I don;t care what flavour your politics is or if you still have a hangover from last Saturday or are in therapy from the result, the best news to come from the election is this; Coonan has gone as the Minister for Communications – probably the greatest oxymoron since military intelligence.

The man in the hot seat now is Senator Stephen Conroy. I wish Senator Conroy well as he rolls out PM Elect Ruud’s promise if better broadband delivery around Australia and have a simple message for him: DO NOT FUCK IT UP!

Thanx Steve.

So glad I put off the purchase of an iPhone. Sometime next year we will have a proper version of the unit in Australia that will use 3G. I just hope our telcos haven’t moved to 4G by then.

Link: AT&T’s Stephenson: 3G iPhone – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

Once again the rulers of the free-to-air networks see pending doom as technology delivers them another massive left hook. Now they want PVR manufacturers to add fast forward speed limiters to their boxes. This means if a manufacturer produces a device with a 30 sec skip button, or allows FF greater than x60.

All this really means is if yo do by a PVR you will need a small chid to help with the hacking.

I am again amazed by the lack of foresight of the Free TV Australia (still the most incorrect term for any organisation in the world) – it’s over boys. Sell your studios and put your cameras on eBay. You’ve lost.

Link: Networks want to nobble ad-skipping – Technology – smh.com.au.

This is an interesting interview with a guy who has given up everything (all his directorships, anyway) to campaign against Howard in his seat of Bennelong.
His idea is simple; Howard has put the environment last for 11 and a half years, now put Howard last next Saturday. He is not advocating any party, he isn’t even against the Liberal party, just Howard. Will be interesting to see if he makes any impact.

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