Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic reckons our endless surfing of the internet is making it harder for us to concentrate on one thing for any length of time. I know cos I’ve read bits about it on two other blogs. Read more »
Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic reckons our endless surfing of the internet is making it harder for us to concentrate on one thing for any length of time. I know cos I’ve read bits about it on two other blogs. Read more »
Astute readers will have noticed a complete inability to access this blog for the last three weeks. The site got hit by a particularly virulent attack of spam which managed to get into many my old and draft entries. I was planning to reformat it for when I finished in the Senate on June 30, so I took the opportunity while it was offline getting all the spam cleaned out to bring forward some of the redesigning. All of this meant it was offline for longer than I’d hoped, and also that it has come back before the redesign and fixing of old entries has been completed. Read more »
On June 25, during my final sitting week in Parliament, I’ll be speaking at a Politics & Technology conference organised by Microsoft. You can see all the speakers and panellists at this link. The keynote speaker will be US political writer, Matt Bai. Read more »
I participated in a panel of speakers at the Microsoft Forum on Politics & Technology earlier this week, along with Antony Green, Joe Hockey, Kate Lundy and Matt Bai. It was an interesting discussion, although I did get a bit irritated that the debate seemed to keep turning inwards into a discussion about how politicians can more cleverly use internet technology to win votes, rather than examining how technology can be used to empower the community to better influence political debate (and thus politicians). Read more »
On June 25, during my final sitting week in Parliament, I’ll be speaking at a Politics & Technology conference organised by Microsoft. You can see all the speakers and panellists at this link. The keynote speaker will be US political writer, Matt Bai. Read more »
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