Climate clippings 74
The weekend was a bit ordinary for me, but as supercoach Wayne Bennett says, if you can’t say anything nice say nothing. That’s how he addressed his troops after the thrashing they got in the previous week. This week they [...]
Climate clippings 72
The last Climate clippings was back in March 2012. I’ve decided to start it up again, so we’ll see how we go. What I try to do is to include up to eight entries with an average of no more [...]
The NBN thread we had to have: Malcolm Turnbull’s pomegranates
I’ve been spurred by this story to post a Roundtable thread on the Coalition NBN alternative: Malcolm Turnbull has used an anecdote about being half naked and covered in pomegranate juice to spruik the benefits of the coalition’s national broadband [...]
Wikileaks cables, the ALP and the American Embassy
Wikileaks has uploaded a searchable database of US embassy cables from 1966 to 2010. Trevor Cook has excerpted some snippets which go to the factional machinations leading up to Julia Gillard’s ascension as Prime Minister, with various named “Faceless Men” [...]
Disruptive technologies and public policy
The Rudd/Gillard government predates the Australian release of the Apple iPhone, and the global introduction of the iPad and Amazon Kindle. I’ve never been one for the cult of Jobs myself; if the iProducts hadn’t existed another company would have [...]
Sociological insights into social media in times of crisis
As mentioned in a recent post, I’m speaking tomorrow at an Eidos Institute Conference – ‘Social Media In Times of Crisis’ (details here). I promised to provide some speaking notes, so here they are. I’m in a session with Bernard [...]
Is Labor too big to fail? I
The title of this post is adapted from Jonathan Green’s think piece – ‘Is the ALP really too big to fail?’ I suspect that posing the question this way is to put it the wrong way. Green hones in on [...]
Eidos Institute Conference – ‘Social Media in Times of Crisis’
I’m one of the speakers at an Eidos Institute Conference in Brisbane at the State Library of Queensland next Thursday 4 April. It’s a very topical theme, and I think promises some very interesting and stimulating interchange. I plan to [...]
First LP blogger in Parliament?
Anna’s extremely interesting dissection of the intersections of politics and social media is very timely, as I’ve been meaning to write about the fact that a long time commenter and one time Guest Poster on Larvatus Prodeo, Tim Watts, is [...]
Larvatus Prodeo’s Last Post
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing: the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years. We collectively feel seven years is enough.
Quick link: WEF’s top 10 emerging technologies for 2012
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has compiled a list of the top 10 emerging technologies it believes will have the greatest impact on the state of the world in 2012. John D gave me [...]
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