Archive for July, 2006

I had inter­est­ing time try­ing to get home and con­tent insur­ance quotes online. Most of Australia’s major insur­ance com­pan­ies and brokers have online applic­a­tions to provide quotes online. The prob­lem is that of the six I tried, five deman­ded that I use Inter­net Explorer. Most required IE 5.0 though one wanted me to upgrade to the latest and greatest Inter­net Explorer 4.0. …

I may link for beer, but will I link for the chance to win an ipod? Simon Col­lison is offer­ing an ipod Nano to one per­son who links to Begin­ning CSS Web Devel­op­ment using an image from his site.

I am a fan of good copy writ­ing. I am lousy at copy writ­ing and will spend too long writ­ing and rewrit­ing the same sen­tence. That is why I sub­scribe to the RSS feed of copyb­log­ger and you will often find Brian Clark’s posts appear­ing in my recom­men­ded read­ing section.

Today I read Feed­Burner acquires Blo­g­beat — FAQs and thought what great copy. I then had the mis­for­tune of read­ing the offical Feed­burner press release. Do fin­an­cial journ­al­ists speak­ing a dif­fer­ent lan­guage to the rest of us? I do under­stand how press releases work, I use to share an office with some­body who wrote them, I have even writ­ten a few. But the dif­fer­ence in lan­guage between the FAQ and the press release, makes it look like there are two people run­ning PR in Feed­burner, one very old school and very journ­al­istic and some­body who writes good copy.

The venue, the Bakery was a little crowded, with seat­ing for some 300 people it was tight to say the least. 250 would of been more com­fort­able, 200 would of been my pref­er­ence, but it all had to do with being a com­mer­cial suc­cess. If the only way to bring Semi-Permanent to Perth was to be crammed like sardines in the dark to listen to speak­ers brought from the other side of the world, I would suf­fer to be inspired, because that was what I look­ing for from Semi-Permanent Perth, inspired in what I was not sure, I just needed to be inspired.

aka I link for beer

Highly obser­v­ant reg­u­lar read­ers might of notice a new cat­egory of links in the homepage side­bar entitled for I link for beer. The new cat­egory is the res­ults of fel­low port80 mem­ber Myles Eftos aka Mad­pi­lot Pro­duc­tions bold state­ment that if enough people linked to his time track­ing web applic­a­tion 88 Miles with the term Simple Time Track­ing he would buy beers at the next port80 meeting.

What is this about port80 mem­bers and beer? …

I have always said I want to learn more about Inform­a­tion Archi­tec­ture and I just hap­pen to be in Sydney on Septem­ber 30 and Octo­ber 1 so the Oz-IA Con­fer­ence & Retreat sounds very inter­est­ing. I was sup­posed to be spend­ing that week­end recov­er­ing from Web Dir­ec­tions and explor­ing Sydney, but the oppor­tun­ity to learn more is so tempting.

tagged ozia2006, WD06