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How Fast Can You Blog?

Scientists are working on the even faster internet.

The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Tellytubbies Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

Perhaps it is so that bloggers can burn out faster.

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Scary stuff. How much did you say it cost again? Sounds a bit more in the league of the Pentagon and the like than your average blogger or blog reader.

Hema Online Advert

This is very cute and effective retail marketing.

It has obviously been around the world and back and the brand is modestly trumpeted by Anorak. I saw it most recently on Meg's blog and Ian's blog.

Censorship Smokescreen by New Age Labor

The New Age Labor Government has proposed mandatory filtering of objectionable (to be determined) internet sites, focussing on protecting children.

Stephen Collins, who obviously understands a lot more about the technical issues and who is also a parent has a well balanced piece discussing the proposed internet filtering plan.

Yesterday’s announcement verifying the Australian Federal Government will be mandatorily requiring ISPs to filter the nastiness from the ‘Net is plain and simple stupidity. Not only is it simply not achievable, it’s nanny stating at its worst and significantly limiting of free speech (something we don’t have a guaranteed right to in Australia AFAIK).

I am all for protecting children. We do it by only allowing internet access in our living room with parental supervision and talking openly about any slightly off the wall stuff that inevitably comes up.

Personally I think that this is just a smokescreen to mask some of the really hard decisions coming up about how to proceed with the huge promised broadband investment and the fight with Yanqui Sol and the boys from Telstra as they set about their plan to reestablish the Telstra monopoly on the the most profitable parts of the telecommunications infrastructure in Australia.

Duncan Riley from Techcrunch also has some thoughts including some good links and a very robust comment thread.

And here is the Public Announcement from Teh Department of Internets (Interwebs??)

.....This........ Guy......... Can .........Make ........My........Internet.......Go.......Faster

Australia's creaking broadband network which ranks up their with Afghanistan in network speed has a bright future despite the best efforts of the current government and everyones favourite telco, Telstra's short sighted under investment in broadband infrastructure.

An Australian technowiz has worked out how to make copper networks run porn valuable educational information through the wires faster.

An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.

University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections.

Most ADSL services around the world are effectively limited to speeds between 1 to 20Mbps, but if Dr Papandriopoulos's technology is successfully commercialised that speed ceiling would be closer to 100Mbps.

Very good news for Australian internet users if this technology can be commercialised.

Clickable Web Trend Map

A map of the internet based on the Tokyo Metro System and current trends and patterns.

A diagramatic bookmark tool.

How to Make $5 Million Online in One Year

Snoskred is an Australian blogger and expert on internet scams. She is in receipt of over $5,000,000 in fake financial instruments from scammers who she scambaited using proven techniques. She shares her story, with lots of useful information here.

Very interesting reading and well worth sharing.

Access to Broadband - The Defining Issue

For me there is no other issue than the current governments attitude to broadband (Fraudband?) that defines their has been status. It is all catch up. Australia is a third tier nation in world rankings of internet infrastructure, with large sections of the population unable to access even modest broadband.

The technologies currently used, ADSL and wireless are plagued with inconsistent service, are relatively slow and relatively expensive. The monopoly telco, Telstra, which was privatised without really thinking through the current requirements for telecommunications services, by the government, wants to build the next big super duper mega fast roll out, keep all the customers and charge about three times what we are currently paying for our service.

So Australian in business strategy. Set up a monopoly or if you have to, a duopoly and carve up the market. How about some real competition. Thank goodness for the ACCC, who at least stand guard over predatory and monopolistic practices, which many Australian businesses seem to favor.

Whatever happens, Australia is likely to move up to the second tier in the next few years, once the men with the money figure out how to line their own pockets. A net positive I suppose.