Don’t Panic
Posted on 29. Sep, 2005 by Mick Stanic in General
Hi TPN listeners and fans,
Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, The Podcast Network web site will be undergoing some major server work that will increase (fingers crossed) both the speed and the reliability of the service you have come to love and cherish 
Access to the web site and the functionality of the RSS feed will at best experience a small blip of down time… and at worst…well..it could vanish into the bermuda triangle that is tech land for upto four days. I have also had to switch of the ability to post comments on all the sites till we are fully operational as well.
Stick with us through this little hick-up and I promise we will return to normal transmission as quick as possible.
Thanks guys and gals…
Mick Stanic
Co-Founder of The Podcast Network
G’Day World “On The Pod” #50 – John Buckman
Posted on 26. Sep, 2005 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
Wow, the 50th G’DAY WORLD interview. How time flies.
And I couldn’t be happier with the subject of our 50th show – John Buckman, Founder and CEO of Magnatune, the hippest record label on the planet.
Magnatune is the record label with the motto “We Are Not Evil”.
The backstory is something like this: John was the CEO of a software company when his wife was signed as an artist to a indy record label and, from that dismal experience, they decided that they could do a better job and Magnatune was born in April 2003. Magnatune currently has 202 artists selling 418 albums. Listen to the show to check out their very cool business model.
Oh, by the way, John wants to write a book titled “How to Overthrow the Music Industry”.
You just know I’m going to like this bloke, right?
The track at the end of the show is called “Wreck of the Zephyr” and is by one of Magnatune’s artists, Houston-based DROP TRIO. Very funky sheeeit.
Oh, and by the way, this show was recorded using Skylook, the awesome cool plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, based in Melbourne Australia.
G’Day World “On The Pod” #49 – Prof Kevin Hindle
Posted on 22. Sep, 2005 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
On #49 I’m joined by Professor Kevin Hindle. Kevin and I met about five years ago when he asked me to present to his Masters class about innovation happening in the e-business space and on my predictions for where the big opportunities lay in the early part of the 21st century. For the record, I didn’t mention podcasting.
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Kevin Hindle is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne , Australia . He is a researcher, educator, management consultant and private equity investor. His variety of expertise and interests embrace many aspects of managing in conditions of uncertainty. His research, teaching, managerial and consulting work focuses on entrepreneurial business planning but includes: investment evaluation (especially in the field of venture capital), market and financial modelling, change management, organisational design, corporate strategy and management training. Applying leading-edge research to practical problems, he has initiated and developed new ventures and worked for organisations large and small, public and private, Australian and international. He is Australian Project Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the world’s largest entrepreneurship research initiative.
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We talk about entrepreneuship in Australia and what it means to be an entrepreneur, subjects Kevin knows a great deal about.
G’Day World “On The Pod” #48 – Sir Harry Kroto
Posted on 19. Sep, 2005 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
Something a bit different today. No Mick (but you’re used to that by now) and no Cam. Well very little Cam, anyway. I hear you sigh in relief.
My mate Sir Mike Seyfang aka The Fang in Adelaide recently had the chance to record a talk given by Sir Harry Kroto to a bunch of schoolkids in Adders and he has made it available to us with Sir Harry’s permission.
So… I hear you asking, who is Sir Harry Kroto when he’s at home?
Well… why write something when I can link to his full auto-biography on the NOBEL PRIZE website?
That’s right – Sir Harry was one of three guys who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE aka Carbon60. C60 is important in the field of nanotechnology, heat resistance and superconductivity, among other applications.
Here’s his personal website for more info.
Let me apologize in advance for Mike’s poor audio quality in the small intro we recorded but he was in the dunny at the time. 
Sir Harry kicks in about 8 minutes in.
Thank you Sir Mike and Sir Harry!