Yesterday was a busy day… in fact the whole week was crazy when I come to think about it. But yesterday more than most days… In the morning I attended an event to mark 50 years of friendship between Korea and Australia. (I was there as the proxy for Professor Gordon Wallace from ACES where [...]
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
Today we present a point of view that will offend many, please few, but will attempt balance the mainly conservative viewpoints and opinions that Perceptric strives for. “Conservative? Hah!” I can hear from the peanut gallery. “Conservative my arse! Koltai you’re nothing but a leftwing Bolshevist commie agitator.” Thank-you. You are right on [...]
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. [...]
Last week I was on a panel at an AIMIA conference which was about commercializing video. Through the day there were presentations from a whole bunch of people, as you would expect. But as they were talking I started thinking, “This is a bunch of hogwash”. Now there were some people there who presented some [...]
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I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection. The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England. I used a combination [...]
Updated 3:14 am 29 August 2009 As Paul Hogan would tell you – “it's all in the eyes”. To control a wild buffalo or the humble sheep, just stare the animal down. Even the media industry understands it. Owning the eyes means access to the soul. Access to the soul equals money, votes, power. So [...]
In the last week Universal Music announced that it had signed a long term deal with Big Champagne to get metrics of online music activity. Now since Universal rarely does anything that doesn't have a pretty direct profit motive, I have to figure that, though they may think that it is useful to have data [...]
Some people have attributed to Albert Einstein the concept that “compound interest is the greatest force know to man”. Or words like it. Some years ago in my singularly unsuccessful book, “The Infinite Digital Jukebox” I said that the music business couldn’t fight the two greatest forces known to man – the laws of physics [...]