Parts of this post were originally a comment on Senator Kate Lundy’s blog post on the Clean Feed policy. Today, Senator Kate Lundy, a politician I admire greatly and my local Senator, posted her views on the government’s Clean Feed policy. While hinting at her opposition to the policy, she very much toes the party […]
Do these people have no idea? — the folly of the Internet Filter
This afternoon, Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy made the announcement so many of us had been dreading — that the Federal government would be going ahead with its plans to filter Australian Internet access and unnecessarily protect us from nasties we neither want nor need to be protected from. It […]
Much promise, many miles to travel — my thoughts on the Government 2.0 Taskforce draft report
The release earlier this week of the draft report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce has the potential to be a watershed moment in the management and delivery of government and its services to the people of Australia. I find it more than a little interesting that after not much more than passing interest in the […]
Deep thoughts
I write a lot of words about the three tag words for acidlabs — Conversation. Collaboration. Community. — and what they mean in this world where Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Worker 2.0, Government 2.0 and all the other over-hyped PickHotTopicOfTheDay 2.0 subjects are discussed. It’s not often that I manage to get any of my thoughts spot on, […]
Social media strategy should be a long bet
This post is being published in Marketing Magazine’s 2009 Media Guide. I’m not sure when or if MM are publishing it online. Over the years, I’ve probably dedicated somewhere in the low-mid six figures in words to the subjects that interest me: user experience social media web strategy knowledge work and the people that do it Most […]
Use the connections — recruitment and social networks
Today I spoke at Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution, where I debated (kind of) Seek’s Jake Andrew on the subject Do you need a job board when you have social networking? The text below is the argument I put for my case (more or less). The big news media. The music industry. Recruitment agencies. Job boards. […]





