Probably the best Downfall parody video I've seen. Well scripted and even has the words matching up in places!

Here's some excerpts from emails I've received since Friday 6 August. That's 19 emails in 3 days.

The people have spoken!

It seems they want someone who can solve technology problems on the radio as well as also doing something on TV.

Now of course, Ryan is doing a sterling job in my place on @6PR – but everyone has a different way of approaching problem solving. I'm pretty sure there's room for two.

Let's see if we can get @720perth interested!

What do you think? Add your comments below.

I must admit I miss your tech segments on 6PR. There are not many radio segments I try to take in as a matter of course, but yours was/is definitely one.  The 6PR talkback aspect was good coz it gave air to a wide range of problems, which I found good to learn from. 

Whilst I am an Apple man, the rest of my family are Windows based, and I am the one who has to sort their problems for them. Coz of you, we are Trend based now….

Would definitely prefer a radio slot by you as it would be more practicable for me as compared to TV.  Thus assuming 6PR is finished for you now, I would think approaching the ABC for talkback would be the way to go, but not sure how commercial reality would affect your ability to recommend brands and stuff.
Rob McDonald

I support the idea of you conducting a full half hour and I mean a FULL HALF HOUR of both tech talk and talkback to people with problems or confusion about the operation of their pc's.

It would be a great deal better to have this segment on the radio during the working week and during working hours, the less than 15 minutes that James Lush gives you on a Sat morning is hardly worth it.

I am prepared to email this to the ABC and to West TV.
John Bryant

I went along to a Thought Leaders WA presentation by Jason Clarke – and it was fantastic. Jason is widely regarded as one of Australia's best speakers – and I can see why. It was thought-provoking, fun and made me challenge quite a few long held assumptions.

If you're in Perth and you can make the next one, I highly recommend it.

Enjoy this testimonial produced by those devilishly handsome blokes at LushTV.

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I figured I might as well document it here and see how people feel about it.

Proposed Name: Got My Vote
Proposed Website: www.gotmyvote.com

Pitch:
A Panel of up to 6 relevant people with Anchor and Studio Audience ala ABC's "Q&A" but with live webcam, skype, twitter, telephone, studio & viewing audience participation.

The fundamental difference being a web-based live voting system for all viewers where "The Worm" is live on the screen throughout the entire show. This will of course require registration to reduce the effect of "gaming the worm".

It's "The Worm" that gives rise to the name of the production "Got My Vote". Everything discussed on the show will be judged by the audience. I like to think of it as "Talkback Radio with Pictures".

The first truly democratic television production where viewers can actively participate by influencing the overall direction of the worm in real time.

This is particularly well suited to Community TV and would also foster an active audience who could participate through the week at the gotmyvote.com forum.

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The Gulf Oil Spill is going from bad to worse. It's catastrophic. I'm reading experts in the field saying this is the worst environmental disaster in living history.

See for yourself. 12 Live Camera feeds of the oil/gas billowing out.

http://www.sanaracreations.fi/rov-feeds/index.html

I'm not too scared to say this actually brought a tear to my eye. 

He sure put a lot of time into this.

Cop rescues Dog and then gets a eye-misting surprise.  It's only 3 minutes long, so make sure you watch the whole thing!

In a grand experiment, Telstra gave me and 24 others a HTC Desire to review with absolutely no requirement for us to say anything nice about it. It's a brave & clever initiative that leverages the vast world of social media and those who are considered "influential".

I was fortunate to be selected and whilst I feel a little bad about sledging something I was given for free, the deal was for us all to be completely honest about our experiences. So that's what you're going to get.

Lets get it started.

I’ve been both pleasantly surprised and horribly disappointed by the phone – and unfortunately my disappointment is little to do with HTC and mostly due to Telstra.

The screen, camera, speed and functionality of the phone is awesome. I use it in an Enterprise environment and the Exchange connectivity has been terrific – email, calendar, contacts – they just work as they should. The social media functionality is great, I’ve been happily twittering and facebooking with no headaches. The multitasking makes me smile every time I think of it. It just stomps all over the iPhone.

The reception is beyond what I expect of a phone. Places I’ve always known as dead spots now work perfectly. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth both have an extraordinary range and for me, the battery life has been acceptable even with everything including GPS switched on. It easily gives me 16 hours and that’s all I need.

The HTC Sense interface works well enough. I love the concept of home screen widgets – but I do have an issue with the drawdown bar at the top of the screen being too small – it's ok once you get used to it. That said, the digital clock and weather being on the front face is very pretty indeed. The Live backgrounds are unnecessary but fun and a nice reminder you're using a powerful device.

I also cannot fault the Next-G network. The speed is magnificent, YouTube plays with no buffering and I’ve surfed websites like being in front my desktop PC. The pinch screen gestures allow you to zoom in and out and the auto-sense for phone orientation means you can spin the phone to automatically make web pages more legible.

But then there’s the negatives.

This phone runs Android. Android is cool because it’s open source and customisable. Or at least it was until Telstra got its hands on it.

They’ve managed to change one of the primary selling points of this phone by making it such that Telstra's applications simply cannot be removed. And even more frustratingly, they’re applications that simply don’t work on Wi-Fi – they can only be used on the Next-G network.

I don’t mind Telstra whacking their logo on the back of my phone. I don’t care that they badge my boot screen, but I do care very much when they install applications that I cannot remove. Especially when they’re totally lame things like “Send a Card” and “Sport”. To make it even more facepalmworthy, they've even named some of their apps the same thing as much more functional tools… so you can only tell them apart by icon.

It also appears that I cannot "root" my own phone so I can install my own ROMS. Unlike every other Android phone on the market, I cannot modify my phone to be what I want and need it to be.

It's enough to send a Geek like me into a total Nerd Rage.

Normally when I get a new device, I learn about it, discover the pros and cons and find myself using it in spite of whatever shortcomings it has. You can usually work around things… but removing the ability to modify my UI experience leaves me frustrated, angry and disappointed.

So would I recommend this phone to others? Yes. Wholeheartedly. But with a caveat.

I would only recommend it to non-technical folk. And I suspect that’s not really the market this phone is aimed at.

I cannot recommend the Telstra HTC Desire to anyone with any kind of technical ability because frankly, Telstra did it their way with no respect whatsoever for the end-user experience.

So I now reach out to you Telstra. Release a ROM for the phone that allows us to return to the core of the Android experience. Allow HTC to deliver a non-Telstra branded HTC Desire ROM. You don't have to push it on everyone, but make it available for those of us who know what we want.

It's such a shame. It's a truly great phone on a truly great mobile network. 

But I think the Marketing Goons have ruined it for everyone.

"I woke up, I wrote this tune, it's going to get me lots of poon".

Do you listen to Perth Radio? Do you want a chance to make it better? 

Well someone is listening – and they want to know what you think. Grab the opportunity while you can to have your say. 

Your feedback is important and it may even help me get back on the wireless a bit more often!

Give it a go.

It can only make things more interesting!

Another awesome track from Pomplamoose

Who knew there was a such a green solution to the Gulf Oil Spill?

It's a reasonably long clip but well worth watching the demo.