When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
In the last three weeks I have noticed a decrease in filesharing. I considered that it might be a response to the unseasonably warm weather that Sydney is experiencing with people prefering to get outside than huddle over their computers. I may be wrong. The population of Sydney appear to be too busy with other [...]
The latest craze (meme) on Facebook is co-op farming. The backbone mainstay of the communist co-operatives and Israeli Kibutzes, localized farms have proven to be vital when attempting to provide food for a decentralized population (more than 5 miles from the food growing establishment (farm, dairy, piggery, hatchery, etc) What about Coles, [...]
A story on page three of the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday (No – I didn’t buy it – Chris did….. he was on the train and likes to do the crossword….) entitled “A blast form the Past: music lovers paying to play quoted some interesting numbers”. Digital Music Player 88% Had Purchased Music from [...]
According to the Guardian a Morgan Stanley intern who is 15 years old, was asked to provide an internal report on social networking, Twitter, P2P etc. Matthew Robson based his report on his friends' habits. It told Morgan Stanley what a lot of people already know… Here are some of the things that he said: [...]
I am a regular visitor and poster on the P2PNet.net site in Canada and its users/readers taught me something new in the last few days. Users are unaware of the impact their online activities have on the networks. For three days I ranted, raved (and generally got extremely frustrated) that they could not [...]
To most readers it is no news that Television is migrating to the Web. With the evolution of the VCR into the TIVO, PVR, VCR, DVR and the ability to download almost any TV show from over the last thirty years via P2P using tvunderground (http://tvunderground.org.ru/index.php?show=show&bst=num) as the indexing catalogue service – why does [...]