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 [...]
A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time reading and blogging about the global economy. There were lots of signals that things were looking bad, and finally the proverbial hit the fan. But in actual fact, it really wasn't that bad. As we, in Australia, can attest to. So pretty soon the [...]
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 [...]
I have been amazed at the outpouring of emotion about the decision by the court last week in favour of Larrikin Music in its plagiarism suit against EMI Music. This is in relation to whether “Downunder”, the iconic Aussie song from Men At Work, infringed “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree“, the iconic song [...]
From my buddy, Ervin Grinberg comes this gem… Differences Between Christmas and Chanukah Christmas is one day, same day every year. December 25. Jews love Dec. 25th. It's another paid day off work. We go to movies and out for Chinese food, and Israeli dancing. Chanukah is 8 days. It starts the evening of the [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
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 [...]
The Game of chess has more pawns than any other piece. This is so that pawns can be used as both the initial onslaught and the defensive line. Which, depends on the player, who’s role of course is to increase his military capacity and strategic advantage whilst at the same time attempting to decimate [...]
I was reading an article today and it struck one of my chords. You know the one deep down that makes you sit up say, “Hey, that's right.” The article talked about the negligible value of news as a “pay now to read” item. Think about it. Apart from the rubbernecking value – [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is an article written by an occasional misogynist for the consumption of open minded readers. Feminists may take exception to the conclusions reached and may possibly be offended. The sixties heralded the arrival of near goof proof birth control. The weapon that women of the world needed to finally become equal [...]