Author Archives: Dean

Gov Poo Point Oh

Last week Senator Xenophon raised an idea up the flagpole. Prime Minister Rudd looked up and smiled, but didn’t go so far as to salute. Xenophon’s proposal was to establish an ombudsman to lobby social networks in cases of public offence or outrage.
The EFA advised the government to ignore the trolls. Comments [...]

See Into the Shadows

Tonight the NFSA’s Arc cinema held their second recent screening of Into the Shadows, a passion project by local writer/director Andrew Scarano. Inspired by the closure of Canberra’s Electric Shadows cinemas, the doco explores how the Australian film industry came to be in the chronically ill state it’s in and what might break it [...]

R.C. Material

HT to @jimboot

Broadcasting BarCamp Canberra 2010

Yesterday saw the third BarCamp Canberra return to the ANU for a day of geekery and thought-provoking discussions. I didn’t present anything this year; I contributed by pointing a camera at the stage in room 101 and streaming the presentations and discussions for those who couldn’t make it.

Watch live streaming video from barcampcanberra at [...]

Haiku for Caronne

Management buzzwords.
Bullshit bingo today’s game.
In the end, all lose.