It looks like it is going to be a big year. This year I will be back at University Of Wollongong teaching in the Arts Faculty – the same subject as last semester, ARTS301. I had tremendous feedback last semester from students. The subject is really about helping those about to graduate to understand how [...]
There are several resources that you might find useful that I am posting here if you part of the DIGC302 that I am teaching. For those of you who are taking DIGC302 you may find the completed work from last year’s students interesting. V-Store Group – Consumer Trends and User Interface Consultation – Preliminary Document [...]
If you are completing your degree at university and going into the work force it can be a daunting challenge – if you choose to allow that. It is natural to feel some trepidation about going into a new and seemingly foreign environment. However, if you look at the data, which is always a good [...]
Its the end of the semester here and my teaching gig is coming to a close. Its been very interesting and a lot of fun and its also been a learning experience. 115 students in the course, and 22 in the tutorial that I teach, and then 7 in the other course that I teach… [...]
George Zieman has undertaken a long term analysis of music sales and shipments in the US. He sent me a link to a report that he has just posted which you can read the detail of here. George is not just a recent observer of reporting trends on music sales – he has been doing [...]
During the weekend one of my oldest friends, PJ, came to visit with his daughter. Suffice to say that he takes credit for introducing me to my wife, and we have been married for almost 30 years, so that has to take the friendship back a long way! PJ is out from the UK for [...]
Systems evolve over time. Look at the eco-system that drives most of the western world. It has been around for a relatively short time in historical terms. It is a sub-set of capitalism that may now be showing signs of weakness as a continuing driver for wealth creation. I’m talking about consumerism. Consumerism is assumed [...]
Introduction Over the last several months a number of reports have been published on the impact of file sharing of popular music on Europe's macro economy. The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of arguments that have been made that are provably false or present data that is contrary to other so-called [...]
On December 15th Nina Paley posted a video to You Tube called “Copyright Is Not Theft” with some video and lyrics and invited people to write music for it. Here it is: Within a day someone had provided a Gypsy Jazz soundtrack…. Here it is: By the 18th a growing number of remixes were being [...]
Two Sundays ago I was in a shop in Bowral, Christmas shopping. I asked the lady who ran the shop how her Christmas trading was going. She said, “Well, it hasn't started yet. I'm hoping that it will start today….” Last Saturday I went into the local bottle shop in Berry, and asked Justin, who [...]