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An article and an interview

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-10-14 · 12 Comments

About two weeks I had my first ever paid-for article published. “Are Videogames Conservative?” appeared in the September edition of The IPA Review (57:3). Today, Libby Price, a presenter on Melbourne radio station 3LO, got in contact with me to do a radio interview. I managed to schedule a break in my Berlitz training so [...]

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Microsoft Student: It’s like, totally lame

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-07-6 · 2 Comments

Today Microsoft released a new software suite for students. It’s aimed at secondary-school students, and offers them resources to help them complete assignments in standard subject areas like maths, science and so on. Students would probably be best advised to get an Apple computer if they want to be productive, which would stop them running [...]

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MIT Blog Survey

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-07-2 · Leave a Comment

Today I did a survey that MIT is carrying out. The questions focus on what your blogging practice is like, and on what kinds of people you know personally. If you read this and keep a blog, give it a go. Hell, there sure are stupider internet surveys you could do. Thanks to dogpossum for [...]

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My grounds for supporting VSU

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-06-23 · 3 Comments

Today, the last in a series of emails I exchanged with Michelle Smith, Publications Officer of the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, about the relationship between identity politics and VSU (Voluntary Student Unionism). In today’s installment, I explain that one of the reasons I support VSU is because I believe it’s immoral to force people [...]

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Thesis: Ch. 1–Introduction

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-03-20 · 3 Comments

Today I’ve posted the frontmatter and introduction of my PhD thesis on role-playing videogames, which now has “its own page here.”:http:/benhourigan.com/phd-thesis I’m really hoping to get some feedback on this, especially from gamers. Some reasons why you should read the thesis as I serialise it, so you can give me comments: * It’s the only [...]

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Personal attacks

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-03-17 · 5 Comments

Today, dogpossum posted what is, so far, the most antagonistic comment related to my site that I’ve yet received. Her blog doesn’t have permalinks, so you’ll just have to search for 17 March 2005. Currently, though, it’s at or near the top of the blog. I don’t mind antagonism. In fact, I know that just [...]

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Student unionism should be voluntary

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-03-17 · 6 Comments

With legislation to ban compulsory student unionism currently before parliament, student groups are protesting “on the streets”:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/16/1110913665403.html, on posters stuck around campus, and “to the press”:http://theage.com.au/news/National/Student-union-says-fees-abolition-a-jokes/2005/03/16/1110913641956.html to keep union membership compulsory. Even “Vice Chancellors are expressing concerns”:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/16/1110913665400.html. I find it staggering that people would protest against their own freedom of association. Okay, if you appreciate [...]

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    Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.

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