Archive for December, 2007

I thought I got a good deal at the begin­ning of the year when I signed up for mobile broad­band for 1Gb at $49 a month. Reg­u­lar read­ers will know that got upgraded to 2Gb a month, for the same price a few months ago. Well there is now a price war on, with Voda­fone offer­ing 5Gb for $39 a month, then 3 offer­ing 2Gb for $24.50 a month and now 1Gb a month for $14.50 (for 3 cus­tom­ers only), for lim­ited time only.

There are a few things to be wary of, to get a free modem you need to sign up for a 2 year con­tract. Data is cal­cu­lated on both uploads and down­loads. If you exceed your monthly limit, you are charged at a rate of $0.10 a Mb. The ser­vice is lim­ited to met­ro­pol­itan area of major Aus­tralian cit­ies. Which means …

When research­ing the Gov­ern­ment web­sites in the Web 2.0 age present­a­tion for Bar­Camp Nano , I found a lack of resources avail­able on the web about gov­ern­ment use of web 2.0 tools. So instead of just post­ing that present­a­tion here, I cre­ated Gov Web2.0 show­case. A blog to spread the word that there are government […]

Research­ing Gov­ern­ment use of web 2.0 tech­no­logy for this week’s Bar­Camp Nano, I found the Ripped Off blog. Which allows NSW con­sumers to tell their stor­ies about being ripped off