Monthly Archives: April 2006

Open Source Management

Posted on April 30, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

    The lobby at Google headquarters – where “open source management” (whatever that is) no doubt takes place Here’s an interesting article on Google – on how it tries to maintain it’s evolutionary edge as an organisation. The thinking … Continue reading →

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Dusty: death of oz musical theatre?

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Ken Parish

        Tamsin Carroll belts one out in Dusty: The Musical Troy Dodds at AussieTheatre.com has an engaging rant about the “jukebox musical” genre, of which Dusty: The Musical (recently doco’d to death on ABC TV) is the … Continue reading →

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The art of conversation

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

Are birds better conversationalists than humans? Why the cover illustration? Some Troppodilians may be interested in this New York Review of Books review of a book du jour entiled On Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller. … Continue reading →

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Alternative freedom

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

Courtesy of Slashdot, there’s a new documentary on open source and free culture featuring various leading lights – most particularly Laurence Lessig and Richard Stallman. Go see a trailer here. Looks interesting. It’s odd that they haven’t ‘open-sourced’ the doco … Continue reading →

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Ask a silly question: get a collection of desire

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

Yesterday I asked people to tell me what a list of books have in common. They include Enid Blighton’s The Magic Faraway Tree and Milan Kundera’s Unbearable lightness of being. Lance Armstrong’s It’s not about the Bike and Emily Bronte’s … Continue reading →

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Beauty and the Beast (2)

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Ken Parish

Jacqui Stockdale, The Nature Maker. Courtesy Art Gallery of NSW. The Art Life has a long-ish post reviewing the Wynn, Sulman and Photographic Portrait Prizes (decided at the same time as the much more famous Archibald Prize for portraiture).   … Continue reading →

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Supertahs?

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Christopher Sheil

                    The House of Pain Shortly, the Waratahs will be  playing the Highlanders at the House of Pain, possibly in the rain, and I’m praying that they won’t  fold again. Having … Continue reading →

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