The Queensland Writers Centre, of which I am a member, distributes a newsletter each month (with a trendily obscure cover) with “helpful” advice to writers.
As there is no letters to the editor section or any other mechanism for comments, suggestions and feedback, it does appear to be a closed shop! In this digital age, they don’t even have a forum or allow comments on their own blog!
Unfortunately, like most of the publishing industry (it used to be a profession), it has its head buried in the sand and only occasionally blinks around in a lame and often late effort to discover what is really occurring! Like the entire publishing business inAustralia, it is, sadly, ten years behind the times. Publishers,companies, critics, agents - you could slap a glass dish over the lot and call it Jurassic Park! Oops, that’s been taken, hasn’t it.
Organised religion is not spiritual in any shape of form. It is simply about power, control, profit and market share like any other large corporation!
The Vatican is a great example of a large multi-national corporation with little conscience as long as market share is maintained.
Here’s a good example.
As we know, there have been Jewish allegations that the wartime Pope Pius XII did not raise his voice against the Holocaust as he was more concerned about Communism.
Although denied by many, this theory is now supported by documents found in the National Archives at Kew, according to an Italian historian.
Read more at The Times Online
It’s all a mathematical formula where x = a dumb audience!
Modern Hollywood blockbusters follow a distinctive mathematical formula where similar camera shots aimed to maintain fickle audiences’ attention spans, a study found.
American researchers, who analysed the duration of every shot in 150 high-grossing films over the past seventy years, discovered that a certain length of scene would most likely grab our attention.
From Hungry Beast
Tony either thinks he’s clever or that we are dumb!
Simplicity Zen 007
Rudd with Conroy and censorship team
At last a reply from Senator Biggles!
Disappointing (it is just a PDF of a scanned document his office sends to anyone who raise the issue) because of the number of misleading statements it contains.
Taken into account?
Simplicity Zen 006
1. Australian politicians are cardboard humans!
As we insist on voting for political parties in Australia and not for individuals, we end up with faceless party hacks that will toe the party line no matter what.
Their political party sucks the individualism and personal ethics right out of them! In short, they serve their political party before they serve their electorate or the nation.
Simplicity Zen 005
Australian Internet Censorship Buzz.
Reichsminister for Censorship Stephen Conroy
1. The Australian communications regulator’s top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked on to the web and paints a harrowing picture of Australia’s forthcoming internet censorship regime.
Half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist. (More)
2. Proposed Australian laws on Internet censorship are sometimes referred to as the Great Australian Firewall, Rabbit Proof Firewall
