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Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my
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Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones' podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a fascinating discussion - so many interesting ideas to consider: What happens when our real and virtual worlds collide? And how
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Here's a little quote from one of my Gen Y friends on my Facebook wall today: "I won't ever pay for normal news content ever again full stop. If i wanted to subscribe to something niche likes financial markets pieces etc, then potentially yes, but
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The very smart Vint Cerf sharing some of the things he'd change about the internet (via Fora.tv). Fascinating stuff. http://fora.tv/embedded_player
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I had the pleasure of running into Jim Shomos the other night & he was telling me about his latest project - Mordy Koots. This project is amazing in the way that it brings together so many of the threads of film, gaming, web and social computing. Lots of the ideas
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Today is Blog Action Day 2009 & the topic is climate change. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a
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A number of organisations have stepped up to offer prizes for Cupcake Camp Sydney. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank them for their generosity, and also to show the prizes that our cupcake makers could win. The Plantronics has provided one of their Discovery 925 Bluetooth earpiece. It
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Social Networking – Past & future Looking back to 2007 – and it seems so long ago now – social networking was just starting to get a bit of buzz happening. Some of the social networks that we were talking about in 2007 included Bebo, MySpace, Second Life, and YouTube. Back in those
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Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 It is easy to look at a statement like this and poke fun. Hindsight is a wonderful thing! But as I have said on many occasions - innovation always comes unexpectedly & from the periphery. Very often the innovation is not a completely new technology,
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It is very easy for young, well-educated urban women in Australia to think that we have achieved equal rights both here and overseas. Consequently one often hears comments like 'I am not a feminist, but of course I believe in equality' - and the speaker often genuinely believes
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I remember that two years ago the we were all fussing about MySpace. Then last year we were all abuzz about Facebook. And this year the big thing is Twitter. What this means for most of us is that we ought not fall in love with a particular social networking
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Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I've been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I've seen its powerful properties of network amplification working in practice. My friend and colleague Mark Pesce has recently discussed