Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand the internet
Ed Brown How the world’s most powerful media magnate doesn’t understand media anymore. “We’re going to stop people like Google, or Microsoft, or whoever from taking our stories for nothing… I think…
2010
Journalism should be quality, not quantity
As citizens in the Information Age, where we are bombarded every day with vast amounts of knowledge and news, quality is fast becoming much more important than quantity. Today, former…
Is Kevin Rudd the new John Howard?
John Howard was widely regarded a “smart politician” – in many ways a backhanded compliment. But it wasn’t Howard’s policies that made him Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister, it…
Office software you can afford
Microsoft Office sucks. Sure, I use it everyday, but that’s because I have to for work. It’s slow and bloated, and unbelievably expensive. But what else is out there? I…
Your online self lives long after you die
In the excellent science fiction series Caprica (Friday nights on SyFy in the US… gods knows when elsewhere in the world), grieving tech genius Daniel Greystone develops a virtual avatar…
Securely manage your passwords with LastPass or KeePass
We all have so many online accounts these days. Social media, online banking, forums, multimedia sites, productivity sites - and most people don’t think enough about the the security implications…
Why are we so scared of nudity?
The publication in a tabloid magazine last week of B-Grade Aussie celeb Lara Bingle in the shower sparked a lot of heated discussion. There was obvious talk of consent issues…
Ten Things Not to Post on the Net
HowStuffWorks has posted a handy little guide to privacy on social media. As I’ve mentioned before, on the internet (and social networking sites in particular) you have no privacy. So…
Marriage and Me
As I mentioned recently one of the most interesting facts about me at the moment is that in under 1 month I am getting married. So I started to ruminate…
Introducing….. Me!
Waffle about who I am, what I do and what I might write about….