Reasonable Hours of Work in the ICT Industry
Kate Carruthers A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants…
New Digital Divide?
Seth Godin makes an interesting point about a new digital divide: “I think a new divide has opened up, one that is based far more on choice than on circumstance.…
Blogtalk Downunder part 2
Was reviewing the pictures on the Blogtalk Downunder Flickr and it occurred to me just now that I have not seen so many Mac notebooks in one place ever before.…
Blogtalk Downunder
Just back from the Blogtalk Downunder conference that was held here in Sydney over the past few days. The conference was organised by the education department from the University of…
Out and about – Robyn Henderson & Gordon Bell
In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who…
Women and getting ahead in business
Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: “Honey, you must be very young. It’s not just about how hard you work. The ole’ boy’s network…
Reading a new book … Z
Am reading a new book by a first time fiction author, it is called “Z” by Jonar Nader and it has some really interesting ideas. He has written some other…
Cool dog monks
In my web travels I came across a monastery with monks that train and raise dogs. On their website they articulate some of joy and wisdom of having a close…
Transcripts: Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference
Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it’s a blog)…
How Net Gen people think and learn
As always Belinda from journoz: Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists provides some good resources, this one is worth a look … The Net Generation’s “aptitudes, attitudes, expectations,…