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2nd Annual BRW Digital Media For Marketing Leaders Forum 2008 - APPARENTLY CANCELLED!

2nd Annual BRW Digital Media For Marketing Leaders Forum 2008 - APPARENTLY CANCELLED!

UPDATE #2, 3 Mar 2008: Well have finally received half hearted and limp 'apology' email from someone at IIR late this afternoon. Apparently they sent the email a few weeks ago to an old email address. This is in spite of the fact that I sent them an

International Women's Day 2008

International Women's Day 2008

It is coming up to International Women's Day again and it made me think about how far women have come in the last 200 years, and how far we have yet to go. There is a good summary of the history (or herstory as some call it) at

Krigsman's Qantas Predictions

Qantas Airways: a perfect storm for IT failure? - ZDNETQantas, the Australian national airline, has endured two high-profile IT failures in recent years and a third major project appears to be at substantial risk. In many respects, the company offers a case study for examining how underlying management issues can

The web is not forever ...

The web is not forever ...

Over the past few days I have been thinking about history, in particular the history of telecommunications. It is easy for us to imagine that the Internet will be with us forever, indeed many cannot imagine what we did before it was invented. But technology that enables communication has come

Why email is so old fashioned ...

Why email is so old fashioned ...

Here we go at last - it is reported that the younger folks just don't like email ... According to Michael Fitzpatrick, Guardian February 28, 2008 "Mobile texting is now outstripping the use of email among the young. Michael Fitzpatrick reports. The art of correspondence faces another rude shove

Microsoft going LOLcode?

Microsoft going LOLcode?

Nick Hodge suggests that future Microsoft developement may be in LOLcode? Perhaps it is teh way of teh future ... "On Saturday at BarCamp Melbourne, Nick Hodge, from the evangelist team at Microsoft, gave a lightning talk about something that makes the geeks at MS very excited - LOLCODE. Soon you

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