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Plurk, Twitter, BrightKite, Hellotxt, Ping.fm, FriendFeed et al can they work together?

June 14th, 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.

Confessions of a blank generation alpha geek

June 13th, 2008

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 …

My way home meme

June 10th, 2008

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.

WDS08 are giving an iPhone away and I want to win it.

June 10th, 2008

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…

Elastic or not?

May 24th, 2008

I am looking for your views on an issue I am having with a design for a new website at work. I am a fan of elastic design (which you might of noticed if you are reading this via my blog). The original intention was to have a basic design for the smaller (< [...]

Is the Premier’s home page worth $1.50 to visit?

May 20th, 2008

The site of the Western Australian Premier is one of the alarming number of websites that are built just for broadband users, while ignoring those on dialup or those on expensive mobile broadband networks. The home page in question weighs in at over hefty 750kb. Which is fine for business and home users with decent broadband, but not everybody has access to fast and cheap broadband in Western Australia.

I am not just talking about outback Western Australia …

Presentation Planning the Presentation

May 10th, 2008

Direct from BarCamp Perth2.0, here are the slides, the presentation plan and introduction I used.

An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices : Free W3C Online Training Course

May 5th, 2008

The W3C are running a free online training in Mobile Web Best Practices, you can find out more on the course overview page or you can head straight over to the registration page. You might need to rush seeing the course is limited to 100 participants.

Update 1720WST 5 May 2008 , just got informed by W3C the course is now full, the 100 places where filled quicker than they expected.

Hat tip to Scenario Girl. See you on the course Lisa.

BarCamp Perth 2.0

April 24th, 2008

After the buzz of last year barcamp in Perth and hearing so much about the recent Barcamp Sydney 3 and the initial Barcamp Canberra, I am so looking forward to another barcamp in Perth.
Well my prayers have been answered. BarCamp Perth 2.0 is on May 10 at Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth. Over [...]

A matter of timing

April 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, I finally posted on ENABLEnet, the free wifi at the State Library. I did mention that it had been reliable and asked for feedback on your experiences. Well guess what, today it had problems. …

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