Category: What I Think

Link: Art obscenity charges – Arts – Entertainment – smh.com.au.

We have come a long way from the times when Johannes Vermeer’s ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’ was considered pornography.
The argument that Bill Henson’s recent work is pornographic is impossible to comment on until I see the work and can make an informed opinion. That it true for everyone. Most people commenting on the work, including the Prime Minister, haven’t seen the work, but still fell they are able to comment.

I dare say in 10 years time, the AGNSW will buy one of these pieces and no one will bat an eyelid.

I do however wish I had a Henson right now; the media circus following this recent exhibition is driving prices though the roof.

And my cynical side thinks that may have been the plan all along.

Link: The 2008 Telstra Business Women’s Awards – smh.com.au.

Check out the headline to this ad, in fact the whole communication strategy. My first thought; lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

I hate the design of this blog (if you’re here in the future, it’s the red version with a butterfly. A freaking butterfly – what was I thinking). There is not a thing I like looking at here.

Hardly the stuff to keep Jobs et al awake at night. This is more a comment on the media than anything and journalist’s desperate attempts to et readers to click on their stories. Not even the company who makes this phone says it is an iPhone killer. No company would say that except Microsoft when they launched the Zune. Come on, you remember Xmas 06 when the Zune hit the streets. Or more accurately fell from a large building onto the street and died a very embarrassing death. So the headline for that story should have been “How the iPhone Killer Died.”

Tip: To make an iPhone killer your device has to be a) a phone and b) able to sync with iTunes to get iTunes purchased product. Without these two feature what you’ve got is as interesting as a chew toy.

Link: HTC’s iPhone killer is a real gem – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au.

Link: Australia 2020 – www.australia2020.gov.au.

So Prime Minister Rudd has announced the list of 1000 Australians to join him for the 2020 Summit on April 19 and 20, 2008. The first that strikes me is the list is only 887. What’s up K.Rudd; couldn’t find another 117 mates to fill out the ten tons?

And there lies the biggest problem. Far from this being a summit to consider Australia’s future, the 2020 gabfest is nothing more than a big thank you to supporters of the government during the Nov 07 election, with a few intellectual types thrown in to make the show look good.

Where are the big thinkers? There’s not a single person on this list that could hold their own at a TED Conference. And that’s what Australia should be aiming for.

But it’s an even better ad for why advertising is the best way for you to lose money. Imagine your product is the subject of this ad, and the basketball is the crazy mixed up world of marketing.

Crap photo but an absolute bargain.

Link: Scarlett Johansson’s $42,000 date – Film – Entertainment – smh.com.au.

Link: Apple – MacBook Pro.

New MacBookPros and MacBooks released earlier today. Exxxxcellent!

This is an extract from the SMH Tech Section 26th Feb 2008

“Australia Post executive and auDA board member Joshua Rowe agrees with Mr Delzoppo.

Mr Tonkin also cautions that the prices reported for domain name sales out of the US are often prices that include the website built on that name.”
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Right then. I have to things to say here. Firstly, Joshua Rowe is an idiot and proves that any one working for Australia Post knows nothing about the internet. Domains names are not like property and do not bring traffic. Domain names are your electronic brand on the internet. If a website owner is good enough at web marketing and search engine optimisation then traffic will come. If this wasn’t the case we would all go to amazon.com to find out about the biggest river in South America!

Fool #2. MelbourneIT’s Mr Bruce Tonkin believes .com.au domains are worth just 1/100th the value of a .com name. Well if that’s true you fucking thieving bastard, why does MelboureIT charge $70/per year (pro rata, because you can only by in 2 year blocks) when a .com domain is US$9.95 from someone like godaddy.com? Worth 1/100th. Costs 7 times more.

Thieves and idiots. On the internet they can be found everywhere.