Damn, Jonathan plays fine radio. He just played that Henry Rollins piece about Boris who wrote a letter to him with the clas­sic sen­tence “On two con­cert, I’m shootive col­lect­ive photo but small, fat, bald headed tech­no­lo­gist be insane”. I just had to go search­ing for…

Cre­at­ive Com­mons chair and all-round inter­est­ing guy Lawrence Lessig will be giving a lec­ture at Mel­bourne Town Hall as part of the Alfred Deakin Lec­tures. It’s free but you have to book here. When: Sunday, May 8, 12pm Where: Mel­bourne Town Hall I’m all about the…

Trans­mis­sion is a monthly gath­er­ing of video act­iv­ists to swap, exchange and share their work. It’s an oppor­tun­ity to show your cre­ations, meet up with people work­ing on sim­ilar pro­jects and spark col­lab­or­a­tions. Whether it’s doc­u­ment­ary or exper­i­mental, we want to…

Mark Pesce, all-round genius and cur­rently the head of the digital media area at the Aus­tralian Film, Tele­vi­sion and Radio School, will be giving a guest lec­ture at Mel­bourne Uni on Monday, May 9 at midday in the Alan Gil­bert build­ing, lec­ture hall 4. While this is…

I meant to do mark­ing work today and then hang out with Tien, but he can­celled and then I figured since I had the after­noon free I may as well head off early to go on a junket to Mt Buller. It’s a good thing it worked out that way because I didn’t real­ise quite how…

So, here I am writ­ing my lec­ture for tomor­row’s class. It’s on intel­lec­tual prop­erty and syn­dic­a­tion, so of course I’m push­ing funky stuff like Cre­at­ive Com­mons but I also have to cover the mundane detail. So, I’m research­ing. I headed on over to the Gov­ern­ment’s IP…

Call­ing all casual, flex­ible, temp, con­tract and part-time work­ers, those bored in the dole queues or res­ist­ing mono­tony in McJobs. And any­body else con­cerned with the polit­ical con­di­tions of employ­ment. May Day (May 1) is tra­di­tion­ally a day to deal with labour…

So, it all star­ted on Friday, I think, a con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel-of-the-West­ern-Shores (as opposed to subtle_eye) about friend­ship and where we stood in each oth­er’s lives. We expan­ded on that on Sat­urday morn­ing as I walked from brunch in Surry Hills with…

Oh yeah, forgot to men­tion, what with being laptop­less for a while: I’m head­ing for Sydney, in about an hour. Be in New­town having brunch by about 11 I hope. And I’ll be at Gur­lesque tomor­row night. Pas­sover dinner tonight with folks, but would be up for going out…