by leon | Jan 14, 2019 | Blogs
The development of the internet has changed society in ways that no-one predicted. When it was created, the web was totally decentralised. On one of the World Wide Web’s first pages, Tim Berners-Lee declared there would be “no top to the web.” In its first major...
by leon | Dec 17, 2018 | Blogs
So now it’s official. According to new data from Pew Research, adults in the US got their news from social media more often than print newspapers in 2018. The Pew data shows that 20 per cent of Americans got their news from social media, versus 16 per cent who got it...
by leon | Dec 10, 2018 | Blogs
G’day. I am Leon Gettler, bringing you the latest news on what’s happening in the media. And the job cuts have started at Fairfax. Just a week after the Federal Court approved Nine’s takeover of Fairfax, the chief executive of Nine has announced that a total of 144...
by leon | Oct 10, 2018 | Blogs
Much has been said about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi was a forceful critic of the Saudi government. He went missing after he entered the consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials say they believe he was murdered there. Khashoggi was a Saudi...
by leon | Jan 3, 2018 | Blogs
Why is Malcolm Turnbull attacking a group that represents 0.08 per cent of the Australian population? On Monday, Turnbull blamed the Andrews Labor government for the alleged gang violence and lawlessness of members of the Sudanese community Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp...
by leon | Jan 2, 2018 | Blogs
Bitcoin has had a bad start to the year by tumbling, extending its slide from a record $19,511 reached on Dec. 18 to $13,440 as of 3:55 p.m. in New York, down 6.1 percent from Friday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Bitcoin has drawn investors keen to make a...
by leon | Dec 25, 2017 | Blogs
So Malcolm Turnbull today put in a publically ostentatious display today of looking after the needy by joining 1000 of Sydney’s lonely and homeless at the Wayside chapel on Christmas Day. This is so heart warming. Coming after his government’s robo-debt...
by leon | Dec 18, 2017 | Blogs
Bitcoin is having a massive impact on the future of this planet. It’s shaping up as an environmental disaster with a carbon footprint as big as New Zealand’s, and it’s growing. A year ago, Bitcoin was worth less than a thousand dollars per coin. It climbed to over...
by leon | Dec 2, 2017 | Blogs
So former United States national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the federal investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. The big worry for Trump is that Flynn has agreed to...
by leon | Nov 30, 2017 | Blogs
Much has been made of Bitcoing surging past $11,000 Bitcoin has risen tenfold in value so far this year, the largest gain of all asset classes. Everyone from Wall Street executives to venture capitalists have been weighing in with their forecasts. Some are sceptical...