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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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How To Think Like a Futurist (Craig Rispin at Gartner Symposium)

I had a press pass to the 2010 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo and specifically made time to attend Craig Rispin’s session “How To Think Like a Futurist as I’d heard he had some thought provoking ideas to share. He made a lot of good points including his first one which was that futurists need to read lots [...]

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Life as a Political Editorial Cartoonist: Jon Kudelka and First Dog On The Moon Interviewed

Political cartoons (also known as editorial cartoons) are one of the most powerful parts of the news media because they’re capable of dissecting complex issues, pointing out the elephant in the room and ridiculing powerful figures in society far more succinctly than a political journalist can using hundreds or even thousands of words. According to [...]

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Behind the Scenes of Radio National Future Tense

Andrew Davies is the producer of Future Tense presented & co-produced by Antony Funnell on Australia’s ABC Radio National (RN). As a long time listener to RN Media Report, (another team effort by Andrew & Antony) I wondered what this replacement Future Tense program debuting in early 2009 would be like … “Future or Bust” [...]

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Inside the Mind of a Marathon Runner

EDITOR: I’ve always wondered what prompts a person to decide to run marathons as they’re one of the toughest mental and physical activities that people can do “for fun”. My limit is the 14.3km City2Surf run so when I heard that my friend Lucy had successfully completed a marathon (42.2km) on the 1st attempt I [...]

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What Its Like Working As A Remote Area Pharmacist in Outback Australia

GUEST ARTICLE: G’day. I’m Robbo. I do have a real name, but my first name can’t be used due to cultural reasons I discovered that on my first day out here four years ago and have used my nickname ever since from here to meetings with government departments! I work as a Remote Area Pharmacist [...]

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Working as a Train Driver – What is it Like?

Train driver – Eric Scaresbrook Eric Scaresbrook is a Train Driver on Sydney’s Cityrail network. I met Eric at a trivia competition a few months ago. After finding out that he was a Train Driver I knew he’d be an interesting interview subject. Neerav Bhatt: When little kids are asked what job they want to [...]

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My Frontpage Interview in UWS Gradlife: Professional Blogger Hits Big Time

I was recently interviewed by the University of Western Sydney (UWS) Gradlife magazine about my life experience and achievements since graduating with a UWS Bachelor of Business Computing (E-Business) degree in 2002. The interview was published on the front page of the latest issue and can be seen below (click on the photo to see [...]

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What it is it like to be a Research Scientist

Patrick Lim is a research scientist working full-time as a member of the Angiogenesis group at the Heart Research Institute, looking at the role of special stem cells in blood on a person’s ability to recover from blocked blood vessels, and how these differ in men and women, as well as people with Diabetes. Patrick’s [...]

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Channel 10 TV News Interview Me and 2 other Australian Bloggers

Last week Channel 10 news reporter Josh Murphy came to my home office and interviewed me. This footage was used in today’s Channel 10 news feature story which asked 3 bloggers about professional blogging – earning a living from blogs. The story focused on Darren Rowse aka Problogger and added some advice by Karen Cheng [...]

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Making Money from Blogging: B5Media and Orble Professional Bloggers Interviewed

Making money from blogging is a very popular topic these days, today I’m interviewing two Internet friends of mine who get paid to write by the Orble and B5Media blog networks to give you an idea about what’s involved in being an employee professional blogger in a Blog network. Rico from B5media‘s Contract Worker blog [...]

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Rise of the Carbon Traders: Interview with COzero Founder

Interview #2 – What it’s like to be a Carbon Offsetter Less than 6 years out of high school Nick Armstrong (see photo) is about to launch COzero – a new carbon offset business. Neerav Bhatt: Hi Nick. I’ll start by asking what you’ve done since finishing high school (Sydney Boys High Class of 2001). [...]

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What its like to be a Freelance Journalist

This is the first in a series of intermittent interviews on this blog with people who have interesting or unique jobs/life experience. Interview #1 – What it’s like to be a Freelance Journalist David Wilson (see photo) has written for the South China Morning Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun [...]

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