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? [...]
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 [...]
As regular visitors to this blog would know, we have a keen interest in how networking tools and technologies are being used to aid communication. One of the principal tools that we have watched and undertaken extensive research in is how P2P is used in conjunction with content of all kinds. The positioning of the [...]
I like watching things grow. My Bonsai plants are the ultimate home nurserypersons test of patience, skill and attention to detail. Bonsai plants are akin to swing voters, let the roots dry out once, and they die, soil too acidic, they wither, soil too alkaline, they wilt. Not enough fertilizer? They turn yellow and drop [...]
When Obama was elected in the US a huge sigh of relief could be heard around the world. Now sanity could prevail. The dreaded Bush and Cheney cabal would no longer be in power. And so troops would come home from Iraq and Afghanistan and global warming would be combatted (and maybe even Santa Claus [...]
Today’s “Rant” is about financial mismanagement, misguided economic directions and doom and gloom. There appears to be no way to convince the music business to pull in the reins. Globally, they have done more damage to human rights than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan ever managed to destroy. With the Global Financial [...]
Over the last couple of days the European Parliament elections took place. Gordon Brown's Labour Party was decimated in the UK with them showing up worse than the ultra right British National Party in the UK. Meanwhile in Sweden, the youth vote really got out and backed the party that they care about, The Pirate [...]
Entrepreneurs create by breaking things. When I was about 6 years old, I got into my fathers 10lb Assorted Arnotts biscuit tin. They don’t make them any more – but made of tin, square, with a folding lid (about 450 mm high and 300 mm square, they were ideal for storing “things” in. [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]
The big problem with a case like the Pirate Bay one is that there are no winners. Particularly not the public. And there are a lot of unintended consequences. I think that governments around the world are watching the results of the PB case and are starting to batten down the hatches. The real results [...]