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Climate Change, Lack of Political Vision and Tragedy Of The Commons

Climate change tops the bill as the #1 election issue for Australians online according to new research from Experian Hitwise but the major parties aren’t willing to address it because for Labor it’s easier to ignore the problem for the short term and the Liberals have a individualistic market forces driven approach which doesn’t like [...]

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Better Off Ted – Dark Workplace Satirical Comedy (DVD Review)

If you’re a fan of Dilbert and the movie Office Space like me, chances are you’ll love the ABC America TV series Better Off Ted now out on DVD.

Better Off Ted is a dark satirical comedy which follows the bizarre life of Ted Crisp, head of an R&D department at Veridian Dynamics, a soulless amoral [...]

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UPS Surge Protectors with Battery Backup: Belkin F6S600auUSB 600VA and F6S400auUSB 400VA Review

Thanks to 2 Belkin UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) units none of my key electrical equipment got damaged last week when the electrical wiring in part of my home failed.
If you don’t use a UPS then you’re taking the risk that a lightning strike, power surge, electricity brownout or blackout will cause your Computer, modem, [...]

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Global Financial Crisis: Great Time to Grow a New Business

GUEST ARTICLE: Almost 18 months ago, during the Global Financial Crisis, I wanted to share a bit of optimism so I wrote this post about it being the best time to start a new business and I believe I was right.

“Growth”. photo credit: iChaz

These were my main arguments:

It Takes Time – to start [...]

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Media 2010 Sydney Conference Highlights

I had a press pass to the Media 2010 conference last Friday and have uploaded photos of some of the interesting Media 2010 slides to Flickr.

Media 2010 is a co-production of XmediaLab and Fairfax Digital whose aim is to bring together leading visionaries to mark the turning of the most exciting decade in the [...]

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Achieving Your Potential

I often think how many people I come across don’t reach their full potential. I know they have great skills or knowledge which could lead to them living a richer life (in terms of well being and/or financially) but these skills/knowledge are lying dormant

photo credit: morberg

Some of these people are doing work they hate [...]

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Veteran Journalist Alan Kohler Analyses The Click Economy

I attended the Search Engine Room 2009 conference and found the Keynote address by veteran journalist and entrepreneur Alan Kohler about The Click Economy full of useful insights about how the seismic changes in the media industry will play out and the impacts these changes will have on both advertising and publishing.

Alan Kohler is [...]

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Lesson from History: Todays Copyright Enforcer USA Was Yesterdays Biggest Pirate

Like me you’ll be familiar with American news stories like Justice Dept. Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Fine Against Minnesota Mom and MPAA Shuts Down Entire Town’s Wi-Fi Over Single Illegal Download

Pirate Flag. photo credit: nickhumphries

However I bet you don’t know that The United States of America (USA) was the biggest copyright pirate in the [...]

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My ABC Unleashed Article about Future of Journalism

Good news The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) “Unleashed” online department asked me to write an article for them about the Media 140 Sydney conference I attended recently

My article highlighted the best practical advice from Media140, rather than addressing well-worn arguments about bloggers vs. journalists, media outlets sacking journalists by the hundreds, the [...]

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Media140 Sydney 2009 – Future of Journalism in the Social Media Age

I follow goings on in the Australian, European and American media very carefully and consider what I do for a living as a professional blogger to be at the bleeding edge of change in the media.

So I immediately volunteered to be a blogger/photographer when I found out that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) was hosting [...]

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Twitters Impact on Media and Journalism – The Insight Exchange

The Insight Exchange is a series of monthly topic driven lunches that offers executives a chance to gain valuable information in a short period of time while networking with like minded people. Yesterday I attended their discussion forum : “Twitter’s Impact on Media & Journalism”

Overall I think Beth, Ross and Jess organized the event [...]

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CEBIT Webforward Conference Review

Last week amidst a busy schedule I managed to attend part of the CEBIT Webforward Conference. Sessions that I attended covered topics such as: “Mobile Web & Applications”, “Improving Web Usability & User Experience”, “Theory & Practice behind Social Influence Marketing”, “Social Media For Business” and “Web Analytics, Metrics & Information Management”. On the whole [...]

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Bitter Sweet Chocolate For Child Workers in Cocoa Industry

I was chatting with Keith Don from World Vision Australia during Easter when the topic of chocolate inevitably came up. Keith told me that the chocolate industry has a dark side which few people know about…

Almost 3/4 of the world’s chocolate uses cocoa beans sourced from West Africa.
Instead of being able to go to school [...]

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Encyclopedia Britannica: How the Mighty Have Fallen, Lessons For Market Incumbents

Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous fall from grace.
Formerly a powerful company that could demand and receive large payments for access to it’s storehouse of human knowledge, it’s now been reduced to near irrelevancy and suffers the ignoble fate of [...]

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Intrusive Internet Video Ads: Lose Friends and Annoy People

I woke up yesterday to see this broadcast message on Twitter by my friend Stilgherrian: “Dear Fairfax, video adverts which auto-play with sound turned on are REALLY F*CKING ANNOYING and make me hate you and your advertisers.”

I agree wholeheartedly and had said so only the day before: Neerav: “ATTN: Online advertising ppl. I hate those [...]

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