It takes a champion, best of breed poodle to make a come back from spruiking one dog's breakfast to shamelessly spruiking another ...
The pond of course loves to be innovative and agile ... except the aged HFC outside the pond's house - admittedly better than the corrupt, sodden wretched copper ... decided to bung on a do this morning, and got as slow as a wet wick for hours on end.
Bang went the innovative, agile uploading of teh data ...
Still agile is as agile do ...
The pond of course loves to be innovative and agile ... except the aged HFC outside the pond's house - admittedly better than the corrupt, sodden wretched copper ... decided to bung on a do this morning, and got as slow as a wet wick for hours on end.
Bang went the innovative, agile uploading of teh data ...
Still agile is as agile do ...
So the pond understood broadband isn't a thing you buy. It's a thing you are if you happen to have a carrier pigeon near by...
Naturally the pond turned to the poodle for further guidance, and happily this very day he's in the lizard Oz showing how innovative and agile he is ...
Naturally the pond turned to the poodle for further guidance, and happily this very day he's in the lizard Oz showing how innovative and agile he is ...
Inspirational stuff. Yes, not so long ago the pond would have enjoyed dial-up speeds, and what do you know this very day the pond enjoyed dial-up speeds again. Why that's most excellent science fiction ... and it surely had a remarkable impact on the way the pond lives. Talk about all the hair lost from the hair tugging.
But how splendid to see the inexhaustible poodle at it again, one moment destroying tertiary education, the next spruiking the joys of start ups ... with all the usual innovative bullshit blather favoured by these agile times as we seek to pivot into the gaps ...
Hmm, Rowe can't be right about that, surely not ... how about a PP instead?
Ah that feels better, that's more like it ...
And so back to the pure, undiluted gibberish of the poodle ... oh wait, first Rowe can put us in the mood for the magical reappearing funding ...
Does that mean the fibrous nodes will magically turn HFC connectivity into actual broadband?
Who knows, but it's time for the rest of the blather fest ...
Now the pond will admit to a lingering bitterness, a residual taste of bile in the mouth. All this talk of agile innovation, and the digital marketplace and quantum computing and yadda yadda, and the pond was reduced to dial up speed this very morning.
Oh it went away, but how happy if it had never called at all ...
Care to make things better?
Well there's only one person who makes the pond feel better in this post, and that's David Rowe, and you can find much more Rowe here ...
Take it away eternal David, so we can keep on stopping the bytes ...
An excellent montage, DP, but I am driven to ask "Where's the profit in any of it?". More to the point, am I being unAustralian by, not only refusing to buy actual "newspapers", but by running AdBlockers? I skim the "content" you so faithfully reproduce here, and almost always think "To Hell with it!", where's the sudoku? Anyway, what's Roop to do if he can't sell his crap to advertisers? Is he, or the Packers, able to buy mining access to Twitter, Facebook, etc?
ReplyDeleteI downloaded archives of my Twitter accounts the other day. A simple and slick process, too. Leads me to think they've put a lot of work into analysis of its content. Hmmmmm.
On a brief look at Facebook (hardly used here, only for family stuff) today I was asked if I wanted to supply a phone number, in case of need to reclaim access easily. It's taken them all this time to start on 2-factor authentication? There must be few hacked accounts, for nefarious purposes, I reckon.
This PopSci article by Singer & Brooking is a cracker. How ISIS is taking war to social media.
Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has mastered a particular social-media strategy: He starts arguments with other high-profile figures, which then draws further attention to himself. Surprising to some, ISIS followers have actually welcomed debate about their many horrible and seemingly contradictory acts (for example, the above death by burning is banned by Islamic scripture), believing it widens their reach and gives them standing.
See that "many horrible and seemingly contradictory acts", does it remind of the techniques used by a stable of Australian outlets?
Agile? Innovative? Team Australia? Of course.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.laborherald.com.au/politics/turnbull-comes-a-cropper-on-copper/?utm_content=buffer6f3a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_cam
Surprising no one has twitted a reference to the Lapin Agile, the infamous Montmartre cabaret, previously known as le Cabaret des Assassins.
ReplyDeleteAu Lapin Agile also was popular with questionable Montmartre characters including pimps, eccentrics, simple down-and-outers, a contingent of local anarchists, as well as with students from the Latin Quarter, all mixed with a sprinkling of well-heeled bourgeoisie out on a lark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapin_Agile
"He lived simply on a small farm by the Brisbane River at Kenmore, and often looked unkempt."
ReplyDeleteGood links Anon: Another take on Neoliberal conviction,the normalization of globalism and post-national governance.What may happen to the souffle when the economist opens the oven door too early or too late? Sounds like an interesting read though.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/december/1448888400/scott-ludlam/what-comes-next
"It's not so long ago that making video phone calls...would have seemed like science-fiction."
ReplyDeleteVideophone - conceived by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 (two years after voice telephone), prototype in 1927, commercial service 1936, science fiction "not so long ago". Agile!