http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com Latest info and news on the network Tue, 06 May 2008 04:53:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to TPN's Stan Relihan from The Connections Show for this positive write up in Smart Company magazine! It's nice to report some good news for a change! :-) http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/06/tpn-mentioned-in-smart-company/ Well FINALLY the new servers are up and running! Massive thanks for Jagadeesh, Ram and Jimy, the team at X-Minds who got us back up. You'll be hearing a lot more about them from me over the coming months. If you are looking for a great technical team to work ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/01/tpns-re-boot-completed/ Hey folks, just a quick update about the state of TPN's servers. Those brand new servers we've been building have taken a bit longer to get up and running than we had hoped. The techs are working their asses off and at the moment we expect the new servers to ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/28/tpn-update-290408/ I just informed the TPN hosts that the techs and I have decided to re-build the TPN servers from scratch over the course of the next week. Why would we do this?? Have we gone craaaazy? Over the last week, it's become evident that the TPN servers are completely frakked. Every ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/14/tpn-expect-a-little-turbulence/ As some of you may have noticed, over the last couple of weeks, TPN has been having some significant technical troubles. Our servers were hacked and a bunch of things were broken. This has resulted in delays in publishing shows, RSS isn't working (so iTunes isn't picked up new shows), ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/10/tpn-troubles/ This week on TPN - discussions about photowalking, the future of social networking, the Bear Stearns financial crisis, nuclear energy, a $3 Billion Man, a reversal of the full mount position, The Wire finale, footy, What To Do When You Become The Boss, box office results, with lots of free ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/23/tpn-week-in-review-march-17-23-2008/ In our first TPN Weekly Review, we have more reporting from SXSW, an interview with a visionary, lots of music history, podsafe rock music, digital photography tips, religion, box office news, Napoleon's abdication, Nine Inch Nails news, footy news and management tips! What more could you ask for... Soused Podcast #011 ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/16/tpn-week-in-review-march-10-16/ Starting this month, I'll be producing a weekly round up of all of the new podcasts on TPN. I'll put them on the TPN Blog. If you'd like to keep up to date with all of the shows coming out of TPN, you can either subscribe to the weekly updates ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/07/sign-up-to-the-tpn-blog-email/ Once again, TPN's fearless VP of Stuff, Ewan Spence, has caught the big white bird from his home in Edinburgh to Austin Texas for South By Southwest. Catch his shows from there starting today on TPN's Tech Conference Show. http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/06/ewan-spence-reporting-for-tpn-from-sxsw/ It's been a while since we've launched a new show on TPN so I'm excited to announce The Biography Show starts today! David Markham and I have enjoyed some great feedback from the audience of our Napoleon 101 podcast, so we're doing another series together. The idea behind The Biography ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/08/the-biography-show-001-alexander-the-great/ 2007 was a big year for TPN in lots of ways. We grew; we stumbled; we struggled; we survived. Bootstrapping a start-up isn't glamorous. Trying to keep a fast-growing business alive when revenues are still small and you are funding it organically can be frustrating. Every day bring new challenges. ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/01/14/tpn-report-card-2007/ Dave Gray from TPN's Global Geek Podcast and Dave Wallace / Mike Seyfang from TPN's Extraordinary Everyday Lives show produced a first for TPN last night when they recorded a joint podcast from within Second Life. Check it out here! Well done guys! http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/16/global-geek-and-eel-record-in-sl/ It took me a LOT longer than I thought, but we finally have some new land in Second Life. I hope those of you who were hanging out with us a couple of months ago will come back and help us build up again! Click here to say G'Day in ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/15/tpn-finally-gets-new-digs-in-second-life/ It's that time of the year again when we ask you, our most loyal and lovable audience, to spend ten minutes of your life answering a bunch of questions about what makes you tick. We do this in the hope that this information (all anonymous of course) will encourage advertisers ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/12/tpn-audience-survey-2007/ Michaela and Steve take over The Movie Show this week as I seem to never get around to doing it! They kick off with a review of The Bourne Ultimatum, a film I personally refuse to see. http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/14/the-movie-show-returns-with-new-hosts/ Duncan Riley wrote about his recent experiences at TPN's HQ in Second Life today which is worth a read (link). It includes this screenshot of a spontaneous meetup we had a few days ago. Duncan's post is about the combination of using Twitter and Second Life for spontaneous meetups. We've ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/11/tpn-second-life-on-techcrunch-today/ After a 12 month hiatus (where does the time go?), Dennis Hays is back on TPN with his "Late Night Blues and Jazz Hangout" podcast. If you like blues and jazz, here's a place to get a weekly dose of free, podsafe music for your ears. http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/07/want-to-hear-some-late-night-blues-and-jazz/ A big congrats from TPN HQ to Wayne Turmel whose Cranky Middle Manager podcast (consistently one of TPN's Top Ten shows) just got a plug from BusinessWeek! Funny though that it has been categorized as an "HR blog". http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/07/cranky-middle-manager-gets-reviewed-by-businessweek/ tpnmeetup_001 Originally uploaded by dnwallace We've had a bunch of people visit the TPN HQ in Second Life tonight. All together I've counted 20 people. We've sat around and talked about Second Life, transhumanism, politics, you name it. A very varied discussion. ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/07/tpn-hq-meetup/ You may have noticed that TPN has had a lot of downtime recently. My sincere apologies. It's been a couple of weeks in hell. One of the joys of running a fast growth start-up on the smell of an oily rag is that you never seem to have enough people ... http://tpn.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/04/recent-tpn-downtime/