National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) Retrospective
Kate Carruthers As a bit of an experiment I participated in National Blog Posting Month for January 2009. It was a real test of discipline to write something every single day. But…
Has web 2.0 gone mainstream?
Given the statistics in this 2007 report from Avenue A Razorfish and recent anecdotal feedback from non-geek friends, students and relatives web 2.0 is firmly entrenched in the mainstream. Ordinary…
Future of the web
This chart from 2007 shows the trajectory of the web future moving in a straight line from where we are now (or were in 2007) to the future of web…
News is really changing
There has been much talk of the death of mainstream media and the impact of the blogosphere on news gathering and journalism. People have pontificated long and loud about the…
Shanks’ Pony (a.k.a. taking a walk)
This fine institution – shanks’ pony – has been a vital part of human transport for generations. It is an old-fashioned term that means travelling by foot. I’ve been experimenting…
Goal setting is not enough
Many time and productivity experts recommend goal setting and suggest writing down goals to help focus on them. But what is it really that stops us from achieving those goals?…
Ada Lovelace Day is 24 March 2009
Ada is an amazing role model for women in science and technology – more here. I’m always surprised to hear from people who have studied computing or programming but who…
The User Revolution & IT
Caught up with Tom Austin at the Gartner conference in Sydney in late 2008 and he shared his perspective on the web 2.0 user revolution and its impact on IT.…
Required history for anyone considering online marketing
Jeremiah Owyang’ post on A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media should be required reading for all marketers seeking to venture online. Some of the issues in…
Cloud Computing – are we there yet?
Way back in the early 1990s Sun Microsystems had a slogan “the network is the computer”. It did not make sense to any of us back then. However, today it…