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• Clive Hamilton doesn’t quite win “Cnut of the Week”

  21 November 2008 in Internet, Politics, Stilgherrian Live

  I’m surprised. I thought that given Senator Conroy’s three-in-a-row victory as “Cnut of the week”, this week’s winner would be Clive Hamilton for his irrational rant in favour of Internet censorship in Crikey yesterday. But no.
  Hamilton is certainly Cnutworthy, trying to hold back two strong tides of change: the change of the Internet, which will [...]

• Kevin Rudd’s pets on Twitter

  21 November 2008 in Internet, Notes, Politics

  Twitter accounts have appeared purporting to be the pets of Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, Abigail the Dog and Jasper the Cat.

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• So many Cnuts to choose from!

  20 November 2008 in Stilgherrian Live

  Nominations are now open for “Cnut of the Week”. Who do you think is futilely resisting the tide of change? I’ll select the shortlist at 8.30pm Sydney time, and you can vote during tonight’s Stilgherrian Live at 9.30pm.
  Senator Stephen Conroy has been the clear winner for the last three episodes thanks to his persistence with [...]

• Links for 19 November 2008 through 20 November 2008

  20 November 2008 in Daily Links

  Stilgherrian’s links for 19 November 2008 through 20 November 2008, gathered despite the rain:

  Brisbane (Mt Stapylton): A sequence of radar images of last night’s severe storms over Brisbane.
  Web moves to front and centre in coverage of Obama presidency | ABC Digital Futures: For the first time ever, a website (not a newspaper or news agency) [...]

• Achtung! Die grosskapitalistischen Hühner kommen!

  18 November 2008 in Sydney

  As long as I can remember, the bridge over the railway at Newtown Square, Sydney, has been covered in posters. Last week the posters were stripped, it was painted a dreary shit-brown — and then a phone number appeared. Last night this paste-up protest appeared too.
  At first I’d been pleased that the bridge was getting [...]