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the death of email

By txt | Published: April 27, 2008

The short history of email is the history of the Internet’s ‘killer application’; an application that couldn’t upscale to the commercial realities of the global stage. Spam killed email, volume killed email, chat killed email, RSS feeds, social software, wikis, and blogs killed email. For most people, what was once a tool that promised a [...]

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lectures

By txt | Published: December 17, 2004

Date: Fri Dec 17 10:47:58 2004 lectures Hi all, I am not sure if people have seen this but as part of the Federation Festival next month a number of international and national speakers will bee in Melbourne talking about topics as broad as globalisation, e-democracy and IT innovation. Some of the speakers include Edward [...]

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: December 11, 2004

Date: Fri Dec 17 10:48:11 2004 CHOGM Hi all, I don’t know if I am missing something here, if the corporate media sphere has fried my brain, but here are some of the democratically elected governments that will attend CHOGM in Brisbane. Bangladesh (I think the world’s poorest country) Swaziland Tuvalu Tonga Ghuna Fiji Lesotho [...]

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The New Frontier

By txt | Published: July 26, 2001

I just found this article in Spark Online. It is about the shifting the focus from cyberspace to cyberplace, (something that I have been grapeling with over the past few months). Spark Online is an excellent journal if you are not familiar with it. It has as sections on ESociety and a gallery,as well as [...]

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The New Frontier

By txt | Published: July 26, 2001

> Without having done the necessary thinking or research, and hence > setting myself up for pretty fast invalidation!, I’m inclined to > think national sovereignty is not undergoing a crisis so much as a > transformation, one that indeed has had, as you outline, devasting > affects for many of those under the rule [...]

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The New Frontier

By txt | Published: July 26, 2001

Nice to read of something kind of  familiar for a change, like Fitzroy. I’d be interested in reading  your next instalment though, because your title and a number of points raised offer much … and leave us waiting for the delivery! The United States defines the ideology of globalisation and Corporations are the main catalyst. Here, [...]

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The new frontier

By txt | Published: July 25, 2001

The New Frontier Hi Fibre, I have finally written something serious for once. If you have any comments, then they would be more than appreciated. It is about Australia and globalisation and Fitzroy and technology. It is a little rough, but then again so are you lot. (sorry no footnotes in email) The New Frontier [...]

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ethics?

By txt | Published: July 22, 2001

I have an ethical question for a utopian Libertarian or an “anarchist”. I have a friend who is Labour Lawyer. She often deals with disputes between workers and their bosses, most notably in small business. There are often incidences where the boss feels as though they own their employees and can treat them as they [...]

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ethics?

By txt | Published: July 20, 2001

> As Genoa approaches, I have an ethical question. There are a lot of > anarchists at Genoa, waiting in the front line. From my brief > historical understanding of anarchy, every society that let anarchy > reign has resulted in large groups of people murdering each other.

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uninstructive thinker

By txt | Published: July 13, 2001

>So much unchallenged racism on this list against americans. Is that OK? I’m >not saying microsoft doesn’t piss me off, but my impression is of list >members attempting to create their own private virtual Ivanhoe. > >Maybe this list was always defined as being concerned with australian >issues. that’s OK. But as I have been [...]

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: July 12, 2001

Hi all…some radical thoughts on radicals, Yer, this following stuff stresses me to no ends. How about CHOGM and how the self-appointed ‘radicals’ are now planning to attack democratically elected governments of some of the World’s poorest countries. Sure, I was at S11, I backed the blockading of the WTO and I even supported the [...]

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post-information age

By txt | Published: July 12, 2001

Thanks >The enormous amounts of information available to us all thanks to the Net >is a wonderful thing, it is not a problem. It is how we deal with the >anxiety it can create that can be a problem. Perhaps the cure for >information obesity is simply a sensible diet… Perhaps we are entering a [...]

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SALO Showdown

By txt | Published: July 10, 2001

OK, now I am on this free flow of information vibe here, I find shit-eating really boring. Sorry, always have. The bad old government is stopping us from seeing shit-eating, there for they are fascists…great connection. More shit-eating, more democracy. I thought that fascism was a popular movement anyway, I saw the Nuremberg rallies on [...]

