June 8, 2010
What do you do when you know you should be attending a weekly industry meetup but just can’t seem to get there, week after week?
As the crow flies, the nearest industry meetup to my home is North Shore Coffee Morning (#nscm) held each Thursday morning in Mosman, on Sydney’s leafy lower north shore.
It’s a great meetup: small, interesting, diverse group of people, good coffee, and great...
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Last tickets: Lower North Shore Coffee Morning tomorrow
June 3, 2010
I wasn’t going to write about the tragic incident between Israeli forces and the Gaza relief flotilla — this is usually a blog about my work and the issues facing my profession. And so much of it seemed inevitable from the moment the flotilla was first organised — a motley collection of dodgy vessels carrying people representing a broad spectrum of issues would limp towards the Gaza coast, it...
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Israel’s indefensible act: censoring Gaza flotilla journalists
May 28, 2010
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Twitter101: be yourself, don’t be your brand
May 23, 2010
I’m still waiting for my iPad 3G and another iPad (just wifi) for Boy8 and MrsBigyahu. I’ve used several; I get it, they’re going to be huge. While I wait, I’m frustrated by friends complaining that they “don’t want a huge iPhone, without the phone” or “won’t be getting one because it doesn’t have a camera.” You’re not getting...
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In defence of the iPad I don’t yet have
May 12, 2010
Why add polish when in today’s society, being so geeky is so credible? I love this intro video for Diaspora. Now it needs to be mashed-up into a music video for some yet-to-break indie band. Call it “OK Go Make A Social Network”.
The thought for today: when branding, be true to who you are. Customers have a seventh sense for these...
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If you’re a geek, be proud of being a geek
May 11, 2010
In the bright new world of Software As A Service (SAAS) our software sits on a server somewhere and is made available to us in a web browser or a client app, connected over the internet. Nobody doubts that this is the future of software, least of all me, since I’m a habitual early adopter and I would rather keep all the disk space on my MacBook Pro available for music, photos and video
That said,...
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How much is the cloud costing you?
May 10, 2010
They say the best camera to have is the one you have with you. Never more true than this evening when the universe hit me with a stunning sunset as I crossed the shared cycle path across the Warringah Freeway at Neutral Bay. I certainly wouldn’t have thought to take my DSLR out with me to pickup tomatoes from the shops.
Very little trickery used here, just the iPhone in my pocket with the apps...
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The best camera to have is the one with apps on it
May 10, 2010
The democratisation of media technology means if you have something to say in words, you can tweet it, blog it, print it and get 1,000 copies done in perfect-bound full-colour before close-of-business tomorrow. If you ache to express yourself with images you can grab a digital still camera, video camera or mobile phone, edit it there and go straight to the web or to DVD. And if you want to create music all...
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All you need is an idea… and lots of time
April 17, 2010
Tinypay.me is a very quick and simple way to sell stuff online, if (like me) you’d rather sell in your own online store than on eBay or online classifieds.
In one way or another I’ve been working on selling products online since ecommerce was born in the first internet boom of the last decade. At first it was incredibly hard, but one-by-one the barriers to entry have been crumbling and costs...
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Tinypay.me – quick and easy ecommerce
April 15, 2010
Just a small post but here it is: 1,233,522 seconds? 1,233,522 seconds? WTF? Quick, in your head, how many hours is 1,233,522 seconds? Anybody? I didn’t think so.
I’ve seen iCal do some stupid things before but this about takes the cake. What’s worse is I don’t know what I did to deserve this or what I need to do to get my hourly reminders back. For Pete’s sake.
Hey, Apple?...
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No less than five completely unhelpful options from iCal
