Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

PwC and IBM settle graft allegations Aug 2007

From the most excellent Sox First blog comes news that PwC and IBM say that claims they used bribes to win government contracts is just STUPID! FOOLISH! PREPOSTEROUS!…

G’DAY WORLD #279 – Jack Marx, sacked Fairfax blogger tells all! Aug 2007

Jack Marx wrote a popular blog called THE DAILY TRUTH for Fairfax, a large, old and very, very tired Australian media organization. In 2006 he won a very…

Report: Newspapers Cost Employers $5 Billion Aug 2007

Newspapers, a 19th century global social networking craze, could cost employers up to $5 billion a year in productivity. The persistence of the “offline internet” in workplaces has…

G’DAY WORLD #278 – Shekhar Kapur, Film Director (X | Media | Lab) Aug 2007

Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998),…

Fairyfax sacks blogger Aug 2007

Mike Van Niekerk does it again. Barely a month since James Farmer left Fairyfax as the guy running their blogs, blogger Jack Marx gets sacked for writing what…

On The Chris Pirillo Show Aug 2007

Chris Pirillo tested out bringing in Skype video onto his Ustream show today by getting me chatting about my recent Windows Vista disasters. Check out the image below.…

Get TPN Out Of Podshow Aug 2007

It has just been brought to my attention that Podshow seem to still be sucking up TPN feeds and adding them to their directory. Which would be fine,…

Digital Ministry has second thoughts about Facebook Aug 2007

Chris and the folks at Digial Ministry have stopped allowing people to register for their Facebook group just below the 1000 cutoff and have listed their reasons on…

The Australian election is over: Rudd gets screwed by Rupert Aug 2007

Well it looks like Rupert has chosen – the Coalition will win the next federal election. And it’s straight out of The Godfather Part II. Remember when Tom…

Speed of Light broken? Aug 2007

Cait pointed to this on Twitter. There is some debate in the article about the interpretation of the data, and it isn’t the first time I’ve seen researchers…