Club Troppo

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Worst of Perth sculpts former WA Premier Geoff Gallop and yearns for his return in...

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I was listening to a podcast of a BBC interview with Ian "Supercrunchers" Ayres. Supercrunchers is a book which illustrates all the ways in which the 'new econometrics' or 'social stats' is revolutionising - well lets not get carried away - improving the judgement of all sorts...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Mark Shorter's upcoming performance at MOP projects explores patriarchal modes of power...

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I have about three draft posts, all unfinished on a particular theme which I have touched on once before here . The general theme is the growing viability of doing well by doing good. One of the posts was called Googlenomics and referred to the massive amount of <jargon>consum...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The new Political Compass per Gummo Trotsky Kev Gillett believes the only effect increa...

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I've never known. Anyway, I've discovered a blogger I'd not read before - a stroppy femmo who's a great read - who seems to have similar views to mine . Go and have a good squiz around her site .

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Jacques is advising us that we should upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. He may well be right, but Nicholas and I are nervous/remaining to be convinced. Apparently there are some potential security issues with the version we're currently running. Our concern is that j...

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John Cargher is one of a handful of people who have been part of my consciousness for as long as I can I remember, and who are still doing their thing -- at least, he'll be in this category until tomorrow. There won't be many of these great constants left after that: a quick m...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Anzac Day march Ken Parish indulges in some refuting of Albrechtsen and if nothing else...

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Love him or hate him . . . (when I grow up I want to be director of cliche management for Hill and Knowlton). Anyway John Quiggin has a characteristically good post about Paul Keating , contrasting the expression 'Howard haters' with 'Keating haters'. His point is that the wor...

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I was reading an honours thesis by Joel Ickiewicz and I thought his brief acknowledgements page was so cute I'd share it with other Troppodillians so, with Joel's agreement, it is below the fold and it has won Troppo's inaugural cutest acknowledgements page of the year. This e...

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Writing a post about a Janet Albrechtsen column is almost certainly an advanced symptom of insanity, ranking just behind hairy palms and checking to see if you have them. Nevertheless, her effort in yesterday's Oz about the alleged perils of an Australian charter of rights mer...

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I've proposed a theory of political momentum on Troppo before - somewhere . . . don't ask me for the link (actually I've just thought of one ). But it goes like this. The really good politician is not focused on the next election, but rather trying to strategise a way of getti...

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Well he doesn't actually. I've just copied and pasted a post of his on his blog - below the fold. The contrasting characters (this is not just a matter of style) of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been prominently on display since the Pennsylvania results came in. Her ki...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Graham Young points out yet another pointless quick-fix by the government and then offe...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian If you imagined that concrete "big things" at tourist spots were a uniquely Australian...

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A whilc back 'principle based' regulation was all the rage. Outcomes based regulation is another catch cry. In an interesting paper Chris Berg of the IPA argues that the 'mega regulators' of Australia - the ACCC, APRA and ASIC - have now carved out for themselves such discreti...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian 2020 Roundup Is it too late for Joshua Gans to get a guernsey in the Missing Link Wrapu...

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Following my outlining of Web 2.0 ideas for the ABC on Counterpoint, innovator and entrepreneur Ralph McKay got in touch with me to tell me of his own efforts to develop online opinion markets. These are interesting because they're not principally prediction markets. They're d...

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