Archive for the 'Just geek' Category

Well for the time being. Monday morn­ing saw a flood of email announ­cing new fol­low­ers. I quickly traced it back to Australia’s Top 100 Influ­en­tial Twit­ter­ers. I was sur­prised to see myself as num­ber 62. Since that time my rank­ing slowly drop­ping, as more Aus­tralia twit­ter­ati are dis­covered. Cur­rently I am num­ber 85, and prob­ably by the end of the week I will no longer be one of Australia’s Top 100 Influ­en­tial Twit­ter­ers, but that is no loss. I will keep using twit­ter the way I have been.

In con­junc­tion with Edge of the Web, WebJam9 is com­ing to Perth on the even­ing of Novem­ber 6. You do not need to attend the con­fer­ence to go to Web­Jam.
If you have never been to a Web­Jam, you need to exper­i­ence it at least once. Close to 20 geeks, giv­ing short, and I mean short […]

The ACMA last week released a report into the ISP level fil­ter­ing. I have been spend­ing to much time on Friend­Feed com­mu­nic­at­ing with Amer­ic­ans and missed the release of this report. Note to self, open your feed reader more often.

I have man­aged to keep quiet on inter­net cen­sor­ship, mainly because oth­ers like Stilgher­rian have been doing a good job of provid­ing unbi­aised inform­a­tion on the issues. Then I tried to read what was attempt­ing to masquar­ade as a through sci­entific report, is was too much.

I might be fan of the TransPerth web pres­ence. How­ever, their cus­tomer ser­vice failed for me big time tonight. Work­ing late, I caught the 1935 train home from Perth, so I could con­nect with the 541 bus from Wel­lard sta­tion to drop me off outisde my house. The trip went well until the train attempted […]

There was some noise on Friend­Feed yes­ter­day after­noon, about the new search engine on the block, Cuil (pro­nounced cool). There was enough noise, that Read Write Web wondered How Did Cuil Get So Much Pub­li­city the answer in ped­i­gree ex-Googlers with IBM’s Web Foun­tain and Altav­ista background.

So like many oth­ers, I went and checked it out …

Do you have a Win­dows Mobile device and are jeal­ous of the Safari Browser on the iPhone? But can not or do not want to get an iPhone, well the latest Opera browser for Win­dows Mobile 5 or 6 is for you …

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.