Technogaze

31 Aug 2013

Creating building materials from Carbon, Tech in the 2013 election, crowd funding in Australia

Technology

Today Mark and Donna discussed DNS and some recent high profile outages borne from DNS vulnerabilities.  Craig joined us to have a chat with Marcus Dawe from Minerals Carbonation International, discussing their work in developing alternatives to carbon geo-sequestration and the carbon capture industry.  We also discussed crowd funding in Australia, after Kick Starter has announced a foray into the Australian and New Zealand market.  We finished up with technology in Australia’s 2013 federal election.

Check out Marcus Dawe’s TEDx talk on what to do with CO2 here.

Some helpful websites for next week’s federal election:

• The Preferences Game
• senate.io (assists upper house candidate selection)
• Below The Line (assists upper and lower house candidate selection)
• Cluey Voter (assists upper house candidate selection)
• Electronic Frontiers Australia election scorecard
• Most important: An election sausage sizzle map

Other web addresses mentioned during the show:

• Phone app – FrontBack (only available on iOS)
• 50 Things a Geek Should Know infographic

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