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 [...]
Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]
There is the story of the little girl that asks her father if there are any other kind of fairy stories except for the ones that start, “Once upon a time…..” and her father replies, “Yes dear, there are also those that start with If I am elected….”. Well he said he [...]
As regular visitors to this blog would know, we have a keen interest in how networking tools and technologies are being used to aid communication. One of the principal tools that we have watched and undertaken extensive research in is how P2P is used in conjunction with content of all kinds. The positioning of the [...]
Updated 3:14 am 29 August 2009 As Paul Hogan would tell you – “it's all in the eyes”. To control a wild buffalo or the humble sheep, just stare the animal down. Even the media industry understands it. Owning the eyes means access to the soul. Access to the soul equals money, votes, power. So [...]
We had the mining bubble, the dot.com bubble, the real estate bubble and according to the other baby boomer in the Koltai household, we’re about to have the Bandaid bubble. Although in Europe at least, everyone seems quite chirpy about the economy. My partner is a wise owl. (Can’t call her old – she’s [...]
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the content industry – and the music industry in particular. And the area that causes the most heat is that of downloads. That is important, but it is like smoke that impedes your vision so that you can't see where the fire is. The big issue, which Tom [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]
Wouldn’t it be interesting if the current push for a global world government actually went to the country with the most votes. As an economist, I am enamoured of the concept of a united world central government overseeing that all people of the world are treated with respect, equally, fairly and without favour. [...]
Well, I moved to Berry in January, and I thought that I was going to be part of a beautiful small community where life just meanders on blissfully… How was I to know that a proposed by pass to the town would change that… The problem is that some residents on one side of town [...]