by Laurel Papworth on September 30, 2007 · 0 comments
Naked Yak have been travelling the world looking for you. Scary huh?
Who Are We Looking For?Many people can write in a conversational style, but few can engage people effectively across different media. Fewer can combine that skill with [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 29, 2007 · 3 comments
EDIT: I had a very nice voicemail from NZ Police Superintendent Hamish McCardle, the officer in charge of developing the new act – he wanted to let us know that they agree about transparency and that [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 26, 2007 · 8 comments
I’m going to Melbourne to see Howard Rheingold and you aren’t. nyehnyeh nyeh nyeh. I’m going to Melbourne to see Howard Rheingold and you aren’t. nyehnyeh nyeh nyeh. I’m going to Melbourne to see Howard Rheingold and you aren’t. nyehnyeh nyeh nyeh. I’m going to Melbourne to see Howard Rheingold and you aren’t. nyehnyeh nyeh [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 25, 2007 · 6 comments
Just to balance out the previous post:I posted up on bloggerati australia back in Mid-August the AustralianIT article about a proposed Consultation blog by Canberra. TechCrunch’ Duncan Riley (Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is Best Left To Everyone Else) [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 23, 2007 · 6 comments
From Mashable (why didn’t I see this anywhere else? hmmm?):
Is Australia the New China?
by Kristen Nicole
by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 1 comment
Yeh I know, pollies in online communities is boring, but here’s an interesting debate at broadband’s most powerful online community, Whirlpool (WP), posted half an hour ago:
Does Whirlpool have a formal policy on what sort of contributions political candidates can make here?
A few weeks ago, I ran upon the site of a NSW [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 7 comments
Two spots left for Tuesday’s how to build a social network. It’s sort of a DIY course, at the Powerhouse Museum, as part of the WebDirections South cycle.:
Description
People are aggegrating on the net in social networks and online communities. Successful corporate sites are moving away from static information portals and are now enabling visitors to [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 0 comments
Just a quick note: I had a lovely email from ‘sprung‘ apologising for the site scrape of this blog to centerofcontents.com. He bought a SEO script and didn’t realise fully what it meant – I’m not posting his whole email, but here’s a snippet.
After i found your post, And i chew over about this many [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 4 comments
I heard about this on Wednesday – anyone told the Australian Financial Review yet? (Here are my previous pieces on AFR here and here).
On Tuesday at midnight this week the New York Times released its archives since 1987 from behind the previous for-pay wall that kept those archives from being searched. Already, it is [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 21, 2007 · 3 comments
Auntie is looking for you:
New Technologies Marketing Manager
New Technologies Marketing Manager
ABC Marketing
Ultimo, Sydney
$68,041 – $74,418 pa + super
Temporary Vacancy – 7 months
The ABC is looking for a motivated Marketing Manager to fill a 7-month contract position within its ABC Marketing Department.
This role will provide specialist support to all marketing [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 20, 2007 · 0 comments
Friend of mine needs advice. Should she go see this guy’s band (long story) or stay away? Please go to her site and vote -there’s a poll – before the weekend, cos she’s not sure what to do with him? Hmmm? What do you mean, this post is not about social networking? It is [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 19, 2007 · 2 comments
It always kills me the length people will go to, online, to stay across information. On one of my forums, about 4 or 5 years ago (when it was harder to do) a member ran a cache/proxy so that he could monitor every delete and edit. God forbid you should put something up and then [...]