Learn from the mistakes of others

Having embarked upon this idea of a PhD for 2007-2009/10 for serious, I have begun doing some background reading and suchlike.

What's with all these people writing stuff, eh? I just wanted to to a bit of background browsing, and here I am drowning in references. Not even got EndNote installed yet and I have, oh, a few hundred damn things to check through. Waah!

On the upside, I just might get to do the topic I've begun to suspect I very much want to do. A few people have trampled theses all over censorship, content regulation - even damn obvious feminist excoriations on Internet pornography laws. A few seem to have trampled on the topic space covered in recent discussions with possibleSupervisors™ ... to be sure I'll be drawing on InterLibraryLoans.

Looks like I have some interesting, and plenty of tedious, reading ahead. Yay! (After all, what else would I want to be doing with my time?)

Having embarked upon this idea of a PhD for 2007-2009/10 for serious, I have begun doing some background reading and suchlike.

What's with all these people writing stuff, eh? I just wanted to to a bit of background browsing, and here I am drowning in references. Not even got EndNote installed yet and I have, oh, a few hundred damn things to check through. Waah!

On the upside, I just might get to do the topic I've begun to suspect I very much want to do. A few people have trampled theses all over censorship, content regulation - even damn obvious feminist excoriations on Internet pornography laws. A few seem to have trampled on the topic space covered in recent discussions with possibleSupervisors™ ... to be sure I'll be drawing on InterLibraryLoans.

Looks like I have some interesting, and plenty of tedious, reading ahead. Yay! (After all, what else would I want to be doing with my time?)

If you would have peace, prepare for war.

( The War on Net Neutrality )

QUI DESIDERAT PACEM, BELLUM PRAEPARAT; NEMO PROVOCARE NE OFFENDERE AUDET QUEM INTELLIGET SUPERIOREM ESSE PUGNATUREM.

FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS, DE RE MILITARI, 390 B.C.E.

Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.

I commented recently on someone's blog about this issue. But I forget whom. Please remind me ... I want to revisit what I said.

If you would have peace, prepare for war.

( The War on Net Neutrality )

QUI DESIDERAT PACEM, BELLUM PRAEPARAT; NEMO PROVOCARE NE OFFENDERE AUDET QUEM INTELLIGET SUPERIOREM ESSE PUGNATUREM.

FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS, DE RE MILITARI, 390 B.C.E.

Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.

I commented recently on someone's blog about this issue. But I forget whom. Please remind me ... I want to revisit what I said.

The importance of IP in Australia
http://www.builderau.com.au/manage/business/soa/The_importance_of_IP_in_Australia/0,39024656,39229100,00.htm
Mark Wheeler
January 16, 2006

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The importance of IP in Australia
http://www.builderau.com.au/manage/business/soa/The_importance_of_IP_in_Australia/0,39024656,39229100,00.htm
Mark Wheeler
January 16, 2006

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having just filled out an "expression of interest" for a television documentary (which shall remain confidential) i have realised that i can express my interests in 50 words or less.

i have been interested in the the use and abuse of power since i was in high school. i am particularly interested/concerned with the use and abuse of communication, and hence certain technologies. my legal interests largely spin out from this: propaganda, whistleblowers, sedition, privacy, intellectual property, governance, etc. so to much of my interest in technology, and society.

yep. i'm an aspie, and i'm interested in how people do and don't communicate with each other.

i have had a theory for about twenty years now; that people tend to do/study the things that they need most. by that i mean, look at what a lot of undergraduates end up studying - those who get to choose somewhat freely. they do what they need to do, what makes them tick - or not tick.

how many students in psych could do with a nice long lie down? how many med students are really good at healing compared with how many are driven to do it? (i'm not talking about those who go into med because they're told to or pushed in or got good enough grades or whatever.)

i mean need in both senses - being driven by it, and requiring it.

for me, i'm driven by a need to understand others - and to be understood. i think that's pretty obvious to all of us by now.

so, now i need to do something with this re-realisation.


wish me luck!

having just filled out an "expression of interest" for a television documentary (which shall remain confidential) i have realised that i can express my interests in 50 words or less.

i have been interested in the the use and abuse of power since i was in high school. i am particularly interested/concerned with the use and abuse of communication, and hence certain technologies. my legal interests largely spin out from this: propaganda, whistleblowers, sedition, privacy, intellectual property, governance, etc. so to much of my interest in technology, and society.

yep. i'm an aspie, and i'm interested in how people do and don't communicate with each other.

i have had a theory for about twenty years now; that people tend to do/study the things that they need most. by that i mean, look at what a lot of undergraduates end up studying - those who get to choose somewhat freely. they do what they need to do, what makes them tick - or not tick.

how many students in psych could do with a nice long lie down? how many med students are really good at healing compared with how many are driven to do it? (i'm not talking about those who go into med because they're told to or pushed in or got good enough grades or whatever.)

i mean need in both senses - being driven by it, and requiring it.

for me, i'm driven by a need to understand others - and to be understood. i think that's pretty obvious to all of us by now.

so, now i need to do something with this re-realisation.


wish me luck!