The movement to mobile is incredible, isn’t it? I have been reading up on data relating to the growth of mobile over the last couple of days so that I can deliver a reasonably coherent lecture on a number of issues relating to mobile to first year communication students at UoW. At the same time [...]
In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
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 [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch unequivocally announced that soon he intends for people to have to pay to access content from his newspaper brands. He also announced very substantial losses for News Corp. Now those losses that were announced may actually be opportunistic write downs, that will enable greater profits to be announced in future quarters. So [...]
Well lots really.We have blogged about the academic nature of the most popular files. We have written about the sociological and commercial benefits produced by many of the downloads Today, we thought we would give an insight into what little Johnny is doing on his PC.Loops.Loops, filters and effects are required by budding young mixmaster [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]
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 [...]
When we first conceptualized One Minute World we had some pretty strong ideas as to what it should look like and what the programming schedule should be and how we were going to monetize it…. All that has changed. The first thing to go out the window was the programming schedule – it was too [...]
Here is an excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut's new book. As relevant to Australia as it is to Americ: “Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.” A lot of people think Jesus said that, because it is so much the sort of thing Jesus liked to say. But it was actually said [...]