Next week is the start of the spring semester at university and I am back at the Arts Faculty of the University Of Wollongong for a reprise teaching the Digital Communications course I initiated last year and one other course. DIGC302 is a course that I have developed that last year was a huge amount [...]
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
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 [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements. But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]
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 [...]
I think we are all agreed that users will share music, TV programs and movies whether it is permitted or not. Users have become accustomed over the last ten years in accepting the referral model of their internet peers as to what is hot and what is not. This has resulted in a [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
The opening screens (1 minute and 35 seconds) of the episode are a 3D virtual reality game. The plot as usual is about House diagnosing an unusual ailment. Now far be it for me to spoil the ending for the fans that haven’t yet had the opportunity to view this episode – [...]
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 [...]