Category Archives: bored

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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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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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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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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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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