It looks like it is going to be a big year. This year I will be back at University Of Wollongong teaching in the Arts Faculty – the same subject as last semester, ARTS301. I had tremendous feedback last semester from students. The subject is really about helping those about to graduate to understand how [...]
The problem with the Internet is that it’s full of lies and misdirection. Some of those lies emanate from Media barons, some from Politicians. Hell, some even come from Bloggers. But when the misdirection is uttered by a music artist who is worshipped by the young and naive, then I feel that I have to [...]
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Yesterday I talked about President Obama, Prime Minister Kevin (Rudd) and Internet users in general liking “it”. Today I though I would try to explain the difference by no clue – or a lack of “it” and lots of clue (mojo), eyeballs, attention – or a surplus of “it”. To understand “it”, open [...]
I guess the new star of the Internet, Zynga has started looking for M&A’s. Not that they want to be taken out yet. Fig 1. Farmville User Numbers daily growth through August. – Source – Facebook. User numbers were doubling every two weeks – although have slowed recently mainly due to transaction (caps) [...]
Tomorrow is the end of the world. For Foxtel at least. Well, as far as having me as their number one unpaid critic. You would think that with all the coverage I was giving them, they would have given me a “comped” account. But no, they ignored me – mostly. Apart from when they took [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
Some time ago we blogged about the resources on the network and how the global file sharing filebase was in fact the worlds largest data archive. It would appear that others have a similar idea. Pirate Bay looks like it is going to give credit for storing of content, in other words the [...]
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the content industry – and the music industry in particular. And the area that causes the most heat is that of downloads. That is important, but it is like smoke that impedes your vision so that you can't see where the fire is. The big issue, which Tom [...]