Who is the Best Free Software Advocate?Who is the Best Free Software Advocate?
TED is offering an audition for future TED.com talks in New York on the 24th of May [1]. It would be good if we could have someone advocate Free Software[...]
Category: Politics
Climate Action Now Rally Melbourne 12th MarchClimate Action Now Rally Melbourne 12th March
This morning I attended the Climate Action Now rally to support a pollution tax [1]. The event was well attended, my personal estimate of the number of people there was[...]
The Sad State of Shopping in AustraliaThe Sad State of Shopping in Australia
Paul Wayper has written a blog post criticising the main chains of grocery stores in Australia [1]. That is the cartel of Coles and Woolworths (which was formerly known as[...]
Open RespectOpen Respect
On the 5th of November Jono Bacon wrote a blog post titled “MAKING OUR WORLD MORE RESPECTFUL” [1]. He then registered the domain OpenRespect.org for his manifesto [2]. Aaron Siego[...]
Victorian State ElectionVictorian State Election
Election Tomorrow On Saturday we will have a Victorian state election. As usual for state elections most people will vote on issues related to the federal government, the mainstream media[...]
Unparliamentary Language and Free SoftwareUnparliamentary Language and Free Software
I’ve just read the Wikipedia page about Unparliamentary Language [1]. I recommend that everyone read it, if only for the amusement value, among other things it links to incidents where[...]
Preferring Low Quality and Microsoft SoftwarePreferring Low Quality and Microsoft Software
Is Low Quality in Italian Academia related to the choice of Low Quality Software? Diego Gambetta and Gloria Origgi wrote an interesting paper titled “L-worlds: The curious preference for low[...]
Optimising the How To Vote ProcessOptimising the How To Vote Process
I previously wrote about my experience handing out How To Vote (HTV) cards at the federal election a couple of weeks ago [1]. One comment noted that at one polling[...]
Interesting Developments in Islamic CultureInteresting Developments in Islamic Culture
Shereen El Feki gave an inspiring TED talk about Islamic youth culture [1]. She shows some interesting exerpts from the 4SHBAB TV network which is known as “Islamic MTV“, the[...]
Telling People How to VoteTelling People How to Vote
Yesterday I handed out how to vote (HTV) cards for the Australian Greens. The experience was very different to the one I had when I handed out cards for the[...]