Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
The following is from “The Value Of Nothing” by Raj Patel. The late Oxford philosopher Jerry Cohen concieved a thought experiment that helps us understand how money works, and the way that it intersects with the liberty offered by free markets. When the market rations goods on the basis of money, he argued, there's reason [...]
The Global Financial Crisis is like a huge wall that no-one is able to effectively scale. Governments keep offering ladders to the population, but the ladders would appear to be made of balsa wood. Aided by Hollywood engendered conspiracy theories, consumer trust has almost disappeared. The consumers are concerned. They no longer believe the media [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]
There appears to be some empirical evidence to back up or parallel some of the ideas and thoughts that Tom has been blogging about over the last couple of weeks with regard to the level of growth that Facebook is experiencing. According to the most recent report from Pew Internet “Three quarters of online economic [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
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 [...]
Music is changing. No longer is music just a few guys making noise and girl out front trying to sing. The University of East Anglia in Norwich UK now offers some interesting new degrees. Mathematics and Music, IT and Music, Computers and Music. (Download Pdf.) But I’m getting ahead of myself. When [...]
People keep comparing the current global recession to the one in the 1930's. And in some respects that is quite reasonable. But there is one absolutely mind-boggling difference. This time anyone in the world can find out in seconds news that can shape his or her ability to avoid the storm. We do this as [...]
The other day I said that it was an American recession and not an Australian problem. Three things happened yesterday that radically altered my perception. One involved my neighbour, Ron the second involved my uber geek friend from Europe and the third, an Australian edict to stockpile food. . Stockpile Food For a [...]