Now on “A Series of Tubes” podcast
For those of you who simply can’t get enough of me, I’m now a regular guest on Richard Chirgwin’s weekly podcast A Series of Tubes.
Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
For those of you who simply can’t get enough of me, I’m now a regular guest on Richard Chirgwin’s weekly podcast A Series of Tubes.
Stilgherrian’s links for 11 August 2008 through 12 August 2008, polished with a smooth cloth: Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience | TechCrunch: An essay discussing why Twitter users stayed with the service through its severe reliability problems. Why we should be afraid of Google Streetview | APC: Richard Chirgwin’s opinion piece on …
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Such a fuss over new version of the Firefox web browser today and Apple opening a new shop in Sydney tomorrow! The feral goldfish are all a’flutter, feeling left out if they don’t have the latest news this very second. Thank the gods for Richard Chirgwin. In a discussion about how digital rights management will …
The government has released the tender documents for the national 12Mb/second broadband network. As Richard Chirgwin notes, “I don’t think the minister will get 98% of the population, since that last 8% covers a very big geography. And I think that October for announcing the winner is a very slow process. And that a 5 …
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Don’t newspapers fact-check any more? In the Sydney Morning Herald, Jason Koutsoukis reckons most broadband users currently receive only 256 kilobits per second. And yet, as Richard Chirgwin points out, last year’s ABS figures were that 22% of subscribers had up to 256kbps and 45% had more than 256kbps. “Since when is around 1/3 of …
The NSW Electoral Commission has great interactive maps so you can find your local polling booth for 24 March. But they’re based on Google Maps. So as Richard Chirgwin points out, the mapping data is licensed in a very roundabout way. The NSW Government street data is licensed to PSMA (the public sector mapping agency), …
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