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Is India the new China?

July 18, 2006 — 9 Comments

Indian ISP’s are blocking Blogger and TypePad…so much for a free and open democracy.

No direct link to the post, as it doesn’t seem to be working, but Those Bastards get it totally right….incumbents always play down the financial returns in a marketplace 🙂

nick denton

Article here, and video following, if its legit…wow!

Because BB uplate is…well…late, I haven’t watched it before, but if you wan’t to play the games…or watch it live, anywhere in the world, you can, at quiztv.com.au. It’s on roughly 11:20pm AEST to 1:20am AEST (for me, two hours behind). The unfortunate thing is that it’s hosted by Mike Goldman (??? not sure if the name is accurate). The guy is a tool. When I was at the Big Brother eviction he was like “you broke the seat!”. I only broke the seat because I landed on it trying to jump up for the prizes he was sending out.. a guy two seats up got the prize…it just happens I landed so hard that I broke the seat….tough like Mike…bite me.

 

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According to the new News Limited site perthnow (thank god I can finally get a little bit of local news on the web…given the woeful internet presence of the Worst Australian), News has appointed Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the News Digital Media division.

Freudenstein was previously chief operating officer of British Sky Broadcasting in the UK.

They are literally calling in the big guns now, with Freudenstein to lead News’ Australian charge with the local arm of MySpace amongst his portfolio of sites including News.com.au, carsguide.com.au, and foxsports.com.au. The list also includes the very lame attempt by News to break into the directory market: truelocal.com.au, which most Australians would never had heard off.

Interesting times. After all, NineMSN only leads the Australian internet pack because it’s the default starting page for IE..aside from that though there isn’t a lot of redeeming features there…and of course Yahoo has teemed up with Seven for Yahoo7.com.au…at least a marginally more interesting site than ninemsn.

I’m currently giving Office 2007 beta a whirl (a pile of work on at the moment as well) after I noticed it came for free with the July addition of APC. More on that soon, but if you want a copy and don’t want to download it, most newsagents in Australia stock the magazine. Of course the downside is the magazine itself…. a totally boring read..I’ve found I prefer PC World Australia a bit more in terms of reading, but I still miss Internet.au.

A discussion came up about this on Cam’s blog a while back (sorry, no direct link to the comments on the post..Cam doesn’t have a search box…) and a number of people expressed the same sentiment…then someone else came along and said well why didn’t we all support the magazine at the time by subscribing to it (I’d been reading it since 1995/1996?? the first edition anyway), simple fact is that the last couple of editions I read were awful…they totally messed up what was once a great magazine and I’d actually stopped buying it by the time…and then it just disappeared…obviously many others felt the same way, but I still miss the good old version of it, sure, half the news was out of date by the time it hit the news stands, but they’d have interesting how tos, they’d review interesting sites (including reader sites, I had a review way back in Oct 96!)…it was just something that I enjoyed buying and looked forward to once a month (and I’m not a big buyer of magazines)….oh for the want of a decent Australian Internet Magazine once more 🙂

 

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With the storm in the tea cup still raging, Behind Big Brother reports on a as yet unconfirmed rumour that prior to the Turkey Slapping incident, Camilla was recorded saying the previous day that she wanted to be Turkey Slapped….that’s right, she actually asked for it! Puts a whole different perspective on it, doesn’t it.

 

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In case people hadn’t noticed I was forced to take down a couple of posts in relation to Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund’s Adsense spam program…basically our hosts are weak and gutless…but I’ll leave that till another day. But talking of ripoffs, it looks like Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund are in deep, deep trouble, because Instant Adsense Templates is apparently a ripoff of another program! I kid you not, and not only are lawyers taking action on this one, rumour has it that anyone who buys the templates and uses them may get sued as well because basically they don’t belong to Joel and Eric…from PrivateLabelMonthly.com

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Holmlund.

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by bundling the products of PrivateLabelMonthly.com and reselling
them to the public. This is in direct competition of
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membership terms and conditions.

As a valued subscriber we would like to protect your interests and
have contacted them to immediately cease and desist. We have
already contacted our attorney. Contingent on their response, we
will take legal action.

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How did the song go?…oh the karma’s going to get you…. 🙂

 

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I’ve just written something at the b5media forums I’d like to share, feel free to comment:

My take on gay marriages and what not is this, and I won’t apologise for it….as far as I’m concerned is that the whole male-female marriage institution is based on the Christian religion…which is fine…I’d note here that I was married in an Anglican Church…but what I will say is that if marriage is between a man and a women is a religious tenant, than why do western societies marry man and woman under the state? For example, my mother and father were married in a marriage registry…non religious state thing. Therefore my argument is this. If we want to concede the man/ women is the core of marriage in terms of the Christian religion so be it. But why cant we recognize gay marriage at the state level? after all, if marriage is such an important religious issue, why do Christians recognize state marriages? after all, if marriage is limited to the church, there is no difference between gay and straight marriages by the state, after all both are non-religious. And hence I’m a firm supporter of gay marriage, although having said that I’m a firmer supporter in gay civil unions, at least in Australia, because I think they’d be more politically acceptable.

Food for thought.

 

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helen coonanOur idiotic government has lost it’s jihad against Network 10’s Big Brother, with ACMA finding that the broadcaster didnt break any laws. Naturally, being the self important imbeciles that they are, with all the other problems our nation faces, the Government is now going to try and change the laws! From News.com.au:

THE communications watchdog has found Channel 10 did not breach any broadcasting rules over a controversial incident on its reality television show Big Brother.

Communications Minister Helen Coonan today said there was no breach because a hole existed in rules governing internet broadcasts of that nature.

She said she had ordered the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to undertake a key review of the television code with a view to extending it to the Internet.

“Essentially what ACMA has found … is that because the internet footage was screened live as a webcast, and not stored, it isn’t technically broadcast (under the existing Broadcasting Services Act),” she said in Sydney.

Personally I agree with with Ashley (Michael Cox) on this one: butt out Government!

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