March 31, 2010
I’m moderating a new Digital Citizens Event coming up on Tuesday April 13th, with the theme of “Social Media for Social Good.”
Secret: I’ve never moderated at an event before (I’m usually either speaking or heckling the speakers) so this might be a refreshing change, at least for the crowd and the speakers. Please come along and heckle me — I am a large and slow-moving...
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Social Media for Social Good: can social media really make a difference?
October 29, 2009
Gavin Heaton and Mark Pollard are curating A Perfect Gift For A Man — a book about manhood arising from the blogosphere’s contributions to Reach Out and Triple J’s Man Week project. There’s #manweek on Twitter too.
UPDATE: there’s now an ebook and a printed book (AUD$44.95) available through Blurb. The following contribution didn’t make the book but that’s because the...
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The Errol Flynn Skill Set
October 12, 2009
Insiders at News Limited used to joke about the company’s negotiating tactics — “We stride in, boots-and-all, and shout, ‘Don’t you know who the #%^$ we are? We’re @&*^ News Corp!’ Apparently, that’s served them well for many years.
I can only assume that’s what’s to be read between the lines here, as Rupert Murdoch once again fires broadsides at...
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Rupert the Sun King: lots of heat, not much light
July 18, 2009
I just signed up for the beta of business advice community Bizmore and wanted to contribute something to help them get started. Someone else had asked, “Should our company have a blog?” I’ve answered that many times in person, but I’ve never written about it. It’s a difficult topic to write about without coming across like shallow self-promotion, and the interweb does NOT need...
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Should our company have a blog?
May 31, 2009
Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy
Believe it or not I was trying to draw a little guy sitting at a laptop. Can you see it? Done on my iPhone. More at...
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And this, son, is why your father should never be allowed to be a graphic designer
May 29, 2009
How the iPhone changed how i park my car
If you don’t yet have an iPhone but you have friends who do, chances are you’ll have seen them struggle to define how the iPhone is more than just a phone.
It’s hard to describe, but for me the essence is that the iPhone’s hardware components are programmable. I’ll delve into that in more detail in a later post but for the moment,...
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The iPhone changed how i park my car
May 15, 2009
The Polar Rose Product Team in their T-Shirts
It’s hard to find something that rewards a global audience and as a startup it can be difficult to find something with sufficient universal appeal, low unit cost and easy shippability to, say, reward beta testers for their hard work.
Behavioural economics teaches us that virtual value (such as a free month’s site hosting extension) has nothing...
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Show users the love with an easy tee
March 26, 2009
A friend of mine is running social media for the Obama administration. They’ve invited the community to contribute questions to an online town hall in the US tomorrow. So far, 41,306 people have asked 42,126 questions and cast 1,556,109 votes on which questions Obama should answer.
Wow. Has Obama succeeded in building an online political dialogue with the US electorate that will last beyond the...
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42,126 questions for Obama
March 18, 2009
mHits needs a bit more work
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mHits needs a bit more for mobile payments to work
February 2, 2009
iCal: where’s the map field?
Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy
I really don’t like Apple’s iCal. If it weren’t so tightly integrated to OS X and the iPhone I would prefer not to use it. It has so many weird interface things going it’s actually quite hard to use. It’s well below par when measured against most Apple apps.
It’s not only the unconventional...
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iCal: where’s the map field?
