AussieCon 4 - Day Three - On ebooks and online presence

There were two sessions that were pretty closely related as they turned out, The first was "Did the Future Just Arrive: The E-book and the Publishing Industry", followed by "The Writer and the Audience: Online Interaction and Public Personae". First… more »

AussieCon 4 - Day Three - Copyright in the 21st Century

An interesting set of talks today at AussieCon 4. There were so many more I would have liked to have seen, but packing the huge number of topics into a tight schedule will always result in those sorts of tradeoffs. First up, a subject dear to my heart,… more »

Climate change and feeling helpless

I'm in Melbourne at AussieCon 4. My wife is in western Victoria, with heavy rains cutting roads between us. She is currently trying to channel water out of the chook yard. Even if I dropped everything and went home to help there is currently no way to… more »

AussieCon 4 - Day Two

I was tempted to title this "From Stiletto to Steel Cap - the fashions of AussieCon", although at least one other blogger has already touched on this subject, so perhaps not. For me today's running sheet started with "To Eternity and Beyond" - about… more »

Rediscovering Melbourne

This week I've come to appreciate Melbourne again. I used to spend a lot of time in Melbourne, as a school kid haunting the Pickwick Papers Bookshop in the Degraves Street entrance to Flinders Street Station, going up Swanston Street to Space Age Books… more »

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