Posts by Sacha
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So each mum and dad investor has to cross a lawyer's palm with sliver to get advice and then take the chance that the company directors haven't hidden their ill-gotten gains somewhere unreachable? Gee, I wonder why people invest in houses rather than our wild west markets.
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which tells you all you need to know about the maturity and mentality of its parents
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I love being able to easily find gems like this recent conversation between two cutting edge thinkers, Daniel Pink and Clay Shirky, about how the internet can transform contribution - including my own. Everyone deserves to read this one.
Shirky: Oh, that walk down memory lane is painful. Somehow, watching television became a part-time job for every citizen in the developed world. But once we stop thinking of all that time as individual minutes to be whiled away and start thinking of it as a social asset that can be harnessed, it all looks very different.
The buildup of this free time among the world’s educated population—maybe a trillion hours per year—is a new resource. It’s what I refer to as the cognitive surplus.
Pink: A surplus that post-TV media—blogs, wikis, and Twitter—can tap for other, often more valuable, uses.
Shirky: That’s what’s happening. Television was a solitary activity that crowded out other forms of social connection. But the very nature of these new technologies fosters social connection—creating, contributing, sharing. When someone buys a TV, the number of consumers goes up by one, but the number of producers stays the same. When someone buys a computer or mobile phone, the number of consumers and producers both increase by one.
This lets ordinary citizens, who’ve previously been locked out, pool their free time for activities they like and care about. So instead of that free time seeping away in front of the television set, the cognitive surplus is going to be poured into everything from goofy enterprises like lolcats, where people stick captions on cat photos, to serious political activities like Ushahidi.com, where people report human rights abuses.
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tax the hell out of sugar that way you'd hit both alcho-pop and carbonated sugar water drinks as well as a whole slew of really shitty "foods" with incredibly high levels of sugar.
Very smart idea
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Brown considers career in local body politics
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I'll go to the workstation, which is much better set up with a proper chair, desk with notes laid out, dual monitors, mice, ergonomic keyboard, headsets, quiet room, telephones, printer, servers, router, fridge, coffee, library, strong lighting.
and don't forget the kayak
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I'm wondering what the new-gen hp mini convertible tablets are like - still windoze though
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And Hadyn Jones of Consumer magazine informally likens the Kobo experience to reading on the venerable FX82 calculator. Ah, nostalgia.
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I shall pass on your descriptor
Which I absorbed by osmosis some years back, no doubt from a journo or online commenter.
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empty apartments
That picture does look strikingly similar to other parts of the cbd where rampant shoebox building at all costs was the order of the day earlier in the decade. Add some razorwire and guard towers to upper Nelson St and no one would tell the difference.