I've been planning to write a post on this for ages, but time has gotten away. Seriously. Since March the 26th. That's the day I felt politics in Australia be changed by the internet. It was the day Senator Conroy went on Q&A, the
Uncharacteristically short post this time: Dan Whitworth has an article at BBC's Newsbeat site about Facebook being so popular it accounted for almost 5% of all page views on Christmas Day. I've got three theories for why this might be: * The Facebook generation have enough of
Was just reading a post from Mark Cuban, Blog Maverick, about what he percieves as desperation on the part of Google when it comes to monetising all that User Generated Content on their site. Frankly, I don't have the time to be a big YouTube watcher, so I&
General
many of our international breathern would be moritifed at a plan where a national goverment tried to enforce a nation-wide internet filter to block specific content. they do it in china - at what cost? - and the world cries foul. then they consider it seriously in a modern western
ConsumerWeb
there's been a lot of talk in the press over recent weeks about the changes in australian cross-media ownership rules. considering that most places in the world don't have laws like this to start with, much less reform, a bit of background is probably helpful. as