As a part of an event I have coming up, the organisers asked me to do a litte future speculation on the direction the cultural and technological aspects of social networking are taking. Here’s what I put together for them. Since late 2008, Australia and NZ have seen a significant spike in awareness in the general […]
Government 2.0 Camp Australia
Just this weekend, a major event took place in Washington DC — Government 2.0 Camp. It brought together 500 thinkers and doers who seek to engage and transform government in such a way as to make the executive and legislature more open and responsive, more engaged with the public and to ensure that the public, public servants […]
Not the publicity you’re looking for — Stephen Conroy, the clean feed and TIME Magazine
With apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi for the title… Public awareness and momentum against the issue of the Federal Government’s proposed clean feed appears to be growing apace. Now we have the international news magazine, TIME, reporting on it in none too glowing terms: Initially, the minister for communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and […]
acidlabs interview at E2EF
A few weeks back, I attended Ross Dawson’s Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum for the second time. As usual, it was a great event — a lot of depth, several great speakers and a bunch of significantly mature case studies. At the end of the day, Des Walsh interviewed me briefly (the chat was meant to be brief and […]
It won’t happen overnight… changing society is slow
There have been some very interesting blog posts this morning that essentially reflect on the seeming inability of parts of society to join us early adopters on the happy trail we’re blazing as we open our lives online, engage with each other and participate in a way that has never before been available to us […]
acidlabs in NETT magazine
Recently, I was interviewed by Josh Mehlman (@vealmince), editor of NETT, the Australian magazine aimed at small businesses bringing their work and offerings online. The interview was focussed on Australia’s online economy (although the issues have relevance pretty much everywhere). NETT have just published the article online as a sneak preview piece for the upcoming […]
There’s always more… Fake Stephen Conroy, Leslie Nasser and Telstra
I’ve spoken to a couple of the people involved in dealing with this (although not Leslie) as well as several people in the Australia tech and social media industry who are qualified to comment thanks to their expertise. I’m left with a raft of my own questions, as I think everyone, for one reason or […]