I recently got into an extensive FaceBook conversation/debate with someone that was somewhat ridiculous, but we all do stupid things from time to time. This debate was about CO2 emissions and the role of man. The person on the other side of the debate is a big fan of Lord Monckton, the media shill who [...]
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 [...]
Every day there is more competition for share of mind. More billboards, more radio ads, more TV ads, more blogs, better search capabilities… on and on it goes. In this chaos of brand noise how do you get your own personal brand noticed? There are some very simple steps that can be taken. Its amazing [...]
I read a report last night about a new Internet service called Chatroulette. It is a video chat room, where you get hooked up randomly to people and get to do what you do with people who you meet randomly, I suppose… According to the writer of the article there is a lot of full [...]
What this headline should say is, “What you don't read in the papers in one place but do read in another…” This morning I stumbled on this story in The Guardian newspaper: The story, as is evident from the headline, details the water shortages in the most southerly city on the Australian mainland. And for [...]
I was reading an article today and it struck one of my chords. You know the one deep down that makes you sit up say, “Hey, that's right.” The article talked about the negligible value of news as a “pay now to read” item. Think about it. Apart from the rubbernecking value – [...]
Over the last couple of months the rhetoric from the corporate media barons has been gradually heating up, particularly that coming from the Murdoch camp. First it was the announcement that News Corp would be charging for content delivered online. Clearly Comrade Rupert wanted to put some lead in the pencils of that small group [...]
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, [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
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: [...]