This popped into my inbox about an hour ago from the CIS. I suggest you register your interest early as I reckon tickets will sell bloody quick. I will be going to the Perth lunch as a birthday present to myself. Anyone else going?
PJ O’Rourke speaks at the 25th Annual John Bonython Lecture and CIS Annual Dinner
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, Sydney
Monday, 8 December 2008, Auckland Read more »
I’m reading one of the better Web 2.0 books around instructively and amusingly called Here comes everybody which Peter Gallagher told me today came from Finnigan’s Wake. I thought I was terribly clever when I discovered this book on the net within a day or so of it having been published and had it shipped here by Amazon. And then I saw the paperback sitting smiling back at me at the ‘new bestsellers’ part of Readings Bookshop. So no brownie points for me. Read more »
Quoth Christopher Pyne in an interview on ABC Radio this morning:
There are a thousand ideas, there are 660 minutes of discussion on the summit program, which means for every idea there are 39.6 seconds put aside for discussing that particular idea.
So far this claim has been repeated by the ABC and others, without contention, for about 4 hours. It’s a great soundbite.
But 39.6 seconds of contemplation will show that Pyne’s maths is faulty. It runs thus: Read more »
BBC TV screened a debate yesterday on the future of old and new media. Panellists included Google founder Sergey Brin and Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. I’ll certainly be watching when the streaming video becomes available in the next day or two. Read more »
Paradox one Read more »
And, in case you’re intersted, the book program is broadcasting from the Clunes Booktown, some festival in which Clunes - which is near Ballarat - invites booksellers to have a big book sale in Clunes - this Read more »
Pity the poor working journo!
Journalists face tough deadlines. Sitting in front of a screen, they need to produce thousands of words to print or read out every day, only a fraction of which might actually make it to print or get on the air. Then people have the terrible rudeness to push numbers in front of people who are, after all, professional wordsmiths.
Is it any wonder that they engage in a little corner-cutting here and there? Read more »
So yesterday I lost my temper at a monumentally silly bit of policy making on-the-run by the new ALP government. After that tantrum I learnt that there was both more — and less — than met the eye.
To start with, let’s review what Julia Gillard said yesterday to start the whole shitstorm: Read more »
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Today’s Herald reports that the NSW Treasury has done its own estimates of the costs of achieving various targets for carbon emissions. Read more »
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