Hello, everybody, and welcome to another Cana Rince interview special podcast. And for this one,

I'm very excited because I've wanted to conduct an interview with this gentleman for at least

two or three years, I think, since this particular website got going. So without further ado,

I'd like to introduce you all to Tim Colwell of Point and Clickbait.

Welcome to Canaan Rince, Tim.

Oh, thank you very much.

Thank you for having me.

You're very welcome.

Thank you for so enthusiastically agreeing to join me for an interview.

I didn't know whether you were the kind of guy who was happy to, you know, come on the air and talk about what you do or whether you wanted to you know you sort of keep it keep it all under wraps but it's yeah it was it was

always nice to have someone so forthcoming and it will be fascinating I think for us

all to learn about well let's start at the beginning when did you start pointing

clickbait? And what

was it that inspired you to do so? Yeah. Well, I mean, don't worry about the interview. And I love

the sound of my own voice. That's not a problem. The, the, uh, so I actually used to be a

video game journalist. Um, yeah, uh, I worked for an Australian website called games.on.net, which was the games, I guess, arm of an Australian internet provider called IINet.

And basically, the idea was that if you were an Iinet customer, you had this dedicated

games portal, games arm that provided news and information.

And we had our own servers and that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I worked for one very similar over here.

Yeah, there you go.

And basically that ISP got brought out by another larger ISP, gutted, and then lurched

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