Earlier this evening I ducked over to the QUT Creative Industries Precinct to see Adam Greenfield talk at the first of NICTA's Big Picture Seminar Series. I love this photo of him: Photo: The Good Life by slavin fpo He's one of ...Read More
As the end of work approached this evening I was stuck with two options: go home, finish my Master of Arts assignment, or go and listen to a panel about music and fashion. So I found myself in attendance of ...Read More
It seems domain register Go Daddy are tipping that the tiny island nation of Tuvalu is going under sometime soon. No official announcements from the registrar though, just a pop-up that appears if you click on the .tv domain option ...Read More
I think that corporate and organisational Twitter users should hashtag. This all came about after having a conversation by direct messages on Twitter with Spencer Howson from 612 ABC Brisbane (the local ABC radio station) yesterday about their Brisbane traffic tweets. ...Read More
Note: I moved this 'how to' to a separate blog entry because the post on hashtagging got very long. For more information or to read generally about hashtagging read this post. As I said, hashtagging is a user-led marking practice for micro-blogging ...Read More
So I've recently started finding out a bit about this whole hashtagging thing. No idea what that is? That's ok, neither did I. This entry is all about what I have learnt about hashtagging. Basically, in short it is a user-led ...Read More
Still Buzzing is a science fiction, double feature this week when worlds collide. No, literally. No metaphors, no over dramatisation, no bullshit, were talking about when worlds collide. Not some famous 1930s novel (or it's now chic 1951 film adaptation), ...Read More
So it has been announced, by 45 to 41 Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Member for Wentworth has succeeded Brendan Nelson as Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberals. Kim over at Larvatus Prodeo says "Malcolm Turnbull needs to give up on placating all those who still long ...Read More
I had this exchange with Nathan Yergler on Identi.ca just now. Thought it was worth sharing: nyergler McCain: "We're all god's children and we're all Americans." Conversely, those who are not Americans... not god's children. elliottbledsoe @nyergler or worse, those of us ...Read More
I know there has been much discussion about the terms and conditions for Chrome. For the record I was totally aware of them. But I think that some of it was a bit fear-mongering and misrepresentative and some of it ...Read More