When I was a little boy, growing up, my mother attempted to instill into me some manners. For example, on the subject of visiting I learnt never to arrive somewhere [a private house] without a gift for the matriarch of the household. Regular readers would be aware that I enjoy growing Bonsai or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
We''ve enjoyed watching the growth of Farmville from nothing to the number one “Coolest Thing” on the internet.OK – it's subjective – you might not like it – but nearly 50 million users do. Thats 2.5 times the population of Australia, 1/8 the population of the USA. So it's gotta be worth a mention. The [...]
One of my Facebook based Farmville neighbours is only 9 years old. She’s located in an ex-soviet bloc country in Europe and she likes to use me for English practice. I reply in monosyllabic polite manner to her simple questions about what is Australia like and today’s weather forecast. No-one obviously has told her [...]
When I first signed up for a Facebook page – about 2005, I did not quite “Grok” Facebook. Why would a user want to say what they were eating for breakfast? Better yet, who the hell would be interested? I didn’t understand the sheep meme. Look at me – I can do this, you [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]
In 1996, I was in Teheran, negotiating the overflight of Iran for Qantas 747’s on their way to and from London-Singapore. By installing three Ground radar installations in Iran, Qantas was able to save millions off their annual fuel bill. The problem was political. Did Iran want Australian planes overflying it’s airspace? Well it [...]
All over the world, bankers, economists and Governments are watching the growth of Facebook with envy.Imaging getting a hundred million new customers between April and September. Wow. Pretty good stuff. Wouldnt it be great if we could grow the the country's economy the same way. Well – the good news is – there is a [...]