Archive for June, 2008

Eric Scheid has con­firmed that OZIA 2008 is at the Stam­ford Plaza in Double Bay on 20 & 21 Septem­ber. So I have booked my flight for OZIA 2008 and WDS08 and my accom­mod­a­tion for both con­fer­ences, and I am not the only one.
So why I so excited about a con­fer­ence, 4000 kilo­metres away, when there […]

In the past few days since it’s release Feedly has been gen­er­at­ing a huge buzz, a quick look for Feedly on Sum­mize(Twit­ter search engine) gives you an idea of the impact this exten­sion for Fire­fox 3 has had on early adop­ters in that time.
Up until the begin­ning of this year, I was using Bloglines as my […]

Con­ver­sa­tion has been a hot topic on the web recently, with Tech­Crunch, Duncan Riley, Alex van Elsas and Julian Bald­win amongst oth­ers. The main con­cern seems to be that new com­ments solu­tions are tak­ing the con­ver­sa­tion away from the ori­gin­at­ing web page. The oppos­ing view is that con­ver­sa­tion in the real world it is frag­men­ted. With dif­fer­ent people join­ing and leav­ing the con­ver­sa­tion at dif­fer­ent times.

This got me think­ing about …

After get­ting tagged again by Ruth and speak­ing to Miles who was vis­it­ing the State Lib­rary to work on his spe­cial pro­ject. I decided to have a second go at the On my way home meme. This time a more typ­ical trip home, by train and bike, last Friday.

Leav­ing the lib­rary on a Fri­day evening, […]

Fol­low­ing up from my pre­vi­ous post on Con­ver­sa­tion vs Noise. This is about car­ry­ing out dis­cus­sions, this is not about status updates like “I just had baked beans on toast for din­ner”, nor is it about the reli­ab­il­ity of the ser­vice (given Twiiter&#8217s recent prob­lems). This is purely about using the ser­vice to carry out con­ver­sa­tions with intel­li­gent people, yes there are people like that on the internet.

If you hap­pen to be read­ing this post through my web­site, you might notice a few changes. Which should be hope­fully be the first of many, it is time I dragged this blog out of 2006, the last time I did any major changes into 2008…

Con­ver­sa­tion vs. Noise

The title might sound like link­bait, pick­ing on some of the new darlings of social net­work­ing, but my ques­tion is should we be the ser­vices using them in com­bin­a­tion, flood­ing the chan­nels with a lot of noise and little chance of conversation.

Blank Gen­er­a­tion

It star­ted a couple of weeks beek read­ing Nath­an­ael B’s post on Gen Y work­ers in the Gen Y work­place. I thought I bet­ter check that I was Gen X before com­ment­ing, so off to the author­ity of wikipedia …

Ben tagged me with the my way home meme, and being busy last week, I ignored my feed reader until the week­end. I had ori­gin­ally thought I should do it in reverse, take the pho­tos on my way to work and reverse them, because I start work late and return home late in the dark at this time of year. I also chose to take the pho­tos last Monday, which was one of the few stormy days of the year and instead of rid­ing my push­bike to the train sta­tion, I took the bus. So here is my trip home on a stormy winter night.

Do I want one of those brand new 3G iPhone, YES. But I will wait until what will and see what is going to hap­pen with the offers by all the major tel­cos in Aus­tralia, before committing…