Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy [...]
In Australia we are in the early stages of a federal election. The interesting thing about this election is that it was preceded first by a “palace coup” in which the deputy Prime Minister essentially ousted the existing and elected PM. This took place, it appears, as the result of the party apparatchiks determining that [...]
Prologue: (purloined from http://www.fourthturning.com/html/boom_generation.html) The Boom Generation (Prophet, born 1943-1960) basked as children in Dr. Spock permissiveness, suburban conformism, Sputnik-era schooling, Beaver Cleaver friendliness, and Father Knows Best family order. From the Summer of Love to the Days of Rage, they came of age rebelling against the worldly blueprints of their parents. As their [...]
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 [...]
Over the last few weeks, perhaps a month, I have noticed Face Book morphing into something that is quite interesting… There are a number of quite distinct groups of people that seem to form the community, well my community anyway. This observation is based on the News Feed feature… The largest grouping of users (friends) [...]
At Uni, I read Economics. With Social Networking being such a large part of current online lives, I wish I had also read for a degree in Sociology or at least Anthropology. Economists are rapidly becoming irrelevant as the mainstays of popular thinking on the correct way to run an economy. There are [...]
Well believe it or not, it’s not hard. Let me give you (for free) the benefit of the twenty-six years of online activity observation that I have undertaken. Lets first analyse why success on the Internet can be yours, without selling your soul to the content companies. There are three billion plus [...]
Unfortunately in our enlightened world, no-one likes to be criticized. This includes big business, Government and the next door neighbour. Thousands of Bloggers choose to write their opinions and interpretations of current events. Even more choose to hide behind pseudonyms, avatars and anonymous commentary. Why? Because we as a world are [...]
I tweet and follow a couple of interesting people. Australia's File-sharing cops are actually located in Europe. DTECNET. This allows them to investigate Austrlian file sharers without having to be a registered Australian company that is consequently answerable to the laws and regulations pertaining to and regulating companies operating in Australia. I guess that places [...]
It is an unstated fact of life that women provide the nurturing for the men that bring home the bacon. Therefore any potential male suitor needs to know exactly what the bacon is. Guys, a hint, it’s not a 1979 Holden Monaro with mag wheels and a 400 decibel stereo anymore. It’s [...]