Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:

I know it may be hard to believe, but there is absolutely no doubt about it: Ronald Wilson Reagan committed horrible, racist, hate crimes during his presidency.

A lot of people know about the infamy surrounding Ronald Wilson Reagan's former existence.

And a lot of people will know about Reagan's infamy–even until the end of human existence: they'll find out.

Numbers 32:23: “Be sure your sin will find you out.”

Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., With the Highest Level of Academic Honors at Graduation, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. And there are at least hundreds of copies in very many countries around the world.)
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“If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never faded and they never got stale.” Off the top of my head?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùit came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.

However I also believe that globalisation is having a drastic effect on the information/media industry – and as we go further down that path the importance of location based news will decrease. Take for example the desk you're sitting at: 20 years ago it would have been made by a local carpenter/cabinet maker – fast forward to today and its just as likely to have come from a swedish multi-national company.

When you are looking for a new desk do you look in the yellow pages? or do you look on the net knowing you can probably find something that suits your needs better and can be shipped from anywhere for a minimal cost.

The same principle holds true for politics or finance where the Euro dropping(or rising) or a US bank collapse has more effect on Australia as a whole than almost any change in domestic politics or finance.

Lets just face up to the fact that we're now part of the global information economy and the sooner we realize that the sooner we can stop our share of input from being eroded.

But still, it would be nice to see more people try to create more of a startup/blogosphere scene in OZ.

If we're five years behind, then 2008 is the year isn't it?

We do plenty of investigative journalism, and we're staunchly Australian.

Cheers,

Renai LeMay
News Editor
ZDNet.com.au

Otherwise I completely agree with you. The market is so small and sometimes you don't feel like competitive enough — and people get slack and don't produce good content.