You know your former newspaper company has made an impact when its demise gets discussed by an academic from the University of Texas. Here’s the abstract, which leads to the full PDF report (which you have to pay for). I’m very tempted to buy this. Technorati Tags: Project Eyeball, newspapers, newmedia, businessmodels
Month: December 2006
An earthquake in Taiwan reminded us of how fragile we are. Today most international websites were inaccessible because internet cables under the sea were disrupted. I’m even considering myself lucky that somehow I managed to access my website and post this at home. I’m writing this quickly in case we get cut off again. Makes …
Have you Christians ever realised that Christmas is actually a big birthday celebration? It’s the time we celebrate God’s birthday in his earthly form. Nobody really mentioned that to me over the past few weeks but suddenly the simplicity of it all, just struck me. In his sermon this morning, my Vicar warned us not …
powered by ODEO Listen to this podcast episode of me talking about my latest gadget acquisition, XTreme Mac’s Micromemo for 5th generation iPods. This episode was recorded, naturally, on the Micromemo, then downloaded to my Mac and converted to mp3 (128kbps). Apart from compression, no editing was done, so please excuse my ‘ums’ as it …
This morning I woke up, realised I may have overslept, lunged towards my alarm clock to check the time, and was smartly reminded of the presence of the solid, sharp wooden corner of my bedside shelf. The welt just above my right eyebrow was a little red but otherwise looked fine in my bathroom mirror. …
Vantan.org has been added to the links list of a new Second Life blog which happens to be in Italian!* Thanks! This blog has also been linked on Honeyfly, which is another geek-music-Mac blog. I feel like we’re relatives. The first Singapore Second Life meetup was blogged about in Global Voices last month. Thanks Preetam! …
A Feminist blog draws attention to the presence of role-playing rape services which can be procured in Second Life: …while the idea of rape fantasies in general is certainly disturbing to me, I’m even more troubled that it’s even offered by Second Life as an option, as if this is one of a range of …
This fast-rising US Senator has a podcast on his Senate website. Worth checking out, just to see if he’s Presidential quality. I never forgot his moving speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, which is one of my all-time favourites. (Youtube link, text transcript) Technorati Tags: Obama, video podcasts
When can music get you all hot and bothered? When you’re a musician who’s trying to re-design a home studio. I spent the last hour crawling under my computer table, trying to dislodge some wooden panels which are preventing me from accessing the power point on my wall. In vain. It’s a long story. How …
Caught jazz pianist Hiromi live in concert just now. It was a powerful performance all the way. Decisive and accurate keystrokes peppered with humour and always a smile. However, the concert began with a big hiccup – there was a sound problem for the bassist. We waited for a couple of minutes while a technician …