Following this year’s Sydney Social forum (27-29 August), there has been a call for a protest against the Forbes’ CEO Conference on the 30th at the Sydney Opera House. I was at a forum last night where there was talk or oganising buses from Melbourne to Sydney for the event.
I’d suggest that this is [...]

This is an interesting initiative. The federal government has produced The Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies.
I understand that a private members bill was put forward by either the Greens or the Dems in the Senate and subsequentially rejected which required government agencies to at least weigh up the benefits of [...]

This is very exciting.
I’ve been a big fan of Lessig for some time.

The 1.0 Guide To The Blogosphere For Marketers & Company Stakeholder (launches PDF).

Science Minister Brendan Nelson has advocated the use of Nuclear Technology in Australia based on the fact that it is “green” energy.
It is certainly an interesting debate. In fact, the wonderful James Lovelock has lost a few friends of late by advocating the use of Nuclear power as a “green” alternative to fossel fuel.
Clearly [...]

This piece is worth a read. Basically it argues that regulation and red tape is killing volunteerism because you now have to have any number of regulations adhered to for your volunteer activities.
It’s a tricky one. Obviously the public has a right to know that food being served is safe to eat and [...]

Andrea Dworkin has died. She was a leading feminist during the 80s and campaigned heavily against porn (but for quite different reasons to the reasons I oppose it).
A lot of people hated her and for good reason. She was highly controversial and, along with Catherine McKinnon managed to pretty well split the feminist [...]

Well those of you who have read the little intro bit to this blog will know that this blog was set up to trace my journey though my Masters thesis. While I haven’t been explicit about this, it is largely what I have done as the reoccurring themes are testament to. I’d like [...]

The democrats seem to get a pretty good run around the blogsphere. Their fate seems to be of much interest to many for reasons I don’t really understand. Moreover the Greens don’t seem to get nearly the “coverage”.
So I’ve had a few thoughts on the Dems floating around my head for a while [...]

I don’t know why I wanted to post this but the song has been going through my mind ever since I aquired The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Soundtrack (which is excellent):
Here’s to you, Nicola and BartRest forever here in our heartsThe last and final moment is yoursThat agony is your triumph