The Un-Email Generation
Kate Carruthers One interesting thing about teaching accounting students at the university is that I get to ask them what they think about various web trends that I follow. It’s nothing formal,…
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The LOLs Prayer
Sometimes when you’re having a bad day the only recourse is Ceiling Cat: Our Cat, who art in ceiling,Hallowed be thy LOLs.Thy cheezeburger come.Thy wants be done,On floor as it…
Social networking traffic v. email
Late last year Hitwise reported that social networking internet traffic surpassed email service internet traffic in the UK. This trend was also noted in Asia. This is a signifier of…
Looking forward to Pubcamp Sydney
“Do you ever get the feeling you don’t really understand where the Web’s heading (let alone this Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 you keep hearing about) or that it’s leaving…
Psychology of why reuse fails – courtesy of GeekAndPoke
This amusing cartoon by Geek and Poke captures one of the important reasons why so much of our planned software reuse fails. Thus projects often fail to achieve the economy…
#myspacedev jam Sydney 0.1
Went to the inaugural MySpace Dev Jam in Sydney today. Great chance to hear from some startups that are doing some work with MySpace and an extremely funky venue (see…
New Oz IT Calendar
Great new Oz IT event calendar by Mick over at Pollenizer. To add events, invite pf44opfb12hherild7h2pl11b4@group.calendar.google.com By Carruthers via Aide-mémoirehttp://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
The power of hypertext & hyperconnection – the semantic web we are weaving
I had seen this clip on YouTube ages ago but recent thinking made it relevant again when a friend shared it on Facebook. As discussed recently we unleashed tremendous power…
Beam me up John Chambers
This is one of the things that reminds me of how much Star Trek and Star Wars have informed my technological dreams. Here, in late 2007, Cisco demonstrates an “On-Stage…
Coming out from the walled garden – Globe and Mail
In really interesting move the Canadian news site Globe and Mail have just opened up their site for free. No more walled garden! As they put it “the locks are…