@wolfcat Yes, @SnarkyPlatypus has a special place in my menagerie. It’s specially reinforced and has a hose attachment thingy.
Selfish prick Queenslanders evict homeless croc. http://is.gd/5jB0 (But is there anything you can’t do with gaffer tape?)
OMFG! My Tweetstats have gone berserk! http://is.gd/j1Y Got that? THEY have gone berserk. I, on the other hand, am perfectly normal.
@trib Well, yes, webcam and Cam Twist software alike are limited to 4:3. Ustream is now offering 16:9 streams, tho, but dunno resolution.
@trib Yes, “Stilgherrian Live” is made in 4:3. Well, for the time being… ;)
@Lafinboy Not so much Cary Grant movie: too much light, the music funkier rather than mellow But that’s convinced me it’s a cocktail next.
Continuing to sip a gin & tonic at the Concourse Bar, Wynyard Station. Gently bubbling music and conversation in the background.
@m0nty For “Stilgherrian Live” I use Cam Twist for video mixing, Audio Hijack Pro & Soundflower for audio mix. I think I blogged links once.
Knock-off drink at the Concourse Bar, Wynyard Station. It’s not glamorous, but that’s the point. It’s relaxed, not full of drunk traders.
I has the Success Whale! My Darlinghurst client has taken good care of him. Well, they sat him on a shelf. He survived.
Wrapping up at the Darlinghurst client’s office. Have I covered everything on today’s checklist? Do I care enough to care?
RT @PeterBlackQUT: the wall street journal is preparing a piece on the proposed clean feed
I’m at the easternmost side of the white desk, leaning slightly back in my chair, in the inhale part of a breath. http://bkite.com/zomfgwtf?
Tweet 11,000. Significant? Not in and of itself, perhaps, but it’s happening at a time of Significance. You’ll hear more… soon enough. :)
@riayn I don’t think the comments were EVER open on that article. I may be wrong. It’s just bizarre though.
@michaelmeloni Right. Aust Women Online’s idea of “rational debate” is a screechy bulk email calling people “stupid”. Works for me. [sigh]
Meanwhile @mpesce’s take on the Internet censorship debate is up at ABC Unleashed. http://is.gd/5haJ
Last night I criticised Aust Women Online for their hypocrisy in http://is.gd/5cw1 Check their “rational debate”! http://tinyurl.com/68cyp9
@fabicus The problem when you say “you could go the full goatee” is that I can’t help but visualise farm animals. And it’s not wholesome.
@trevorcook Nice piece: “Newspaper: So, let’s pretend the Internet doesn’t exist” http://is.gd/5nS5 Now pls fix the typo in my comment. ;)
Want to know what living with The Great Firewall of China is like? Use this Firefox plug-in to re-create the experience. http://is.gd/5ko5
Wow. Japan sacks its air force chief after he says Japan wasn’t an aggressor in WWII. http://is.gd/5nzD
Sat plan (well, yeah): Potter around; 1200 Apollo goes to the vet; write essay for MEAA’s “The Future of Journalism” report; then dunno.
RT @deanlk: “I’d say a few rungs higher. Minor net celebs get cached. BB contestants instantly forgotten.” But EVERYBODY gets cached.
@retrogrrl @limburger2001 Ta. I’ve had more positives from that article than any other in Crikey so far. I’ve done 33. http://is.gd/28pR
@limburger2001 Thanks. Yes, phrases like “the pointy-steel-pokey thing” really do make me a “serious journalist”. ;)
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: “You’re a minor internet celebrity tho. That puts you on the rung just below the first person voted out of Big Brother.”
Oh noes! My Crikey article “Conroy thoroughly tangled in his own Rabbit-Proof Firewall” [cough] escaped from the paywall! http://is.gd/5n51
@SnarkyPlatypus How DARE you ignore my desperate pleas for attention! [sulks] [makes Conroyesque duck’s-bum mouth-pucker gesture]
@SnarkyPlatypus Excellent. With free Internet access you can read what we’ve all been saying about Senator Conroy!
@Colgo The key is that the API (application programmers interface) is openly documented, conforms to simple standards.
