Facebook is used (mostly) by members as a gated community. They want to keep information within the network, not have it published in the newspaper. News.com.au sucks sometimes: Stinging status leads to Facebook fracas WE are nominating this the Facebook fracas of the week. Names have been changed and bad words bleeped to protect the…
What do I do in the evenings? Well, I have my avatars pose, act, and otherwise help/hinder Gary Hayes in exploring the 3D web on webpages. Why, what do you do? Here’s Gary’s post Inching Towards the live Web 3.0 – Layered Social Virtual Worlds My work in virtual world give me a unique –…
EDIT: Add 215 FriendFeed subs… can’t believe I forgot FF! Why don’t bloggers tell their statistics – visitor, comments, rss feed subscribers, email subs etc – more often, and more publicly? Is it that we think our friends/competitors (often the same in this social media industry, heh) will giggle at our inadequate tools? Is it…
How I created a blog widget, gadget, snippet, blidget of my crap for you to add to your blog/website. How sexy is this Blidget? Widgetbox is one of those easy to make widget sites. A blidget is a widget or gadget (a box with RSS feeds, like MyYahoo or iGoogle) – people can subscribe to…
Welcome home darling, how was your day at the cube farm? Bit of a discussion in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 27-28, page 3 MyCareer) about putting hobbies on job applications. (You go find the linkety link). I blame the education system for this kind of nonsense. Howard Rheingold said it so well at eduau2007…
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 today the wiki is back up as a Document of Record. He also mentioned that they got a huge…
Anyone watch the Second Life thingie on 60 minutes last night? You any the wiser? I missed it – did they mention that only 3000 Australians have signed up? Globally there are 7 million avatars – but only 1 and 1/2 million have logged in the last 60 days and I never see more than…
A number of people either dropped hardcopy on my desk or emailed me the article from The Sydney Morning Herald Simply the Best by David Stonehouse. By David Sifry’s count, there are more than 33 million blogs out there. He’s in a good position to know – he’s the founder and chief executive of Technorati…
… 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…
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