I won’t be doing an episode of Stilgherrian Live Alpha tonight, but within 48 hours I’ll let you know when episodes 6, 7 and 8 will be on.
Links for 02 July 2008
Stilgherrian’s web links I’ve found for 02 July 2008, created automatically from internets.
- China As An Island | Strange Maps: China has land borders with 14 other countries. And yet you should not think of China as particularly well-integrated with its neighbours. In fact, as shown in this dramatic map, you should rather consider China to be an island.
- NASA's Moon Truck Goes for a Test Drive | Telstar Logistics: A prototype of a NASA lunar rover undergoing testing at the Moses Lake Sand Dunes in eastern Washington state.
- Hyperpolitics (American Style) | viddler.com: The video of Mark Pesce's presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008.
- Asthma Weed | Sydney Weeds Committees: This is the nasty weed which keeps emerging in our garden and resists all efforts at eradication. Chemical warfare appears to be the only resort.
Conroy has the Internet filtering report… do we?
Yesterday I heard that the Enex TestLab report on the Australia’s Internet filtering trial has been delivered on schedule.
A spokesman for the minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, confirmed that saying, “I can confirm that the Australian Communications and Media Authority has provided the Minister with a report on its trial of internet filtering technologies. The Government will consider the report and comment in due course.”
So, will the report be released?
Yesterday I suggested, “It’s a govt report. If results are what’s needed politically, we’ll get a summary. If not, we’ll never hear anything again… This is called responsible government, and what Kevin Rudd thinks is a new era of transparency and evidence-based policy. Bah!”
That is all… for now.
Australia 2020 does not haz teh internetz
How clueless are Australia’s “best and brightest” about the Internet? “Completely”, it seems. The “governance” section of the Final Report of the Australia 2020 Summit mentions the Internet just twice seriously.
Here’s what our finest minds had to say…
The “circus” of question time doesn’t give a positive view of parliament or promote confidence in the system. The community should be able to contribute questions to parliament. This could be achieved by greater use of technology such as the internet.
… and…
Government doesn’t seem to be using the internet. It could be such a powerful forum but is currently under-used in the government context.
Yes, Dear Clever People, it could be, and it is. Glad you noticed.
So what else did they have to say about the most significant factor to affect civilisation in, oh, 300 years?
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Politics & Technology Forum videos & tweets
Until I get time to write my essay about last week’s Politics & Technology Forum in Canberra, you can relive it on your own.
Thanks to Microsoft’s Nick Hodge, you can view videos of Matt Bai’s keynote address, Panel 1 on Blogging, social networks, political movements and the media with Annabel Crabb, Peter Black and Mark Textor, and Panel 2 on Politics 2.0: information technology and the future of political campaigning with Joe Hockey, Senator Andrew Bartlett, Senator Kate Lundy and Antony Green.
You can also trawl back through the Twitter stream using Summize.com. There’s a lot of material, though, so unless you’re a complete political junkie and want to read through it while listening to the discussions you may want to wait for my essay.
[Disclosure: I was in Canberra as a guest of Microsoft.]
Antlers! Cocktails!
I take back everything negative I’ve ever said about the Hotel Cremorne. I went exploring upstairs and found a cocktail bar called “Antlers”. Antlers and cocktails? Heaven!