@Colgo Twitter has an API http://is.gd/3xVf so anyone can directly interrogate the database of old tweets. Tweetstats uses that.
He can’t be that damaged. He keeps eating, hobbling around demanding attention and wanting to be let outside. Probably just broken. Idiot.
Emerges. Looking to see when the vet opens so we can take Apollo and his swollen leg to get x-rayed or whatever they’ll do.
OK, computer away time… I’ll stay off-grid once I get home too… [exit]
I choose NOT to alight at Newtown on Hallowe’en since it’ll be full of wannabe gothlings who I’ll want to kick repeatedly. With a knife.
@middleclassgirl Heh! Yes that Saturday evening Tweetstream http://is.gd/4vNu was kinda fun. I re-read it tonight and enjoyed it.
Catchphrase humour IS the humour of pointless drunk fat blokes in urinals.
@Lafinboy Well “The Wedge” made a whole series out of the same 3 jokes repeated over and over again. “Little Britain” too. [yawn]
@middleclassgirl “Poignant?” There’s nothing poignant about Wynyard Station. It is, as I say, a giant urinal.
@neerav Fuck! My Follow Cost http://is.gd/42oY is “only” 3000-odd milliscolbes now, but it just said I had a “nuclear follow cost”! ;)
Despite the recorded announcement 724 times “The next train on platform 6 will not stop here” she still asks, “This one doesn’t stop?”
“Hey! Listen! [giggle] See who’s on this one! Hurry, man, and I’ll get the other one and beat youse! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Oh, FFS!
“I reckon you’re gonna catch that one, and you’ll just miss this one! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Eureureureureureur!” So fuckin’ funny, yes.
Like most urinals this time on Friday, there’s a couple of fat drunk blokes thinking their meaningless sentences are the height of hilarity.
I know I’ve said it before, but Wynyard Station is really just a giant urinal with train tracks running though it.
The time has come for me to perform some sort of geographical transform. I’m hoping it won’t hurt. Well, that it won’t hurt ME.
@ragnarok1971 Exactly. I am as precisely normal as Kate Winslet. In many ways. In fact, has anyone seem us both in the same room? SPOOKY!
@kdelarue “Idiosynchronicity” a neologism? Dunno I just copy’n’paste. I’m like Julie Bishop in that way. But I don’t do everything she does.
Meanwhile I’ve abandoned Concourse Bar (lingerie waitress happy-hour night erk!) and set up shop in a window of the Occidental on York St.
@fabicus My idiosynchronicity threshold is pretty high… ;) All hail Eris!
I might pop down to the Concourse Bar for an ale before heading home. Stand by.
Official “Cnut of the Week” nomination page now live at http://is.gd/5coD … usual rules. Who’s futilely resisting the tide of change?
@fabicus I do like the idea of nominating an entire airline, yes. Qantas is on the list. Will they make my idiosyncratic shortlist though?
“ACMA to pilot cybersafety program for primary and secondary level educators” http://is.gd/5cmL
Hmmm… “Stilgherrian Live” starts (allegedly) in under 4 hours and I’ve done zero prep. What else is new? “Cnut of the Week” nominations?
@furiousennui Nice to see you exploring the Twitterworld, my friend. It can be confusing. Beware of strange people.
Sitting for a moment in that park opposite Wynyard Station, watching everyone rushing to… where? Why hurry? It’s a beautiful evening!
@stokely Didn’t realise that you’d, um, been downsized from Crikey. Good luck with whatever’s next!
Returning southerly from Mosman. Missions mostly accomplished.
@trib Keane re “Conroy a fearless combatant in the war against free speech” http://is.gd/5blg and in Crikey’s email edition (story 13).
@coljac @trib @earleyedition Thanks to you and others for compliments re today’s Crikey piece. Bernard Keane’s is awesome also worth a read.
@jdub Heh! Well I pimp other Crikey stories hoping that if the audience goes up they might be able to afford to pay me more / more often.
Is it poor form to vote up my own story in Crikey? ;)
@stokely Plus I’m very happy to get “Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall” meme out there. ;)
@stokely Well now that Bernard Keane DID cover the story, wow, did he out the boot in! It’s a fine piece!
