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Digital Photography Show launches on TPN

I’m an amatuer photographer - aren’t we all these days?! Which is why you all need to listen to our newest show - The Digital Photography Show. Your hosts Scott Sherman and Michael Stein bring you the latest news on digital cameras, tips and tricks to improve your image-making, and interviews with famous photographers, authors, and bloggers in the field of digital photography.

ALEXANDER DOWNER CHALLENGED TO LIE DETECTOR TEST

I launched "Poly The Pollie" ten minutes ago. Our first target - Alexander Downer. See the media release here.

TPN finally gets AdSensed

We've finally switched our Google AdSense ads back on across many of the TPN sites this morning and I'd love to get your feedback on how they appear. You'll see them mostly on the WordPress 2.0 sites, which are the newer shows (eg The All American Podcast) and the older shows that have been upgraded (eg G'DAY WORLD). We'll work on upgrading all of the old shows in the next week to the new look. This is version 1.0 of our AdSense deployment and we'll do several revisions of it over the next few weeks. There's a few things that aren't quite working properly yet today (like the little boxes near the masthead that is designed to cross-promote other TPN shows) and will get fixed tonight.

I'd like to thank Mano and his team of dev ninjas for working on this round the clock over the last few days as well as Dazza Rowse for his words of wisdom to me over the last few days on how we should be structuring it.

TPN Flyer promotion off to a huge start

Cheers to Molly Malone for kicking off the TPN flyer promotion by sending me these photos up on the TPN Flyer Promo group on Flickr. Don't forget, the person who sends me the best photo each month (I won't ask who put the flyer up, no names, no names) will win a TPN t-shirt or coffee mug (their choice).

And you can get the TPN flyer from here.

The ValuesHacker Show launches on TPN today!

The ValuesHacker Show. Hosted by Graham Sutherland and Graeme Mann... ethics and values approached from a lifehacker point of view, exploring human values, thinking and resulting actions via discussions and interviews with key people around the big values issues of the day...

TPN #40 launches today with The Community Admin Show.

TPN #40 launches today with The Community Admin Show.

The host, Patrick O’Keefe, founded and owns the iFroggy Network, an internet network featuring content, community and e-commerce sites.

It’s the show for online community owners and administrators. It’s released once every two weeks and features discussions on the management and cultivation of internet communities. Everything from dealing with users and managing your staff right up to the actual promotion of your community and monetization. Real life, in use strategies and tactics are shared. Every episode features an interview, usually with a successful community administrator which allows the listener to learn from the way that they manage their own community. Listener questions are welcome and encouraged, as well.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, then subscribe now!

Chomsky interview is up on G'DAY WORLD

The recent interview I did with American political activist and author Noam Chomsky is online. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

new TPN shows this week

Two new shows have launched on TPN in the last few days.

The Mobile Media Show with Keren Flavell will feature a whole host of guests who are producing content for the mobile phone. The show will also cover news, reviews and discussion about the latest happenings in the mobile media space.

Surface Interval, with Des Paroz,  Greg “Bear” Blair and Andrew Bowie, is about scuba diving, wreck diving, technical diving, underwater photography, the marine environment, diving locations and general banter on diving related topics.

Check them both out and give the hosts some feedback!

Tyme vs Jon - the TPN wars

This is funny stuff. Tyme White, host of the TPN Microsoft User Show, and Jon Watson, host of the TPN GNU/Linux User Show have been duking it out on their respective shows. Nothing like religious wars! You should tune in, it's quite funny.

Check out this great photo Tyme posted up with the caption "someone loves Microsoft"!

 

Some thoughts on the Motorola deal

It's been a huge day. Not only am I preparing to leave for New York in the morning, we've had a lot of great emails, phone calls and text messages from friends and supporters about the Motorola deal. In discussing it with people and the media, I've mentioned that this is a significant milestone in the history of citizen media. I think there are three key points to keep in mind.

 
1. Remember, TPN is a scrappy little 10-month old start-up, headquartered in   Australia, with no funding, no media celebrity at the helm, no alliance with a   major media company, nothing. The founders aren't independently wealthy from a   dot com liquidity event. We're just regular guys who got bored with our day   jobs and decided this whole podcasting thing could be some fun. For a small   citizen media company like TPN to sign a strategic marketing deal with a   global A-list advertiser like Motorola is a major event in the development of   citizen media.
 
2. Until now, the advertisers supporting podcasting have been minor-league   advertisers... software companies, hosting companies, perhaps a beverage   company, etc. Motorola is a major-league player and hopefully their entrance   into podcast advertising signals the beginning of the big guys taking an   interest in reaching out to the podcast-listening audience. Hardcore nutters   that you are. :-)
 
3. The other thing to note is that the division of Motorola that did this   deal is based in AUSTRALIA. Now, why is this important? Because large Aussie   enterprises (even Aussie divisions of international enterprises) are usually   two years behind the US in supporting new trends. Mucho kudos to the Motorola   team in Australia for getting behind this deal.

Thanks again to everyone for the support emails and thanks most of all to the awesome TPN hosts! Without those terrific guys and gals, TPN would be nothing more than a vision. Their support and loyalty over the last 10 months has been fantastic. I'm so glad that I get to spend my days working with such a talented, passionate and positive bunch of folks from around the globe.

Oh, and thanks to the great team in Melbourne and Perth from Pixel Ink Media. Mano and his team (Mick, Rudy & Dave) have worked their ASSES off over the last couple of weeks trying to stablize our hosting platform. We've pulled several all-nighters in the process and they've had to put up with Mick and I bitching, moaning, and calling them at all hours. Thanks guys, you rock.

Finally, here's what the blogosphere is saying about the deal.

OKAY. I'm off to NEW YORK CITY.