If you use Facebook you would know that there is a meme that is traveling around it to swap your photo for a photo of a “doppelganger” – someone famous that you look like. It's pretty cool. Suddenly you see pictures of movie stars next to your friend's name and you realize how much they [...]
Tech guys, this is basic routing 101, skip down to the heading “Conclusion”. Non Tech people, you will get a headache reading this, so take two aspirin and read-on. This is something you need to know. A few years ago, the carriers in Australia ganged up on Telstra and said “Hey – who put [...]
The problem with the Internet is that it’s full of lies and misdirection. Some of those lies emanate from Media barons, some from Politicians. Hell, some even come from Bloggers. But when the misdirection is uttered by a music artist who is worshipped by the young and naive, then I feel that I have to [...]
I used to be a regular reader of the Australian Financial Review, known affectionately in Australia as the AFR. The AFR put up their website in late 1994 – making sure they didn’t miss the rush. Today, I compared this blog site with the readership of the AFR, So even though we don’t [...]
The other day, Chris blogged about a new form of grey marketing. Blitzkrieg Cinema. Blitzkreig marketing is to commit all of your troops, with an in-place supply chain to ensure that the troops have a steady stream of ammunition (in this instance Movies from America). And it seems to be paying off for [...]
I had an epiphany the other day…. For years we have been told that file sharing is illegal. That music piracy is the tool of the Terrorist gangs and is their major source of financing. The content industry has always calculated 15% as the value attributed to physical piracy. This allowance is entered [...]
We all remember Mr. Miyagi. (The Karate Kid, Movie, 1984) Throughout history, things come and they go. To obtain the polish, the wax off procedure has to be as detailed as the wax on. Galileo – The earth is flat, the earth is round. Radio – Newspapers with 24 hour old news, Radio with [...]
Its well known that in times of economic crisis, the best thing an administration can do is take the nation to war. War boosts manufacturing, jobs, and manages to get rid of a few thousand future social welfare entitlement recipients. But what happens when the population is sick of war. What happens when [...]
In the beginning were the shorts, black and white flickering images that were initially shown as part of vaudeville shows, fairgrounds or carnivals. Audiences soon needed larger theaters to watch screens with projected images from Vitascopes after the turn of the century, using opera houses, music halls and converted churches that showed silent one-reeler's (a [...]
Prologue On playgrounds all over the world, kids are saying to each other…. “If you like me, you’ll do it…. And if you don’t do it, then I’ll know that you don’t really really like me and then you can’t be in our gang. Children don’t understand the concept of bribery or corruption, but [...]