@Tuna I agree that the story would get “more debate” if it wasn’t behind the paywall, but I don’t choose which stories Crikey opens up. ;)
I’ll also rant about this on “Stilgherrian Live” tonight at 9.30pm Sydney time. More about that later.
If you’re not a Crikey subscriber then you can do a 3-week free trial. I’ll do a public version of my piece tomorrow.
Me in Crikey: “Conroy thoroughly tangled in his own Rabbit-Proof Firewall” (behind paywall) http://is.gd/5blq
Bernard Keane in Crikey: “Conroy a fearless combatant in the war against free speech” (behind paywall) http://is.gd/5blg
@awrd Thanks to you too for heads-up re “The Media Report” transcript. Missed you in the cacophony.
At the Mosman client’s office, trying to figure out why the backups refuse to run. Maybe if I kick something it’ll help.
Oops! Audio AND transcript of ABC’s “The Media Report” on “The Great Firewall of Australia” now online. http://is.gd/5aYv Ta, @michaelmeloni
Wotnews (formerly Plugger) searches http://is.gd/53MA (censorship) and http://is.gd/53MK (filtering) yielding lots now!
Separate audio file of ABC’s “The Media Report” on “The Great Firewall of Australia” now online. http://is.gd/5aYv Transcript tomorrow.
@fumpT In this instance I was referring to the “Australian Christian Lobby”. http://is.gd/50d5
Crikey article written! Theyll also have a LONG piece putting it right up Senator Conroy re Internet “filtering”. It’ll go live around 2pm.
@RozP Sorry, yes, quite correct. “Can haz new planit” might even be the correct form.
Fri plan: Darlinghurst almost all day, personal stuff first then a client’s office. 36C in Sydney? In October FFS! Can has new planet?
Another spray from me about Senator Conroy & censorship. http://is.gd/5gA1 Includes Mark Newton’s clear bullet-points for Conroy to address.
@funkycoda will annoy me again if I don’t pimp BarCampSydney on Sunday 15 November. http://barcampsydney.org There ya go.
@michaelmeloni Thanks for calling in to “Stilgherrian Live” last night. Recorded version is at http://is.gd/5dtC
New Scientist’s (brief) review of “Born Digital” by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser http://tinyurl.com/5az9c7
Emerges. Not enough sleep, but appointments in Darlinghurst from 0930. Personal then client’s premises all day. Where’s them alkaloids?
Wow. Some time tomorrow I’ll clock 11,000 tweets. And 10,000 wasn’t so long ago. That really does mean it’s time for bed. [exit]
“Stilgherrian Live” episode 32 is online for those who missed it at http://is.gd/5dtC though the LIVE experience is the way to go.
“Stilgherrian Live”is about to start at http://stilgherrian.com/… or over on Ustream.tv. The minions in the chat can advise further.
15 minutes until showtime! “Stilgherrian Live” will be at http://stilgherrian.com/… and the plinkies will start in 5 minutes or so.
Ok, heads down as I frantically prepare for the program and there is no fucking paper left for the printer shit.
@JonoH Aircon! Why didn’t I think of that? FUCK THE GODDAM PLANET! I WANT COOL AIR, AND I WANT IT NOW!
Home. Less than an hour until “Stilgherrian Live” is due to start. I’ve done no prep, I haven’t eaten and… humidity? Sweating like a pig!
Oops. Serious upfuckage. Second battery has not been charged! 11 mins left. This one 14. Good thing I just departed Redfern, homeward bound.
Hmmm… 20 min of battery life left on battery A. I need a whole battery to do a “Stilgherrian Live so I think I might just head home.
ZDNet Aust: “ISP-level content filtering won’t work”. http://is.gd/5cCP Telstra points out “legal implications”. Conroy is so pwn3d!
Indeed, is there a spot in the CBD which will be open through to 2230 or 2300? With electricity, light and alcohol? And food. I need food.
@limburger2001 … but maybe I can find a quiet spot with a power outlet to prepare? Suggestions anyway? Currently at Wynyard.
