I love boing boing! Check out the cameras and the typewriters but the fashions…omfg!
YouTube – WITI TV-6 – News Update [1982] {1 min}.
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Guy’s article caught my attention because he revealed the rather depressing news that eBooks outsold their physical predecessors on Amazon over the Christmas Consumer Festival. His argument though is nothing particularly new, the idea that our society and culture are underpinned by various needs and the material way in which these needs are satisfied which [...] A friend turned up tonight with a Kindle which he bought out of Amazon in the US for around $350.00 Oz and generously let me play with it for about 5 minutes which makes this a kind of first impressions report. With its thickish device sandwiched between heavy covers with some sort of mock leather finish [...] It seems that the government’s plan to achieve structural separation of Telstra are not going to make it through the Senate this year. Hours of debate over the CPRS (Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme) has meant the bills will now sit in the todo list until next year. Of course the bills were part bluff to start [...] Something about this story bugs me. Maybe its the bare facts, $46 Mil vs $1260 Mil which is about 3% of the total market volume putting eBooks around nuisance value. If you look at the $46M it also includes $22M for one title alone, the ubiquitous Dan Brown so the claim that eBooks have sold [...] Two morsels on the todo list this morning as I watch the cockies fly past the window. Now that the Parallel Import Restrictions saga has been put to bed I guess writers and dead tree publishers will have to contend with something beyond the powers of governments to control, the march of the technology corporations. Perennial [...] One of Mark Scott’s greatest achievements, should he retire as CEO tomorrow, would have to be the extent to which he has turned the ABC into a cultural fiefdom for dispensing government funds to the private sector in return for so-called Australian content. In response to a question in a Senate committee the other day [...] Have you ever wondered what’s behind Twitter or Facebook? The people at TechCrunch have put together some data on the companies as well as some comparative analysis. As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls Further Behind In The Rear-View Mirror. But looking into the crystal ball for Facebook, what are we to make of “Facebook [...] The Goanna had a crack at Mark Scott’s poetry which I thought is a trifle unfair. Unfair to poetry that is. Does the goanna, a metaphorical name complete with illusions of tough sun-leathered skin and reptilian cunning, secretly harbour some poetic sympathies? Could it be envy that speaks when the goanna observes - Poetry, of course, [...] Prominent in the National Times this morning is another opinion piece by Professor Leslie Kemeny, a member of the International Nuclear Energy Academy. Professor Kemeny’s opinion is so valuable that there are two of his articles appearing in the Times this morning. Obviously Fairfax believes two nukes are better than one, an opinion backed up by [...] |
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