lolcats
Many people have pondered my fascination with lolcats. The answer is simple: humour using animals as a proxy allows us to delve deeply into the human condition, to reveal our foibles and frailties. A good example is the recent post I shared from icanhascheezburger. It highlights the dangers of success
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social computing & social media
You know that moment? The one where you realise you've left your mobile phone somewhere. It happened to me recently in New York. I was on the train to JFK airport, heading to Los Angeles, when that sinking feeling was accompanied by a vivid memory of my iPhone
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civil society
Since I'm in transit to New York to speak at the 140Conference about Twitter, Community & Social Innovation David Hood had planned for me to join in Gathering11 from a distance using the power of technology. However, due to what can only identified as #EPICFAIL on the technology
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One of the people who is vocal in his calls for change in how we do things in our westernised societies is Umair Haque. His work is worth reading whether or not you agree with his perspective. Some of his recent provocative tweets include: History may have been ruled by
social computing & social media
When I checked on a major search engine the other day there were 247,000,000 results for the term "content is king". Many people have said it to me over the past few years, and I admit to having said it myself on occasion. It seems that
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This made me think of Senators Penny Wong & David Bushby: Senator Wong fired back: "You meow when a woman does that ... that's a good idea. It is just extraordinary. "The blokes are allowed to yell but if a woman stands her ground, you want to
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Just finished a dinner in Canberra with @IainDale @msgovtech @craigthomler @purserj @piawaugh @stilgherrian @peterjblack @nickhodgemsft @markpesce @gcarraro before the forum tomorrow. We had some really lively discussions about politics, society, transparency and government. With this group one must really fight to get a word in edgewise! But Iain Dale, who
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