@limburger2001 I’m not sure whether I’ll broadcast from home or out. I haven’t prepared graphics etc, battery life fades, so maybe home…
Just finding Mark Newton’s own article on all this at “Online Opinion”. Sweet. http://is.gd/5cFj
@erkpod You cannot fool me! The trains around the loopy bits only stop at 9.30pm, and then only bits of them. Or are they ALL cactus?
I was thinking I really should prepare for “Stilgherrian Live” rather than drinking beer at a CBD pub, but then I realised…
Weird. Wotnews has my “Rabbit-Proof Firewall” Crikey article timestamped 10am. http://is.gd/5cCT But I only finished writing it at 1150.
@michaelmeloni The more I read that AWO article http://is.gd/5cw1 the more I wonder if they’ve thought this through at all.
@monkeytypist OH NOES! THE WORLD IS ROUND AND PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TIMES! HOW WILL WE COPE?!??!?!?!!
@erkpod Yes do only try to watch if you’re waiting at Lidcombe. I’d prefer you NOT to be watching TV while driving a train. So would others.
@cait The AWO is certainly looking a strong contender for the Cnutish shortlist. Hypocrites that they are. Well, that article anyway.
I might nominate the US government as “Cnut”. I mean, who the fuck is stupid enough to schedule an election on Melbourne Cup Day?
@garthk Yes, you did mention @matthewlandauer’s shock at seeing lingerie. He needs to get out more.
@erkpod “Is Stil Live and Confused mobile friendly for my N95?” No idea. Ustream.tv runs in Flash. Does an N95 do Flash?
LOL! Ta @wolfcat! “Australian Women Online” (who?) want “rational debate” on censorship. http://is.gd/5cw1 Talk only rhetoric, comments off.
@SilkCharm Isn’t the whole concept of a “social media agency” an oxymoon? “We will hire people to be us.” Bah! Be yourself yourself!
RT @jpoh: “Sad at the state of the Australian currency, things from the States cost nearly double now.” So buy elsewhere / don’t consume.
@bigmac If you have a blog/website, put your letter to your MP on line as well. The more the betterer.
Um, wherever we are, anyway, we can do full-text searches of a lot of cool shit. I need to be a student, obviously!
Oh. I have just discovered that @ApostrophePong has full access to Dow Jones Factiva thru UNSW library, remotely, from the… not the pub…
@docbaty Indeed, no secret to me. Your last 4 tweets are, in a nutshell, the argument against Internet filtering. :)
@simontsmall I use Basecamp for all client project management, and have done so for a couple of years. I works for me. YMMV.
@trib Oh I thoughly agree that a group sharing Basecamp/Highrise has got legs! :) http://is.gd/550e
RT @viveka: ACM has a go at the US Copyright Filter - good technical points for #nocleanfeed http://bit.ly/acmfilter
@trib If it’s good enough for UKUSA it’s good enough for us.
@trib I’ve always thought that contractors with similar worldviews could share Basecamp/Highrise as an “intelligence-sharing agreement”.
Another nice letter-to-my-MP about Internet censorship. Thank you, Simon Rumble! (He’s a fine alpha geek.) http://is.gd/54GD
@DenubisX Whereas Basecamp is about putting all project comms into one place accessible by all. Anti-silo, anti-hierarchy.
@DenubisX Funnelling comms”: Many corporates want to funnel all comms with an outsourced developer thru one person. Result: mistranslation.
@docbaty If you think the ACMA complaint rates are low, try this Bayesian analysis of Internet filters’ effectiveness! http://is.gd/1feQ
@davemonek @trib I will add “Basecamp FTW!” for project communication. Though the hard part is getting clients to stp funneling comms.
@Tarale No, I’ve no idea how to teach computer basics. I’m not a teacher. Don’t we have people for this? (I know that’s your question.)
@Tarale You’re not telling me anything new here! ;) http://is.gd/54oc
@Tarale This is @willhughes’ point. WEA doesn’t each “computer-based management tools” but “how to operate Excel 2003”.
@Tarale Yep, and now add in laptops whre a tap = click, or on OS X where double-finger drag = scroll or something else. It’s changing FAST!
@jg_rat “If anyone wants ten hottehz sex wiv online media d00d with handlebar moustache, DM @jg_rat pls kthxbai.” Like that?
