From USA Today. A funny cartoon, with a serious message. Many politicians and leaders don’t understand the benefits of switching to a low carbon economy. Shifting to a low carbon economy and embracing ecologically sustainable development will bring untold benefits for humanity, and for Australians. There is no doubt about the science of climate change, [...]
Macquarie University has announced that it will migrate its staff email accounts over to Gmail: About 14 Australian universities have already outsourced their student email to Gmail or Microsoft’s Live@edu service, but this week Macquarie became the first to migrate staff to the so-called cloud in a deal with Gmail. … However, the university was [...]
Via Adii of Woothemes, I’ve stumbled across Project 52, a “personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year.” So far this year, I reckon I’ve managed one post per week. A challenge like this may help me keep [...]
Back in June 2009, US Republican congressman Peter Hoekstra wrote on Twitter: Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House. This outrageous and ludicrous comparison comparing the adjourning of Congress to the brutally suppressed uprising in Iran, spawned a (short lived) Twitter meme: [...]
This year will see the UK General Election, where it is widely expected that the British Labour Party will be ousted by the Tories from No. 10 after thirteen years of Government. The election bloodletting started a while ago, although now it is really getting nasty. With that in mind, I suggest that you add [...]
I’ve written previously about a very successful grassroots campaign – Save VCA – and how it brought together a diverse group of people. A key element to the success of this campaign has been its coordination at an early stage. There is a very interesting discussion about the No Clean Feed movement by Mark over [...]
The online tech-head community can often be its own worst enemy, with underground geek/hacker site 4Chan targeting Youtube with p-rn today: For mysterious, probably awkward reasons, the Anonymous (as they are dubbed) hordes are protesting the YouTube banishment of a young Lukeywes1234. The video site nixed little Lukey when 4Chan found his channel and started [...]
The British Conservatives are widely viewed as being on the cutting edge of online campaigning and “digital democracy”. It’s one of the benefits of being in opposition – you don’t have the infrastructure, institutions and culture that Governments have. Oppositions can think big, experiment and (this far out from an election) can afford minor failures. [...]
There is a fair bit of soul searching that seems to be going on in the “No Clean Feed” movement of late, especially following the lack of mass-rallies in support of the campaign following the release of the Federal Government’s report into the Internet filter. UPDATE: Read the key messaging ideas for the No Clean [...]
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