Here is a video made as a Group Project work by some of the students that are in the BCM 301 class at UoW this year. I thought it was really good work…

Gary Hamel has written a piece that goes to the heart of what I believe is happening right now. Everything that was, is now (or soon will be) the opposite. The move in societies (and every management structure is in and of itself a society) will be away from the architecture of the past toward [...]

There is a massive paradox in how digital technology changes media. It is not just the business models that are under threat – too much ink is wasted on that proposition. What is less discussed is the impact that “digital” has on the consumers. Sure it makes a lot of things free or near free. [...]

It seems that the election yesterday has resulted in close to a dead heat between the major parties – a hung parliament. This can be seen as a major problem in that it can stop legislation going through, or, as I like to think, a huge opportunity for good sense. And this is why: When [...]

Only one week to go until we find out who is going to be our Prime Minister… Its kind of like Christmas, but where you suspect that while you have asked Santa for a bicycle, the likelihood is that you will get either a couple of pairs of socks, or a a plastic airfix kit [...]

This has to go down as one of the most amazing elections in Australian history. In it neither of the alternative Prime Ministers have said anything remotely bold – until today. Julia Gillard said that she would stop following the script and be herself. Does that mean that she might say something exciting or memorable? [...]

In Australia we are in the early stages of a federal election. The interesting thing about this election is that it was preceded first by a “palace coup” in which the deputy Prime Minister essentially ousted the existing and elected PM. This took place, it appears, as the result of the party apparatchiks determining that [...]

I have been asked to run the History 2.0 course for third year students at University of Wollongong this Spring. I think it is going to be fun – certainly for me anyway. And hopefully will be interesting and engaging for the students too! I started a blog for the course to capture some of [...]

I had dinner with Johnny H on Sunday night, and he was telling me that he was in the process of selling his Beemer because it was about to hit a bit inflection point in terms of depreciation – 150,000kms. My Prius had its 140,000km service on Tuesday (yesterday) so I thought maybe I should [...]

Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]