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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Dick Smith Kitsch Banned…Wrongly
I’m the first to admit that I don’t have a lot of time for Dick Smith…I mean he’s not Gerrard Harvey (of Harvey Norman) bad but he tends on the xenophobic anti-internet side at times. That said free speech should be extended to all, and despite only very tame innuendo’s in this video, it’s been […]
What Do Prices “Know” That You Don’t?
Great clip from Duke University explaining how market pricing mechanisms work for the greater good. (via Catallaxyfiles)
Chris Berg on Voluntary Voting
The IPA’s Chris Berg puts up a solid argument in favour of voluntary voting on The Panel. The only argument he missed is the most obvious one: if we are a free and democratic society, shouldn’t our democracy give us the freedom to choose not to vote?