Category Archives: tech

Clay Shirky — Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Bryn

This my SOPA post. In this 14 min TED talk Clay Shirky fantastically explains why SOPA is a BAD IDEA. SOPA is a, proposed, US law and I am an Australian, but I felt I should make a post about … Continue reading →

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Queensland Floods and the Web

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Bryn

Floods have devastated Queensland and other parts of Australia. The area underwater is greater than France and Germany. At times like these I am always amazed at the great and positive ways how Web 2.0 technologies are used; whether social … Continue reading →

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Contemporary and war time photos of St Petersburg merged

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Bryn

via Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII. Sergei Larenkov’s images. Very powerful and amazing images.

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Broadband for Arnhem Land

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Bryn

From the ABC’s 7:30 report, a good news story about the Broadband Revolution coming to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. A fibre optic cable has be laid into Arnhem Land. This is great story in so many ways: The … Continue reading →

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ABC (au) Radio National launches Pool

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Bryn

via Boing Boing ABC Radio National has launched Pool: It’s a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers – upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It’s a collaborative space where audiences … Continue reading →

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Radiohead’s "House of Cards" video made without cameras

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Bryn

I am a big fan of Radiohead, their album In Rainbows and cool uses of technology, so this is the kind of think I like. The video for “House of Cards” from In Rainbows was not shot with cameras in … Continue reading →

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