Getting Cluey About Elections
Ed Brown “Not even the almost-certain demise of Steve Fielding is enough to make me follow this election. On election night I’m getting as far away from TV, radio, internets and phone…
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Boobs cause Earthquakes, Abortions cause Oil Spills?
I don’t know how she does it, but Jen McCreight always seems to find the wackiest of the wack-jobs, the nuttiest of the nut-jobs. You might remember her as the…
When Social Media Stops You Getting a Job
Is your online life putting your job – or potential future jobs – in jeopardy? Social commentator Mia Freedman wrote on her blog last week how she used Facebook and…
The Case for Coming Out
Jason Akermanis gives Brad Johnson a celebratory tit-gropeThe Twittersphere was in uproar on Thursday after footballer Jason Akermanis told gay AFL players to stay in the closet. It wasn’t long…
What Facebook Should Do
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, claims to have more than 400 million users (a little hint to Facebook: if you have a page of statistics, timestamp it so we…
The Age shows a surprising lack of Fearless Good Judgement
Vile, obscene and offensive. That’s how the Herald Sun described tweets that comedians Wil Anderson and Catherine Deveny made about the Logies. And reading the sensationalist outrage the Herald Sun…
Introducing: Ed Brown
It’s about time I let you know just who I am! Mainly I’m just a smart-arse geek with a passion for technology, sci-fi and politics. I have some very strong…
Mystical Experiences are a Load of Crap!
49% of Americans need a strong dose Wake The Fuck Up. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 49% of Americans say they have had a religious…
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand the internet
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…
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…