Homeland Stupidity? I’m really intrigued. Not so much by sites with cool and irreverent names, but by their Gonzo Marketing techniques (I loved that book). I should link to the author but do I pick his evil alter ego Rage Boy or his grown up *boring* Wired magazine, Cluetrain Manifesto editor link- guess which one…
One for the chix from my friends at LaVolta: Online Editor Wonderful opportunity to work with this start-up in building their Online Content strategy. The role reports directly to the MD and is responsible for the editorial voice and tone of the network of sites. It’s a web 2.0 publishing enterprise offering an online community…
2Spare.com (2 Much Time 2 Spare) have a list of the top 87 bad predictions in all sectors. The list has 590 votes. Let me extract out the ones of interest in computing and such – and I’ll add a few at the bottom of recent ones: «640k is enough for everyone.» William F. Gates…
Follow up to my bloglet rants on realestate.com.au (example from last year) – Glenn Roberts Jr. of Inman News (where Real Estate and Technology Connect) says: Editor’s note: Real estate agents are learning that online community sites can be useful in reaching their target audience. Agents can use community Web sites to raise awareness about…
From Dion Hinchcliffe, Editor of OpenSource: I call the use of Web 2.0 for business purposes, both internal and customer-facing, Enterprise Web 2.0. At its core, Web 2.0 is about harnessing collective intelligence and most of the rest of the Web 2.0 ideas fall out from this concept. And that highlights a monumental difference between…
Love what’s hapening over at CNet – they are slowly but surely evolving into collaborative shopping site. I had a brief (email) convo with Jeremy R., the snr Editor for Australia. With our recent 1 May redesign, we now offer users the ability to rate products on our site (whether they are reviews or previews…
I did have high hopes for NowWeAreTalking (see my bloglet and subsequent comments) Telstra’s attempt to build an online community around it’s services. But. The Age (Helen Westerman and Rebecca Urban) has an article, Telstra makes a discourtesy call. TELSTRA’S online mouthpiece nowwearetalking.com.au likes to do some plain speaking.But a recent posting taking a swing…
… is to freedom of speech or is it to not incite war? If we talk about ‘freedom of the press’ well, what is the ‘press’ these days? That naughty Tim Blair is at it again (the link is for his newish address, it would appear that he moves his blog every year or so…
Went off with Erietta and Jo S to The Sydney Institute tonight, and gosh! who would’ve thunk that journo’s would have a way with words??!!?? Great speakers, all 3 of ’em. Matt Price from The Australian introduced the topic – The Gallery: Insular, Intrusive or Indispensable? – and very amusing he was too. No real…
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