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Cricket Australia Simultaneously Encouraging and Banning Taking Photos

I’ve always been a cricket fan. Last week I attended a T20 Big Bash league match at the Sydney Cricket Ground and found that the Cricket Australia terms and conditions of spectator entry regarding photography inside the venue were seemingly arbitrarily enforced. When entering private land you consent to rules that land owners impose on [...]

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NBN Australia: Big Picture Historical, Present, Future perspective on National Broadband Network

The National Broadband Network (NBN) was a key policy in the platform that led to Labor winning government after the 2007 and 2010 Australian Federal elections. The project will take almost a decade to build. And yet most reporting on the NBN tends to focus on the news for that day, or week at best. [...]

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Impact of NBN on Visual F/X Industry: Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic

The proposed National Broadband Network (NBN) will have an impact on many parts of our lives at work and home. I spoke with a variety of people in the Australian visual effects (VFX) industry about how the NBN could effect their industry. Phil Sullivan is a classic example of how talented Australians in the VFX [...]

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5 Tips for First Time Japan Business Travellers

GUEST ARTICLE: So you’ve been asked by your company to head over to Japan and you’re worried that you’ll make a bad impression? The number one thing you should keep in mind is don’t worry, you’re not Japanese. As such you won’t be expected to know the right way of doing things. That said, it [...]

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Mobile Communication Off The Beaten Track for Rural Australians and Travellers

The falling cost of satellite phones and GPS tracker devices is making it easier for travellers to places off the beaten track to call, SMS, tweet and facebook their friends and family about their trip as well as contacting emergency services if they get into trouble. However this raises a troubling question. If the purpose [...]

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X Media Lab – Imagination, Science Fiction and Planning for the Future

X Media Lab is an internationally acclaimed digital media think-tank and creative workshop which has a strong presence in emerging powerhouse creative and business markets like China and the Middle East. They organise conferences bringing people from creative industries together around the world including Sydney, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur and Sweden. “Future or Bust” – photo [...]

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Online Reputation Management: ABC Radio Interview & UTS Journalism Guest Lecture

With the benefit of planning and taking a long term strategic approach individuals can build a positive reputation for themselves online. I was interviewed by ABC Radio National Future Tense and did a guest lecture at the University of Technology Sydney about this topic recently. It’s over 12 years since then CEO of Sun Microsystems [...]

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Winners and Losers from Fast Rising Australian Dollar

Many Australians are taking advantage of the rising $AUS against the $US to go online shopping or book a holiday to the USA. However Australian businesses selling goods and services overseas which are paid for in $US are unhappy as their income continues to fall. This is my first experiment using Storify – a new [...]

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No Ones Reputation is Immortal: Reflections on Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I recently had a discussion with a friend about how no one’s reputation is immortal. It doesn’t matter if you’re the ruler of a vast empire or owner of the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. Erosion will relentlessly wear down physical artifacts of your existence and the sands of passing time will [...]

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Electric Cars – The Future of Australian Motoring? (GEARE #64)

With all the buzz surrounding cars like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster, not to mention hybrid petrol-electrics like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid, you’d think that electricity-powered cars were a relatively recent innovation. But you’d be wrong. They may be touted as the future of personal transport, but electric [...]

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Evolving IPTV Poses Worldwide Challenge To Incumbent Broadcast TV Networks

Like it or not, thanks to the rapid spread of internet access and constantly evolving consumer electronics the media industry lives in interesting times. This decade is an inflection point where changes in technology and the media are happening with potentially as great an impact as the introduction of broadcast TV and radio last century. [...]

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2011 Year of the Tablet-iPad, Android, Blackberry, Mobile Apps and Connectivity – Business Spectator Webinar

I was recently a guest expert for a Business Spectator webinar about 2011 possibly being the Year of the Tablet: discussing hardware like the iPad, Google Android, Blackberry as well as Mobile Apps and Connectivity … all in the context of how Australian organisations and their employees can use these to be more effective and [...]

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Mobile Games and Lolcats: Ways To Relax and Unwind or Waste of Time and Cognitive Surplus?

Is it a tragic waste of time & cognitive surplus that people spend so much time on mobile and online social games like Farmville, Angry Birds, Lolcats etc? Opinions are mixed with claims that people are spending too much time playing games that program humans into machines which respond automatically to stimuli and others arguing [...]

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Harvey Norman Margin Over 60% Percent – Frustrated Technology Manufacturer Speaks Out

The fat margins of Australia’s few major consumer electronics retailers and product distributors are causing companies who actually make the products to tear their hair out in frustration after constant attacks from customers who compare local prices to those in the USA or UK and say they’re being rorted. I’ve watched discussions amongst Australian customers [...]

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Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil (ABC TV DVD Review)

Ever thought about where the petrol in your car’s fuel tank comes from? That’s where the story of “Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil” begins around 160 million years ago in the area now known as the Middle East, which was then covered by sea. The key players in this story are the plentiful microscopic [...]

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