Dan reminds me of a story I heard on an ancient Media Watch episode. It’s Stuart Littlemore-era Media Watch, and is sadly not in the otherwise extensive ABC online archives. hence you’ll have to rely on my somewhat hazy recollection. Don’t worry though, I may have forgotten some of the details, but I remember the [...]
Earlier today, in an email to Brendan, I attempted some gallows humour in relation to the Victorian bushfires:
Of course this is all divine retribution for the hedonistic lifestyles of those ungodly Victorians.
And then, this.
To the cunts at Catch The Fire Ministries: please catch fire.
The window of opportunity for commenting on the Obama inauguration is closing, so I’d better have my say, I suppose.
I’ve been reading and listening to some of the Bush retrospectives, and this one from the Economist is particularly good (h/t Brendan). On the one hand it’s quite gratifying to see that most of the media [...]
Not all software development projects can sustain a reasonable living. Anyone who has worked as a professional developer will take this truth as self-evident. It’s a sad occurance, but often developers for notionally worthy projects find themselves having to abandon their dreams and find gainful employment elsewhere. The failed startup and the abandoned open-source project [...]
Unfortunately the Rudd government are pressing forward with their proposal for mandatory internet filtering. Recently, Electronic Frontiers Australia summarised the results of an analysis of current ISP-level filters commissioned by my old mates at ACMA. The figures are frankly begging to be plugged into Bayes’ Theorem, so let’s do that.
Yesterday’s apology to the Stolen Generation was a very moving and hugely significant moment in Australian history. For most of my life the many problems of Aboriginal people in this country have seemed intractable, even hopeless. This is the first time in many, many years that visible and meaningful progress has been made. I hope [...]
Herewith, some comments apropos of the Macworld 08 Keynote, specifically Randy Newman’s performance at the end.
Firstly, the Keynote as a whole seems to have moved from slick-but-reality-distorted marketing into the realms of straight-out entertainment. Apple are simply leading the pack, and I expect Microsoft and others to follow (e.g. Bill Gates’s CES keynote). At the [...]
I’m still in holiday mode and have not spent much time online studying the reaction to the idiotic mandatory filtering proposals from the new Rudd government, but I expect this editorial published in the Australian is mostly representative. I disagree with none of it.
However I just can’t help passing further comment, mainly because there is [...]
So I recently finished Lawrence Lessig’s Code 2.0 and I am compelled to pass some sort of comment on it. Book reviews aren’t really my strength, but this one definitely deserves attention of some sort.
First the easy stuff. This book is a new edition of an earlier book with the obvious title. The changes and [...]
Some timely and sensible comments from Peter Marks on Radio National breakfast this morning, concerning the 2Clix / Whirlpool stoush. He made the point that the best way for companies to respond to adverse criticism online is simply to engage in a discussion.
I can vouch for this based on experience here on this blog; long-time [...]
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