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Thank you Larry, Thank you Matt, Thank you Google

Bryn — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:18:34 +0000

This is kind of a follow up to my 2007 post, Thank You Cory, Thank You Google. Recently Larry Lessig spoke to Google employees as part of their AtGoogleTalks. He spoke about his recent book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It. I think the title is self explanatory as to the topic of Lessig’s talk.

Thank you Google, for giving Larry the opportunity to talk to the Googlers, for giving the Google a change to hear Larry Lessig and for sharing his talk with the rest of the internet.

I discovered the talk online via Matt Cutts’ blog, so Thank you Matt for you part in introducing Larry at Google and for spreading the video of the talk across the web.

Watching the talk I felt somewhat proud to be Australian, particularly the first question of the audience. In Australia we are lucky enough to have parenteral voting systems, where I can vote for the candidate who I most agree with without the possibility that my vote will be “wasted”. The technical aspects of voting systems, like this, are often something that interest geeks.

Google's Photovoltaic System

Bryn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:13:33 +0000

This is kind of a follow up to my previous post on Green Computing. IT Conversations has posted a talk by Anthony Ravitz, Project Coordinator, Real Estate & Workplace Services, Google, about Google’s installation of photovoltaic cells on the roof of the Googleplex. Google’s significant size and wealth would allow them to be a leader and implement this type of project based purely environmental/ethical grounds, in the near future I hope to see many organisation around the world implementing similar projects and environmental, ethical and economic grounds.

Google celebrates Australia Day

Bryn — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:37:01 +0000

Today is Australia Day and as is often the case on days of significances, Google (AU) has a special header for the day.

This is the result of Doodle 4 Google My Australia a competition for school students.

ABC (au) uses Google Earth to show APEC Exclusion Zone

Bryn — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:42:17 +0000

ABC (Australia) is using Google Earth and Maps to show the APEC Exclusion Zone. The Australian national broadcaster is offering a kmz file showing the CBD Exclusion Zone on their web site.

http://abc.net.au/kmz/apec.kmz

The same information is available using Google Map on their web site (although not in the 3D of Google Earth)

What a great use of Web 2.0 technologies.

Thank You Cory, Thank You Google

Bryn — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:55:45 +0000

While watching Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow I thought Thank You Cory, Thank You Google. While I had heard the majority of his thesis before, Thank You Cory for talking about these issues and fighting for our rights.

Thank You Google:

for inviting people like Cory Doctorow to talk to your employees, you are such a powerful part of the internet, it’s great that your employees are being exposed to ideas such as those of Doctorow’s.
for releasing this video on to the web for others to be exposed to.
for allowing and then releasing to the internet, views that are to some what critical of you.