Category Archives: beligerant

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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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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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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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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Nerds on TV tonight

By txt | Published: August 5, 1999

>Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet : Connecting The Suits Part 2 >Bob Cringely trains his well-informed eye on the intriguing history of the >Internet from its birth deep in the Pentagon to the cutting edge of the >World Wide Web today. Not sure if you actually saw this show, but I would [...]

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Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates..

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:30:36 AM Subject: Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear Fellow Un-evolved Rock Apes, Of course factions of the web community think that the web is ‘the natural evolution of human knowledge”…they get paid for it and they have a great investment in convincing the public that [...]

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suggestions for next hard/software upgrade

By txt | Published: June 11, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 11:29:18 AM Subject: suggestions for next aim hard/software upgrade ===8<==============Original message text=============== >Hi, just a few thoughts on what we might ask santa for in the new year… Making industry pay each student 50K per year for the uncritical embrace of their products and degrading the public nature of university [...]

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labor and Multimedia.

By txt | Published: June 10, 1999

Subject: Labor and Multimedia. ===8<==============Original message text=============== As Victoria has now changed hands from a Liberal to a Labor government, it will be interesting to see what is in store for the multimedia “industry” in this state. Kennett’s government often abused the modernist mantra of ‘technology as progress’ or the idea that imbedded in technology [...]

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