@Tarale: “Do basic skills like “click and drag” go out of date?” Yes, they do. Or they change. Explain when to click vs double-click for me.
RT @willhughes: @stilgherrian For IT related stuff, anyway. It’s not really general skills either - more around a specific application.
RT @willhughes: @stilgherrian WEA amongst others has adult-ed. It’s woefully inadequate and out of date though.
RT @Tarale: “Do any SA schools offer basic computer training (minimise, maximise, click, drag, right-click, etc) for adults?” Or NSW?
RT @neerav: Sydney University study shows Australia has some of worst working hours in developed world http://snurl.com/4sqpu
@ApostrophePong and me are about to have lunch at The Duke, Enmore Rd, before I go to Darlinghurst.
@jg_rat Yes, it looks a LOT better when you’re rewteeting me than pimping your own Courier Mail stories. ;) Ah, social media!
@jendudley wrote “Adult Australians don’t need a net nanny” http://is.gd/53Z9 Nice one!
Wed (remainder) plan: Put on pants; lunch; PM Darlinghurst client to cover backlog of sysadmin; evening writing / reading / slothing.
RT @middleclassgirl: @stilgherrian You are the only person, to me, who uses the word cunt effectively. [wow! thank you!]
You can track censorship news on Wotnews (formerly Plugger) with http://is.gd/53MA (censorship) and http://is.gd/53MK (filtering).
RT @monkeytypist: RT @efa_oz: Dale [Clapperton from EFA] on Sunrise: http://tinyurl.com/6s3fds. Well done, top, interview. #nocleanfeed.
RT @mspecht: Over 389 comments on the http://news.com.au story, most against the filter http://tinyurl.com/5kknfa
Official Aust govt statistics for complains relating to online content. http://is.gd/53Jh
“Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’” http://is.gd/53Ba Comments thread is open.
RT @wolfcat: Listen to @mpesce on Media Report… http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ in 5 min re Internet censorship.
I went to a Protestant private school so Jesus didn’t figure highly. It was more about football and psychological bullying of the weak.
@barrysaunders “I believe St Peter founded the church. Jesus was quite against the institutionalisation of religion.” You’re probably right.
@WarWraith Indeed, I never could understand how “hate-mongering right-wing extremists” (well put!) emerge from Jesus’ teaching. Opposite!
RT @PeterBlackQUT: New blog post… Op-ed piece on internet filtering http://tinyurl.com/5knxzr Nice work, Peter.
@WarWraith Thanks for that. I’m sick of “the” Christian viewpoint coming from a tiny part of the broad church that Jesus bloke founded.
RT @WarWraith: A “Christian” response to why the filter is bad mojo… this lady may have covered it: http://tinyurl.com/6ohj9z
Marcus Westbury’s Renew Newcastle project has issued a Call for Proposals from artists. Empty shopfronts to be had! http://is.gd/59ku
@ApostrophePong Not only is the smell of rain beautiful, but the relaxed call of currawongs. Thankfully the heavy jets haven’t started yet.
@SnarkyPlatypus The woods & meadows combo of central Germany is for driving the tanks through, don’t you know ANY history?
@lebard Haven’t read “Scattered: The inside story of Ice in Aust”. From blurb at http://is.gd/59dK it’s tabloid drug porn? http://is.gd/59en
(To all the new followers, I’ve been too workwhelmed to look at you lately, sorry. I do see all @replies though.)
Emerges. Following 520. 700 followers. 10,900 updates. NIce round numbers! This is 10,901, so it’s ruined already.
Srsly, sleep time for me or my world will implode. Well, implode more than it already is. Ciao all. [exit]
RT @lebard: “Dean Karnazes trained himself to sleep 4 hours a night. And he runs a marathon a day.” So? Couple grams of meth, sleep 4h/week!
@barrysaunders @ryancross Alas, I have no energy left for storytelling… which may be a Good Thing. Rain check?
I can tell everyone a bedtime story if you like? Um, no? What do you mean, that doesn’t seem a good idea?
@SilkCharm You will have to ask MIstress @kcarruthers about teh secretz, I am but her lowly sock puppet. (But by all means keep tickling.)
@SilkCharm There ARE secret societies on Twitter. We just haven’t told YOU about them.
