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Australian Politics on G’day World 299.

By Nick Hodge | October 28, 2007

Debat­ing with Cameron Reilly is like fight­ing an intel­lec­tual tor­nado. Thank­fully I was being grilled after a bottle of merlot.

In the instance of this pod­cast, I am speak­ing for myself not my employer (which I make clear in the podcast)

In ret­ro­spect, the dis­cus­sion could go on for another 30 minutes: the concept of Geeks for Good is a concept that is rat­tling around in my head.

Topics: gdayworld, podcast, politics | 1 Comment »

One Response to “Australian Politics on G’day World 299.”

  1. TPN :: GDay World » Blog Archive » Podcamp Perth 2007 - final impressions Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 12:06 am

    […] Nick summed up my rant from our recent pod­cast as “Geeks For Good” (I love how we describes debat­ing with me as “like fight­ing a intel­lec­tual tor­nado”), and I think that sums it up pretty well — shouldn’t we be using our geek powers for good? Is it just me? Does any­one else out there feel like us geeks have a respons­ib­il­ity to use our under­stand­ing of com­put­ing and new com­mu­nic­a­tion tech­no­lo­gies to make the world a bet­ter place? Or is it all just about mak­ing ourselves richer and buy­ing newer toys? […]

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