Making Everything Proprietary
on Nov 20, 2009 in Main Page Ideas Most people in this world are regulated by their immediate needs and the stimuli that they receive from the media around them. They go to work to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and sex - living examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. An...

Dealing With Optus Satellite Service
on Nov 18, 2009 in Main Page Customer Service Those of you who live in the city and are able to get broadband via cable or via ADSL with all you can eat plans.... you don't know how lucky you are!Here in the Australian bush - not that where I live is bush really - its just a place where Telstra...

Pushback Against Music Industry Actions Would now seem to include Governments.
on Nov 17, 2009 in Main Page Economics Government Gobal Financial Crisis Filesharing Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement.   History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Gove...

Continuing Disruption For The Music Industry
on Nov 14, 2009 in Main Page Entertainment Entrepreneurs You have to be sorry for the people in the music industry. (Actually I am not sorry for them at all - they have had enough limos and lunches for one life time, so might be time to do an honest day's work!). Have a look at this story in Wired about th...

Disruption To Real Estate Values - Coming Soon To A Beach Front Near You.
on Nov 14, 2009 in Main Page Change Back at the beginning of the 20th Century H.G. Wells, the great science fiction writer and visionary, wrote about the way that civilization would become ruled by scientists, engineers and managers. That is what is taking place – regardless of the n...

The Future of Australian Television – Taxation, Licensing, Advertising or Criminalization?
on Nov 13, 2009 in Main Page Intellectual Property Strategy Perceptric Thinking Licensing P2P Politics Internet Revolution Gobal Financial Crisis Filesharing Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”.   We have Ministers flying all over the world to dis...

A Centrally Managed Economy - Socialism By Choice?
on Nov 13, 2009 in Main Page Change We live in what most people would call a democracy.   But there is a bit of fantasy associated with that description, don't you think?   The government through its policy announcements is driving more and more towards a centrally contro...

File Sharers Don’t Like to Wait for the Ratings Period.
on Nov 11, 2009 in Main Page Change Entrepreneurs The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series.   For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet u...

Spam
on Nov 11, 2009 in Main Page Media In the last couple of weeks, the amount of spurious comments that have been posted to this blog have increased out of sight. It used to be once in a blue moon that I would see overt spam. Now it is daily....I wonder... Is this an increase in bots tha...

As the World Changes – Again – the TV Top 50
on Nov 9, 2009 in Main Page Change Intellectual Property Marketing Media Ministers are flying home after negotiating the ACTA agreement, which very soon may not be required.It would appear that there is some experimentation being conducted that very soon could moot the very reason for ACTA. Finally, we are seeing the Con...