Reading a new book … Z
Kate Carruthers Am reading a new book by a first time fiction author, it is called “Z” by Jonar Nader and it has some really interesting ideas. He has written some other…
Cool dog monks
In my web travels I came across a monastery with monks that train and raise dogs. On their website they articulate some of joy and wisdom of having a close…
Transcripts: Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference
Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it’s a blog)…
How Net Gen people think and learn
As always Belinda from journoz: Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists provides some good resources, this one is worth a look … The Net Generation’s “aptitudes, attitudes, expectations,…
IWD: International Women’s Day & the IT industry
What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our…
Daily Kos: I’m a Republican: Fuck you
There is a an interesting take on US politics on a site (of the Democratic persuasion one might imagine 😉 It seems the Democrats are so busy being cross that…
First education in Feminism
This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia’s *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the ‘old fashioned’ philosophers (called “Trad…
Alleged quote by Churchill: on being a socialist or conservative
Someone recently quoted Winston Churchill as saying “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative…
Some thoughts of Ben Franklin (1790)
I have been reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and other writings (ISBN: 0140390529) and his writings do stand well the test of time, as well as being quite entertaining to read.…
Article: Businesses don’t have social responsibilities; people do
This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising…