It must be one of those weeks. This morning I got a skype message from my friend, Ervin, in San Francisco, to tell me the sad news that Bruce Jackson had died in a plane crash in Palm Springs over the weekend. Bruce was one of the legends of the live sound business in Australia [...]
Apparently 2010 was a year of change… I just got an email from LinkedIn to advise that 96 of my connections changed jobs during the last year. I just checked to find out how many connections I have in this network – 638. So that means that 15% of my contacts changed jobs, which happens [...]
The following is about a person and a topic I have written about before… I think that the people, and the time in history are an interesting metaphor for what is happening now politically, economically, and societally. The Story Of A Refugee Have you ever heard of Peter Drucker? He was arguably the [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]
Introduction For those that havent read the first article in this group – I highly recommend it for complete understanding of this article. ACTA – the Number of the Beast or 1984. http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/4/11/4150002.html There is a strong presumption in US law favoring openness of government documents for a reason: People have a right to know [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
Free-speech via the social networks and P2P would appear to be assisting in lowering the crime rate. In the USA, Internet was an available public commentary resource before any other country in the western world. 1992 was the year that competition hit the USA with tremendous growth in pay-based online services, like Prodigy, [...]
A few years ago, I accepted a commission to write a sustainable development policy document for the little island nation of Nauru. During my all too brief time there (great climate and all the fresh Blue Fin Tuna you can eat – Free – normally $75.00 per kilo in downtown San Francisco) – I [...]
Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It is a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing Napster. BMG, one of the [...]