You may have seen reference in the media to a new Rolling Stones documentary “Stones In Exile” shot during the year long orgy that the band conducted during the recording of Exile On Main Street – which is about to be re-released. As you would expect the Stones have been doing some PR to support [...]
This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
I bumped into Glen A Baker yesterday at the movies. Glen is a journalist who has written more about Australian music in the media than possibly any other person I know and has appeared on TV as the Rock Brain Of The Universe (he is a mine of information about music). Last year Glen had [...]
Yep, the other day, my partner brought home a newspaper from Franklins.I asked her, of course, “Why did you buy that?”“I didn’t” she replied, “They offered it to me free because I spent more than five dollars and I only got it so we could line the pet cages.”So there you have it. SMH has [...]
I have talked before about using booko.com.au to buy books online. They do a fantastic job, if you live in Australia, of scraping all the information from all the available online book stores together with the shipping costs, and then convert it all from the original currency into Aussie dollars, so that you can do [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
When someone changes their skype profile, as you probably know, you get a flag on your skype directory list that alerts you that there is a message. You click on it and it shows you the changed profile message – some people change their profile message often, some never. I noticed the other day that [...]
Sometimes when you are being serviced by a professional, you have to say “No, I don’t like what you are doing for me. I don’t like your charging regime and I certainly don’t like the lack of results that you are managing to achieve.” Most members of the public consider lawyers are Gods. They understand [...]
Yesterday, the Australian Reserve Bank increased the interest rate so I brought a bicycle, the first one I have owned since the age of 12, forty years ago. What one has to do with the other is not immediately apparent. Stewart Fisks (UK Independent) column today was about what we at Perceptric have [...]
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 [...]