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 [...]
The following is about a person and a topic I have written about before… I think that the people, and the time in history are an interesting metaphor for what is happening now politically, economically, and societally. The Story Of A Refugee Have you ever heard of Peter Drucker? He was arguably the [...]
I bumped into Glen A Baker yesterday at the movies. Glen is a journalist who has written more about Australian music in the media than possibly any other person I know and has appeared on TV as the Rock Brain Of The Universe (he is a mine of information about music). Last year Glen had [...]
(Something a little different to amaze and amuse.) We are familiar with the term the tyranny of distance. Although these days, it applies mainly to the long walk from the deplaning area to the customs and immigration counters and the queues awaiting. In 1874, Jules Verne wrote a play, Eighty Days Around the [...]
Ministers are flying home after negotiating the ACTA agreement, which very soon may not be required.It would appear that there is some experimentation being conducted that very soon could moot the very reason for ACTA. Finally, we are seeing the Content creation companies figure out how to commercialise their products on the P2P networks. [...]
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 [...]
From the “The Biggest Trump Card Ever” Department. I like growing Bonsai plants, I like buying bonsai plants and I love visiting Bonsai nurseries to view other peoples representations of miniature trees. I prefer to visit those nurseries that are grouped. In other words, to obtain the maximum viewing perspective bang for my buck, [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]
I had an email from someone this morning who I used to work with at BMG back in the 90's. Mark Dorset – who runs suburbia.org.au. He had been searching for a copy of a record by a band named Kate. Then, in searching for it online, found that one of the members of the [...]
Last week we talked about Episode 3 of House MD being available legally before the P2P networks got hold of it. In February this year, Channel 10 realising that they were running 6 months behind the rest of the world, changed the sequencing of the House episodes so that they were only two weeks [...]