have been predicting our demise since day one. If you keep it up every year, eventually, someone may get it right. I don't think the model of a group of podcasters getting together to share traffic, techniques, contacts and experience is flawed at all. I suspect a few networks took a whole bunch of money which they are struggling to show a return on, but that, my friend, is a whole other story. Bad business decisions does not always equal a bad business model.

Re: New Media Predictions For 2008

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:56:16 -0000

Well I was going to suggest we make it interesting and put a year of your salary against a year of mine on the bet that we'll be around a year from now, but you've just taken the steam out of that fight. :-)

Re: Twitter dynamics: unfollowing guykawasaki, Scobleizer and cameronreilly

Cameron Reilly — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:22:54 -0000

yeah I agree with you on this, that would be a good feature. But then again, I guess unfollowing someone (like me) who twits too much for your tastes is probably the cleanest solution. In my defense though, I usually only turn twitter on once or twice a day, and usually have a bunch of people to reply to in one hit. The other 23 hours of the day you won't hear much from me at all. :-)

Re: You’re fat, stop that… somehow?

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:27:52 -0000

I smell a great business opportunity here Nat. I'd love to help. We should talk. DM or email me if you're interested.

Re: Amazon.com's Kindle Book Reader: The Details And The Devil

Cameron Reilly — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:16:50 -0000

Randall, ever tried to get 30 hours charge out of a PDA? Not bloody likely. I've been a big user of e-books for ten years, Microsoft Reader mostly, and the experience has a long way to go. A specific device which can sustain a decent charge (long enough for a trans-Pacific flight) for a few hundred bucks sounds pretty good to me.