@paullyoung ROFL! No, I am not at the pub. I’m at home.
RT @BBCWorld: Satellite tags unlock journey of juvenile salmon. http://tinyurl.com/6kafy9 What mystery? Spawn, grow, markets, grill, plate.
Hmmm… Every other mammal in this room is either asleep or licking its own arse.
I should point out that I have never had sex with Michelle Grattan though. Not that I recall, anyway.
@SilkCharm Indeed. And here’s a hint: have you ever seen Paul Keating and me in the same room? SPOOKY!
@SilkCharm There are many similarities between me and Paul Keating… charm, tolerance for those of lesser intelligence, sexual prowess…
@SilkCharm What’s the coolest thing to do in Singapore? Catch the next flight to Bangkok.
@Nickhodge 1. I work at home too. 2. Never worked for Apple or Google (but did give IBM a hand once). 3. Kittehs not an excuse. 4. Conroy.
@Nickhodge Gay mooses lying in the clouds WHAT Have you guys been drinking that stuff they dole ut in the canteens at Apple and Google?
Wow http://news.com.au’s “Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’” http://is.gd/53Ba now has more than 660 comments!
@facibus But we INVENTED the iPhone for restaurant-finder apps. Just like we created the PC for filing our recipes. And we all do, yeah?
Have just seen @ApostrophePong’s latest video piece and I am almost in tears. Now we need to figure out when people will see it.
@4fthawaiian And now you know where 60GB/month lives. ;)
@4fthawaiian Hate to say it, but the answer is just to pay for more bandwidth up front. Sure, Aust’s rates suck in every orifice, but…
@4fthawaiian You whinge about being “shaped”, but you chose your broadband plan… who are you whingeing to, exactly?
@trib @viveka Basecamp is for projects. Highrise is for coordinating sales/CRM, which I find isn’t the core of my interest. Different tools.
@fumpT Yes, @trib’s metaphor of a river is good. And with tools like TweetDeck you can create a separate, slower-moving stream of friends.
ACMA annual report http://is.gd/55pa has “social media” as 5th of 6 “emerging trends” but only 1 mention that isn’t “risks” / “cybersafety”.
ACMA Annual Report online. http://is.gd/55pa Apparently things are changing fast, with “converged devices” and something called “VoiP”? Wow.
And http://blomedry.com/ is not what I thought it would be. Disappointed.
(Note, I do not want “authorised logo-equipped Nokia centre”, I want a bloke who knows how to fix broken phones.)
Dear Twitterverse, anyone know a good Sydney walk-in hole-in-the-wall Nokia phone repair place?
@tathamoddie Maybe 4.0 is OK if (1) you do it in Roman numerals and (2) you’re hot enough.
How US voting machines (don’t) work. An illuminating video. http://is.gd/55gq
@jdub [smirks] Yes, the whole idea of the marketing industry calling its Next Big Thing “Marketing 2.0” is the FAIL of a corrupt industry!
(I am sorry for my inaccurate typing but my emotions are overcoming me.)
@jdub Heh! I thinking numbering versions of software is OK. But <abstract concept> 2.0 is bullshit from beginning to end. Dumb buzzword.
I think that the next person who tags “2.0” or “3.0” onto ANYTHING to attempt some faux-coolness with get a bullet in the head. BE ORIGINAL!
@SilkCharm Don’t bait me, Miss. You know as well as I do that FOAD = Fuck Off And Die. :P
If you need someone else to SHOW you how to speak with your own voice, then you’re so far down the sock puppet hole then… [shakes head]
@SilkCharm And if you CAN’T be yourself yourself, stop being such a slimy lizard and FOAD. The world can live without you.
OK, mobile… Walk / train / cab / something to Mosman, all the while writing something about Conroy’s efforts on “Media Report”. [waves]
I’m starting to realise not everyone is up to speed on how “frames” work in context of politics. I’d better go teach some cows to dance. ;)
@DCouch ANY framing in terms of cleanliness of any kind, +ve or -ve, reinforces govt’s frame.
@DCouch “Pure” won’t work either. Govt has already framed it as “Internet = dirty, needs filtering”. Can has completely different frame.