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A conversation with Simon Sharwood at Tech.Ed Sydney regarding his recent article on small business technology really helped to crystallise some thinking for me. Because most of my working life has been inside large organisations like GE, AMP, Citigroup or government the problems of technology pricing had never really

I have been watching the iPhone clutching hordes of my acquaintance with their pretty new phones and wondering if that was the answer for me.  But something stopped me from queueing up to collect my iPhone overnight in the winter cold with my buddies.  It was the thought that my

I have learned to hate many mobile phones over the past few years.  They have promised much but delivered little of that promise.  They often even failed to deliver on the basic promise of making telephone calls reliably. Sony Ericsson invented a really complex and multi-layered menu system that

You can attend Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp at Web Directions South at a bargain price (according to my buddy @trib). Register here and quote the discount code - W2BAL - with this deal you're getting a hefty discount to the normal price. BTW, Web Directions South is shaping up

We are seeing a fluidity in the way techies interact with different technologies today. This topic came up in a conversation with @ceibner at Microsoft Tech Ed earlier today. In  the past people focused on a very narrow (often proprietary) technology stack, such as Java or .NET.  However, now with

Had some fun today with @ceibner and @alegrya at Microsoft TechEd, also ran into @rog42 and @nickhodge - a few pics are up on Flickr Also was on panel session for high school students at TechEd this morning with @nazzer and Dorothea and Ms Megabyte talking about ICT careers for women

Download r285135_1214670.mp3 Had a slightly surreal indoor rockclimbing experience in Sydney this week when a few friends and I were interviewed for a vox pop on the ABC Insiders program this week, it was our 2 minutes of fame (podcast here) John Robens & Colin Atkinson