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” [...]
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.
This post brought to you by the letters N, B, and N
When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
world–
The technology world has just lost another giant, though one without the towering public persona of Steve Jobs. If you’re not actually a programmer, you’ve probably never heard of Dennis Ritchie. But the vast majority of software you use was [...]
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