Surfarama

I don't know Jason Calcanis, but he seems to be one of those polarizing personalities, and I am sure that's the way he likes it.

Based on what I have read about him, what I've read on his blog, and what I have seen of him (at SXSWi) I have variously thought he was arrogant, ignorant, genius, and savvy.

With this last post his stock just went up in my book alot...I am beginning to like the guy:

You have those things it really doesn’t matter what the idea is… you can change your ideas all day long, in fact evolving is what you’re supposed to do in business. However, you can’t substitute hustle, passion, or resiliency.

...never a truer word said.

Have a look at these these prices for broadband from Telcom New Zealand.

When we were in the US we had unmetered broadband (full noise both ways) into our apartment for about US$60/mth and that was expensive...

Telecom New Zealand on the other hand wants to palm off asymetric broadband with download caps as the real deal...PEOPLE, 256kbs is not broadband, and the real thing is not asymetric. And just to make things worse if you want any kind of real download capacity you have to pay...NZ$475/mth for 5gb!! Go figure.

That's what we get for having a virtual monopoly. As soon as some reasonable alternative is available I'll be the first person to leave TNZ behind.

This iPodlounge interview with Evan Williams is interesting, if mostly for the screenshot of Odeo...it looks really slick.

Infact it makes Podshow.com look like amateur hour...There's not enough information at this time to judge to what extent these are the same play, but from my view in the cheap seats they look pretty similar and Adam Curry is going to have to present something pretty sweet to out do Odeo.

Only time will tell I guess...I can wait to futz about with these things.

Here's the feed for my personal podcast channel.

A fairly obtuse post from Marc Canter, which I am mentioning because it represents the confluence of a couple of things I have been thinking of recently...

First of all, since getting my new XDA II Mini pocketPC and also by chance a new Nokia 62(something or rather), both of which do video, I have been thinking how cool it would be to have a flickr type site for video. Specifically I have been thinking about cellphone-cinema, movies made on cell phones...I think people would be totally into that.

In thinking about this I have of course wondered if/when Flickr would ever extend the site to enable video, and I have also been wondering about the role of ourmedia.org in these types of things...all of which is why when Marc Canter (of ourmedia.org) mentioned "Flickr for video" I had to post about it.

And I got carried away the other night and registered cellywood.tv...that would be a cool name, right!

Update: Oh yeah, I forgot about Vimeo...hmmm.

Great news from Feedburner about their 2nd round financing...they're going great guns.

Back in early 2004 I got pinged by the folks at BVCapital fishing for insight into the 'RSS space'. Feedroll was quite new back then and I guess they wondered if there was a future in RSS syndication (in the original sense of the word). I told them about my plans for FeedrollPro, but they weren't convinced, which is fine because we're doing OK. More to the point of this post, I also told them to look at Feedburner because even then it was clear that Feedburner was creating a service built on real demand...when you're right you're right.

NB: BV Capital didn't take my advice, or atleast they are not investors in Feedburner.

I was just looking at the early bird prices for season passes at Mt Ruapehu here in New Zealand, and notice that they have a recipricol deal with Copper Mountain in Colorado...seems if you buy a 2005 season pass for Mt Ruapehu you can also use it to ski at Copper for the 2005/2006 season (see the section on pass benefits).

That must be some kind of sweet deal. You can pick up a 2005 Mt Ruapehu season pass at the early bird rate for NZ$319 (that's only US$226 at present exchange rates).

I am not sure what you'd expect to pay for a regular Copper season pass, but I'll wager it is more than US$226....does anyone know for sure?

UPDATE: I just found this page which advertises Copper season passes for US$695, which means that the Mt Ruapehu pass is about 1/3 the price. That's good value...I would advise though that you check it out with Copper Mountain first just to be sure about the recipricol arrangements with Mt Ruapehu first.