I’ve taken a couple of days to process Telstra’s presentation the other day of a working example of a hologram.

On one hand I love it because it is Star Wars cool. But on the other, I can’t help but think about the current situation of mobile phone black spots and broadband uncompetition as well as [...]

A lot of people in the last week posted the above image on their blogs and in news stories with the story of Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar who…
…sent a briefcase with a GPS tracking device around the world via DHL. The route the case took, as tracked on a map, became the strokes of his [...]

I really enjoyed last night’s episode of the The Gruen Transfer.
Anything that gives some insights into the hidden persuasions of commercial messages is a good thing. Plus, Wil Anderson is funnier on the telly than he is on the radio which made the show a good watch.
I’m not getting all Friends of the ABC like [...]

The City of Melbourne has embraced Web 2.0 by ensuring people can provide input and discuss their city planning ideas at the Future Melbourne Wiki.
This is the first major online community consultation for local government I’ve seen initiated here in Australia. Kudos City of Melbourne!
Attention Melbournites: be sure to have your say and take [...]

Tonight at 9pm on ABC1 a new show hosted by Wil Anderson called The Gruen Transfer will attempt to give an advertising industry insiders view of the secrets of how they so easily sell products to consumers.
In The Gruen Transfer (named after the psychological effect shopping malls have on the human mind, first theorised by [...]

Forget the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon now we have a game that puts te internets graetest resource to work: Six Degrees of Wikipedia.
All you have to do is choose two topics that you want to calculate the degrees of separation of links between the topics on Wikipedia and the algorithm does the rest.
We’ve [...]

Photo Credit: RoboBoogie
Apple fans who have been patiently waiting since February last year yesterday got a glimpse of their future second home when this giant banner went up on Apple’s flagship Sydney store at 77 King Street which according to SMH is expected to open at 6pm on Thursday, June 19 and is rumoured to [...]

Thought we should do an update to our original post as there has been more discussion on blogs about the Bill Henson story.
Bill Henson controversy, This is not an argument: thinking about the Bill Henson debacle, Bill Henson : Crikey! says Clive, More On Bill Henson…, In response to the Bill Henson controversy, Henson [...]

The super brainiacs at MIT have created a catalog of all the videos that have been removed from The Youtube for alleged copyright violations. YouTomb lists recently removed videos, who requested their removal, when they were taken down, and how long they were up beforehand.
While you can’t actually watch the removed videos it is always [...]

Predictably, people with blogs have weighed in on the Bill Henson story. ‘Twas the #2 topic on local blogs this week. A long way behind posts about the State of Origin but still a active response.
There is a lot of discussion taking differing views so happy blog reading trying to get through it all…The Bill [...]