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Blog Central is a space for RMIT academics and senior staff to blog about their areas of expertise and interests.
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Fit and proper: measuring the man
Writing in Screen Hub in April, I ended a commentary on the troubles besieging the News of the World, the market-leading ‘Red Top’ tabloid of News Corporations stable of British newspapers as follows: At the moment, the box into which James Murdoch was confident, last week, that the issue [of hacking] had been put, is [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Media & Communications Tagged Alan Bond, Australian High Court, media, media empire, News of the World, newspaper, Rupert Murdoch Comments closed
Peabody’s bid for Macarthur Coal is hardly a carbon tax endorsement
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has claimed that US-based Peabody Energy’s $5bn takeover bid for Queensland’s Macarthur Coal represents an endorsement for the government’s carbon tax. But does Peabody’s bid indicate that international investors see a good future for coal in Australia? Gillard’s claim assumes too much. Important aspects to consider include: Macarthur Coal specialises in [...]
Posted in Economics & Finance, Media & Communications, Politics Tagged Australian coal industry, Australian government, carbon tax, coal, coal industry, compensation, construction, electricity generation, exports, Julia Gillard, mining, mining tax Comments closed
You’ve got mail – how to stop spam and reduce cyber crime
We’ve all received them: emails offering special prices on Viagra, offering fortunes we didn’t know we had, offering links to fantastic websites we simply must visit right away. Annoying as! But the technology to stop spam and other undesirable emails not only exists, it’s been around for years. With cyber crime costing Australia more [...]
Posted in Information Systems, Media & Communications, Social Media, Technology Tagged cyber crime, email, fake emails, internet, phishing, server, SMTP, SMTP-AUTH, SMTPS, spam, SSL certificate Comments closed
From divided nuclear states to connected gigacity
In 1996, Professor Choe Sang Chuel at Seoul National University noticed about 100 million people were living in a corridor shaped like a S lying on its side, stretching 1,500km from Beijing to Shenyang, Dalian, Pyongyang, Seoul, Osaka and Tokyo. They are divided by language, by history, by politics, but most of all, by the [...]
Posted in Media & Communications, Research, Sustainability, Technology Tagged Beijing, decentralised, gigacity, nuclear weapons, Osaka, renewable energy, Seoul, Tokyo, virtual connectedness Comments closed
A taxing question: does Tomic qualify as an Australian hero?