G’DAY WORLD #259

Richard M. Giles of Scouta joins me again today to discuss a list of bothersome subjects, including (but not limited to, user’s experience my vary, please refer to terms and conditions before you set any expectations and refer all complaints to your local member… pffft, I said “member”):

  • Scouta’s recent DMCA take-down notice
  • What’s the good of being President if you can’t stop your friends from going to jail? (I bet Paris wished she’d got on his good books)
  • Universal Music Group tells Apple to stick iTunes up their ass
  • iPhone mania
  • Twittermania – what’s the business model?
  • The Jesus Seminar featured in this month’s Free Inquiry magazine
  • George Monbiot and the One World Democracy
  • More on TRANSFORMERS – Did GM get value for their product placement? And should Megan Fox be Wonder Woman? (Check out this picture)
  • And we also namecheck Bronwen Clune, Chris Saad, Mike Mick Liubinskas, and some others….
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    Converting to Atheism

    On a recent show with Reggie Finley I mentioned that I like to ask Christians this question: “What would it take for you to convert from your belief system to atheism?”

    Chris Summerfield responded today on his blog. I think it’s an excellent piece of writing.

    To cut to the chase, his answer is:

    I would become an atheist when I understand an atheist world view that makes more sense than my current world view of all that I experience.

    He explains his thinking in detail in his post and I hope to get him on the show to discuss it in more detail.

    MODM 3 – this Thursday

    If you’re in Melbourne and you haven’t registered for MODM 3 yet, please do so! We had a great time at MODM 2 (or at least I did anyway) and I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone again this week to talk about digital mobile content. So Pownce on me, Twitter me senseless and hit me in the Facebook if you want to, but make sure you register.

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    G’DAY WORLD #258 – Professor Michael Georgeff on e-Health

    Professor Michael Georgeff is the Director of the e-Health research unit at Monash University. He has over 25 years experience in software innovation and bringing these technologies to market. In the 1980s, Georgeff was Program Director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He was also a member of Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information, a select group of researchers exploring the frontiers of human and machine cognition. During this period, he and his team created one of the first implementations of an intelligent software agent, using it to help control NASA´s space shuttle during space missions.

    I chatted with him recently about the state of e-Health in Australia and about some of the challenges and opportunities in the area. For the last few years he has been working on “Health Web”, an online resource to bring healthcare providers, agencies and patients into one giant online research clinic.

    Michael Georgeff

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