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uninstuctive thinker

By txt | Published: July 10, 2001

I have a few thoughts on email lists, and email, and information, and too much of all the above. I wonder just how ‘democratic’ the world will become when everyone has email and everyone can publish? If everyone talks at once, then no one can hear. There are already too many books, too many web [...]

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6 Reasons I’m glad I live in the McDemocracy

By txt | Published: July 4, 2001

dear craig and list, anti-americanism is particularly pronounced up here in queensland. there has been a lot of military intervention. my heart hurts as a citizen of satan, only recently relocated to australia. i have to comment however, as someone who eschews the exploitative and sappy ideology of mainstream “American” capitalism, that australian capitalist- nationalism [...]

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6 Reasons I’m glad I live in the McDemocracy

By txt | Published: July 4, 2001

> We live in a culture, it is bigger than us. America has just taken over the > surface of Australia (and the superficial). We have our own hierarchies based > on our own history and meritocracies. We are importing McDemocracy, the cheap > popularist 5 minute version of the US (thorough its media), the [...]

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random thoughts

By txt | Published: June 22, 2001

I tend to agree with your comments. It would be great to hear stories from the dot.com world. I have a story from a friend who just got fired form a job in Silicon Valley that I will forward to people individually if they wish. Also, I tend to agree with more contributions apart from [...]

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ECAI

By txt | Published: June 18, 2001

I went to the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative conference at the University of Sydney last week. For those who don’t know about ECAI, I have enclosed a brief description. www.ecai.org The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a time and placed based collaborative project led by UC Berkeley and to a lesser extent, Archaeology at the [...]

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call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne

By txt | Published: February 15, 2001

call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne Hi, I an a disbarred historian working on the history of Fitzroy and milkbars to help understand things that effect the whole world! I also don’t understand what ICANN does, but we could always ask them. Someone once described democracy to me as hanging out with a bunch [...]

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networked pasts

By txt | Published: June 7, 2000

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Maya Angelou

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corruption

By txt | Published: June 4, 2000

Close to home, there is a program on 4 Corners tonight about potential corruption with The University of Melbourne’s float of its MelbourneIT division. MelbourneIT had the greatest “stag profit” in Oz history of any company to be floated. (offered at $2 opened at $8) The upcoming listing of AIM (ASX: AIM) is next week, [...]

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: December 16, 1999

> have a fine day old Chaps, > Craig esq. > Commoner oh fuck off with that~) ben

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: December 16, 1999

Fri Dec 17 10:48:12 2004 CHOGM Hi, this is what CHOGM says about itself in relation to globalisation and trade. I belive the focus of the ’99 meeting in S.Africa was ‘globalisation’. The group does seem to have a trade liberalisation agenda, but within a ‘realistic’ framework that not all states have the capacity to [...]

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Third Way

By txt | Published: December 16, 1999

Date: Fri Dec 17 10:48:12 2004 Third Way Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010805180905.009f6d30@mail.milkbar.com.au> Hi all, I found this article on third way politics that may be of interest. I am not sure if there is a debate in this country as yet, but perhaps it is inevitable. “I have great doubts that policies based on socialist ideology will [...]

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Winners and Losers..

By txt | Published: December 12, 1999

Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 23, 1999

In 1930 it cost $244.65 for a three minute phone call from London to New York. Today it costs less than $4.00 In 1980 IBM predicted that the world market for personal computers over the next 10 years would be 275 000 By 1990, there were more than 60 million PC users.

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 23, 1999

(39 days until the end of the ‘popular elected century’ as opposed to the end of the real 20th century that doesn’t really end until 31 December 2000). In Freud’s opinion, it is true that women gains nothing by studying, and that on the whole woman’s lot will not improve thereby. Moreover, women cannot equal [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 18, 1999

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 11:42:46 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== With only 43 days left until the end of the 20th Century it is possibly important for us, as members of a public institution that is perhaps reflective of and dogged by late 20th Century nihilism, apathy and expediency, to think [...]

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