June 2009
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the music industry wants to govern your internets
I’ve been meaning to blog on this for some time now. Introduction of ISP law in Malaysia? The music industry is missing the point again (yawn..) and I have to question the wisdom of their leadership. The best way to fight piracy is to find a way of benefitting from the velocity of music online.
It’s vital to our economy that we bump up internet penetration. ISP’s need new...
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newswire 2.0
i wrote the following as an ed note for Buletin Popek.
The blogosphere is an interesting space. Those who refer to it as an alternative to mainstream media are missing the point. We are a generation rethinking information networks, creating what in a few generations will be mainstream media, itself exposed to its own challenges and limitations, only to be rethought...
April 2009
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hype machine redux
a couple weeks back i posted this on my facebok thought stream
Hardesh Singh Proton should concentrate on developing low-cost electric vehicles for the masses. Why do we keep missing opportunities?? http://tinyurl.com/b7drdb
About the same time, this story developed linking Proton with Detroit Electric. The name rang a bell, I checked my delicious tags and was lead back to a feature Wired ran...
March 2009
2 posts
R.A.H.M.A.N
Rahman
Abdul Razak
Hussein Onn
Mahathir
Abdullah
Nizar
….there is still hope.
* yes, i know it’s Mohammad Nizar. There may be one aspect to this prophecy overlooked thus far. It was after all Abdul Rahman.
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January 2009
3 posts
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What Colour is MAS?
One quick look and you’d probably think this is an AirAsia ad. Look again.
MAS banners have previously been blue-ish, as far as I recall. Will a major company with a global brand sacrifce its brand-ident to steal away customers from its competition? And how far would they go? The layout looks unmistakably AirAsia. Looks to me like a desperate attempt.
Here is an AirAsia screen...
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WatchIn an attempt to tell it from Gaza’s side, Al Jazeera has released footage shot from within Gaza under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license. Why does this matter?
From the Creative Commons blog:
In a conflict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct...
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boycott if you're stooopid
ok, im a little late getting in on this argument, but i intend to seal it ;)
boycotts dont work, we cant be so stupid to think that they do. not going to Mc’D today becuase you want them to know your stand?…well, its not like they were expecting you in the first place, were they? my, they must be so upset.
instead, go! and go with as many friends as you can. order as much as you...
December 2008
4 posts
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the end of public facebook profiles in australia
Via Reuters
The Supreme Court in Australia’s capital Canberra has ruled that Facebook is a sufficient way of serving legal documents to defendants who cannot be found.
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DiGi guerilla viral campaign?
the give away?
In fact she also changed her network from Maxis to Digi
only someone working for telco would bother with such specifics. but i may be wrong.
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Meshell Ndegeocello - Lovely lovely, from The...
November 2008
16 posts
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Rethinking physical text
Physical text is dead (as in static). Information is alive. It’s dynamic. The previous post is a piece I wrote as guest columnist for Klue. Information is constantly evolving. What bugs me about physical text is that it is one dimensional. And printing URL’s on paper doesnt work either. In most cases it is too long and looks like gibberish to be of any use to someone trying to type it into...
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5 Internet Myths (because, like you know, everyone...
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#1 – The Net is a free-space.
Hah, you’re most probably a politico blogger. Government has more control over the net than they care to understand themselves. Every little cool app that allows you to see how popular you are amongst your circle of virtual friends, exists thanks to Government legislation (ok, largely the U.S. Government, but they all the same la) to track data, its origins and its destination. The Net was built...
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#2 – We are too smart, they can’t censor the Net,...
It’s simply a question of infrastructure. The Malaysian Internet Exchange (MyIX) was built on the pretext of saving the country huge amounts of money being wasted on local traffic being routed via international exchanges. Read it another way: the government doesn’t have full control over local ISPs. Many of the privately owned ISPs establish direct connections to foreign ISPs. MyIX routes all...
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#3 – The Matrix is just a movie.
The sum of all our knowledge created and shared everyday is feeding and building the Machine. See how the Machine is Us/ing Us.
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#4 – Alternative media will kill mainstream media.
The only thing that will kill mainstream media is mainstream media itself, due to ignorance on information theory (that is, how people consume information today). And alternative media won’t deliver on its promise until we begin to understand that the internet really isn’t an alternative at all. It exists as an independent platform, requiring a unique model to thrive. Information snacking....
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#5 – The Internet will save us from all forms of...
That was the promise of the internet. The cyberpunks had a mantra: On the information highway, borders are just speed bumps. But some very powerful people would like to see it broken. Ultimately, the internet may divide us more than geographical borders do currently.
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GEW'08 Presentation File →
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Talk at GEW '08
Ill be speaking tomorrow at this event, organised by the British Council. Its billed as Happy Hours with Creative Entrepreneurs: Secrets of their Success, but I have no secrets to share ;)
I will instead be focusing more on social entrepreunership.
details here.
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hyper-capitalism
Bill Gates refers to it as creative capitalism. C.K. Prahalad calls it BOP Markets (Bottom of the Pyramid).
4 billion people live on less than $2 per day. The thinking is simply that creating products that serve the poorest people (as opposed to ignoring them since the easiest assumption is that they have no purchasing power) would over time elevate them to middle-class, and with that all the...
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October 2008
21 posts
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the giant pool of money
the absolutely brilliant this american life, produced by Chicago Public Radio, ran a podcast, back in sept, on how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis which eventually lead to the global economic downturn.
other than amazing coverage, they sure know how to produce podcasts. it’s over an hour but i couldnt stop listening.
listen
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3 things the government doesn't get about piracy
read this
1. piracy isn’t stealing. there is an economy around it. people do pay for pirated goods. the take away? there is a price point consumers are willing to settle for. there is money to be made. obviously VERY good money, going by the never declining number of pirates.
2. pirates are early innovators in the retail space. they understand how and what consumers want to buy. and they...
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i find some of the most interesting music in my...
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Watchin the future, we ought to have more ‘commercial’ works available under CC licences.
in the future, people will come to understand that IP really means Intellectual Pursuit, not Intellectual Property.
btw, i recently read Matt Mason’s The Pirate’s Dilemma. I bought the book after downloading it for free from the official website. and, watch this video. I really like the...
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globalisation is a one way street named 'america'
free trade doesn’t exist. the only thing ‘free’ is america’s ability to impose its ‘values’ freely on emerging (or ‘should-have-already-emerged-by-now’) markets.
the only thing ‘global’ is the monotony of our increasingly homogeneous society. we travel halfway around the world to find ourselves standing on the same street corners....
sex sells, but we're not dealing
im particularly proud of this latest ep on ‘the fairly current show’. there is a soul behind every face. im really glad mark and fahmi invited her on the show. this is a simple example of how technology can create value for society. firstly, the mainstream press would ignore such topics, and even if they did feature someone like nisha, she’d be painted as a social menace.
this...
we could have ruled the lunar-cafe business!
i actually honestly thought that the teh-tarik experiment was a rare display of intelligence by the malaysian government. too bad they bowed to public pressure. lost opportunity yet again. India is now in space, they will be needing their chai.
yes i am being serious. space tourism is technically a reality. everyone needs their cuppa, grounded or spaced!
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big brother UK
they gave us the IC - we perfected the art of creating a national register. then registered mobile phones. perhaps soon on to registering blogs. The UK is playing catch-up.
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones via boingboing.
barcamp berlin 3
barcamp berlin 3 was loads of fun. pictures below.
laptop+coffee+net=geekdom
