Like Mark Pesce and Chris Rowland, I think I should make abundantly clear my reasons for getting involved in Telstra’s Social Review program, not least because of some of the bile that’s being sprayed about on Twitter. Like the others, it’s not a ridiculous purchase for me to go out and spend between $700-$1200 on […]
I Desire more memory
It looks like I’ve found the first big Achilles Heel of this thing, and for me, it might just be a deal breaker. The Telstra edition of the Desire does not have enough memory. The specs say it has 512Mb ROM, which is where I’m assuming the apps are stored and run from. That doesn’t […]
Six hours with the HTC Desire
The postie delivered the HTC Desire that I’ve been given by Telstra as a part of their Social Reviewer program at 3:30PM this afternoon. I’ve been poking at and tweaking it since then, so the thoughts below represent a very initial and fairly random set of responses. Android is still something of a geek’s phone OS. […]
Putting the Desire through its paces
This morning, Telstra announced the 25 reviewers in it’s HTC Social Review competition. I feel pretty lucky to be one of them. I’m in there with 24 other people who I’m pretty confident will give these devices a solid workout and provide great feedback. While we’re all obviously technically adept, somewhat geeky and active on the […]
On folly, freedom and filters
Wearing my EFA Board Member hat, I spoke today at an event at Parliament House hosted by the Menzies Research Centre in a debate with Tony McLellan of the Australian Christian Lobby. The audience was primarily members of the Australian Liberal Students Federation; young Liberals destined for jobs as political staffers and politicians. Below is […]
The opportunity of Government 2.0 (with little MarComms)
An interesting discussion thread has been underway on the LinkedIn I’ve been saying this in several projects I’ve been involved in of late, and in more than one public speaking engagement; one of the least interesting things you can do with social tools, whether you call them Web 2.0, Government 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, social business, […]
Further thoughts on Government 2.0 in Australia — PSI and licensing
This week, the government responded to the Government 2.0 Taskforce report. I wrote briefly about my thoughts to the response the same day. Since then, I’ve been asked by several people what it would take for me to be more impressed with the response; what it would take to lift the C+ I gave it to […]
Government response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce Report — my thoughts
Today, the Federal Government responded to the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. While this response has taken rather longer than I would have hoped, that the government has responded in what appears to be an emerging election period, with many policy changes currently in the public eye, means I am more than pleased that […]