I watched Obama’s Cairo speech live via YouTube (how amazing is that?). My initial impressions were very positive. I, like everyone else, was in awe at his smooth…
We’ll be talking about the stories of the week – Christians letting their kids die, George Bush’s holy war, the difference between terrorists and heroes, the USA’s stance…
Buy your commemorative t-shirts here! Clare Werbeloff has punk’d the news. Brilliant. For years the news media have been punking us. It took Clare Werbeloff to turn the…
Last night I went to the cinema to see "The Baader Meinhof Complex", an excellent film about the rise and fall of The Red Army Faction (RAF), an…
I’ve written an overview of the Livewire story over on the TPNx blog (which is where I’m talking about social media things). I think it shows one way…
On a recent show, Jon Stewart said that he thought Harry Truman should have been tried as a war criminal for authorizing dropping nuclear bombs on the civilian…
clipped from www.thenation.com TAX TIME: Just in time for April 15, the folks at the Institute for Policy Studies have released a report that documents the stunning generation-long…
Every now and again I get to chat with someone who has been an inspiration to me for many years – Noam Chomsky, Ray Kurzweil, Doc Searls, Leo…
On G’Day World Live this week my guest was Fi Bendall from Bendalls Group. Fi is one of Australia’s best known digital strategists who has worked with clients…
Business Week has an article about the Cuban embargo that contains the following line: “Castro has been able to spin the embargo as evidence of “cruel” U.S. policies…