A Bright Future Fund
Peter Costello – take a bow! In securing Melbourne as the headquarters of the Future Fund, the $140 Billion Investment Fund to be set up…
Continue reading →Finally, iTunes is in Australia
I love it, iTunes Music Store has arrived in Australia! It’s great that the best and pretty much only decent digital music shop has been…
Continue reading →Introducing Microcredit
It is the International Year of Microcredit? Microcredit is such a cool concept. A means to empower those who are poor and unable to assist…
Continue reading →Water into a leaky bucket = An empty bucket
A very interesting article in the English Version of DER SPIEGEL, the respected German Newspaper. It is with Kenyan Economist James Shikwati, who PLEADS with…
Continue reading →Talk to Me! I LOVE VOIP. I worry about Telstra.
Voice over IP is the coolest thing since the invention of the telephone. It will grow far quicker than the net. It will be far…
Continue reading →KaZaA vs the world – digital downloads vs legal eagles
Sharman Networks, the owners of the KaZaA P2P file-sharing software, has been sued by a collection of record companies in a civil case in Australian…
Continue reading →Welcome to the New Economy Part Two: CDs are dead
The CD is dead. When will the record companies wake up and smell the coffee? In one of my earlier posts I spoke of how…
Continue reading →Welcome to the New Economy Part One: Halo
The sequel to one of the greatest games ever released, Halo, has been released to the public. On the evening of September 8th, hordes of…
Continue reading →15 Years of Freedom: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Today marks the 15 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The greatest symbol of oppression and truma of the socialist years stood…
Continue reading →Straight Talking on Gay Marriage
One of the stories which has received little coverage in the aftermath of George Bush’s re-election has been the vote in seven US states to…
Continue reading →I bet you any money George Bush wins…
Check out this price/volume graph from online betting firm Betfair. I just bet $8 at $2.50 return and caught the edge of the Republican rocket,…
Continue reading →US Virtual Tally Room
America. The land of the markets. Capitalism. Freedom. The Government doesn’t organise a very good Virtual Tally Room like the AEC does, they let the…
Continue reading →Shock and Awe – John Peel OBE 1939-2004
Legendary figure of the worldwide music industry, Mr John Peel OBE has died suddenly while on holidays on South America. John Peel has been a…
Continue reading →Rupert’s Heart
A great little article which discusses the tradition and family that is News Corp in the context of the last AGM to be held in…
Continue reading →A New Medium?
Robbie Williams released his Greatest Hits album on Monday, which was released on a multimedia card (MMC) format for the first time. Is it the…
Continue reading →A thought about the modular economy
I had a thought about the “modular economy”. Look at the entertainment industry, where large groups of totally outsourced skills come together to work on…
Continue reading →Aussie Hip Hop – The True School
American Hip Hip is lost. The birth of Hip Hop, the expression of ultimate aspiration against all odds, has been perverted by the new school,…
Continue reading →Free trade is music to my ears
The fear and loathing which has poured from the creative industries about the upcoming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US is an ill-informed and…
Continue reading →The Dinosaurs of the Recorded Music Industry Must Evolve or Perish
There was a time when music companies objected to the playing of music on the radio. Instead of seeing early radio technology as a positive…
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