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Vote for geeks to attend KRudd's Australia 2020 summit. It sounds a bit like a cricket match to me, maybe they need a better name for it. Or perhaps it is due to a deeper understanding of the Aussie psyche - they know some people will accidentally tune
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I'm on a panel discussion at ad:tech sydney (Wednesday, March 12, 4:20pm - 5:10pm ) ... and it should be fun. The topic is Merging Online and Offline Initiatives: Integrating a Brand Online MODERATOR: Michael Gethen, CEO, Independent Digital Media PANEL: Cameron Holland, Global eCommerce Manager, Lonely
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Ross Dawson has just posted his Trend Blend 2008: Trends mentioned in the map include: * Simplicity * Reality mining * 3-D printers * Virtual protest * Female chauvinism * Geospatial web * Celebrity worship * Karma capitalism * Networked risk * Data visualisation * Same sex couples (with kids) * Constant partial attention Ross suggests checking out Richard Watson’s new
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The number of social shopping sites is increasing (here is some listed by Mashable) . These type of sites are starting to build up momentum and they are building on social networking and the predilection of people to research online before they buy. It will be interesting to see how far
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A large truck crashed into the wall on the F3 early this morning and closed the southbound carriageway leading to the usual traffic chaos for commuters north of Berowra. Here are some images of the traffic on the Old Pacific Highway - this road is usually empty -traffic has been
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Aggregation of research that debunks some of our ideas about non-verbal behaviour, for example "The idea the vast majority of communication occurs nonverbally is quoted everywhere from advertising to popular psychology articles. In fact the original experiments from which these findings derive have been seriously questioned." Definitely worth
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User Interface Design Patterns is a really helpful site. In the software world we've used software design patterns as good practice in coding but the idea is not so prevalent in the UI design space. Which is funny when you think about the use patterns for websites. There
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Anarchism is one of those words we use without really thinking about it's real meaning. Usually it is used as shorthand for disorder, no order or chaos. But there is a long history behind this political philosophy, and it was a significant driver of radical political activity in
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Ian Kath sharing some perspicacious points he found on Youtube about Australia Day, Australian-ness and our mob: By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
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For all who have missed the significant developments in the LOLcode meme here is an update from Adam Lindsay (the inventor of this important concept): Dear Slashdotter, where have you been? "It looks like LOLCODE got some second-hand attention from a Perl6 story on the front page. It looks
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Even the mainstream (i.e. banks) are starting to understand the power of UGC (user generated content) - here is the quote of the week: "I believe that notions like user centred development, like user-created content and social networking are all very powerful trends and that it would be