In the current climate a title like "free speech, free minds, free markets" suggests that we're in for a last ditch effort by the right to deploy democratic ideals in a bid to avoid tighter regulation of the financial system. So I was pleasantly surprised to find out that in this case it referred to a presentation by Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) talking about the ideals of the organization and his plan for an open source search engine. His plan definitely represents an alternative rationality to the advertising driven search-engines that dominate our current use of the internet. If you have some listening time I recommend the full program rather than the excerpt I've posted below.
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I post sporadically and often in bursts. This is more of an archive of material that I find interesting rather than a diarist's blog. The blog itself is my "best of" selection of podcasts and vodcasts mainly from the ABC but also covering other sources. There's material here that deals with the creative arts, science, philosophy and religion. The most obvious thing that links the stuff that I post here is intellectual and/or creative rigour. Other more tangental connections come from thinking about how this material informs my critical and creative practice. More info about my art-making can be found here.
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I post a lot of videos here that have no indispensable visual content. Generally I recommend turning off your screens and listening to these videos. They make all kinds of housework more stimulating as well as adding a bit of intellectual spice to your daily exercise routine. Whenever I can, I link to downloadable audio for the podcasts that I post here. This obviously opens up all sorts of portable options for engaging with this material. Activities that might have synergistic effect when combined with your listening include; commuting, digging in the garden, sitting in the sun, cooking, clipping your toenails or taking a bath.
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