Press

My blog has been cited many times by other social media sources and has sig­nif­i­cant author­ity. A rel­a­tively com­plete list of media men­tions for acid­labs and Stephen Collins is avail­able at ClaimID. Some recent media is listed below.

Some recent media has largely been in the con­text of my past role as the spokesper­son for Elec­tronic Fron­tiers Aus­tralia. This search will find rel­e­vant material.

Get­ting the hacker men­tal­ity badly wrong (Lowy Inter­preter, 20 Decem­ber 2010) a piece dis­cussing the nature of the hacker men­tal­ity and its links to democ­racy, mer­i­toc­racy and open government.

Wik­ileaks: Dam­age or demo­c­ra­tic oppor­tu­nity? (Lowy Inter­preter, 14 Decem­ber 2010) a dis­cus­sion of my views of the oppor­tu­ni­ties aris­ing from Wik­iLeaks for gov­ern­ment, pol­icy, diplo­macy and journalism.

Real gov­ern­ment social media work begins now (Com­put­er­World, May 2010) dis­cussing the for­mal gov­ern­ment response to the Gov­ern­ment 2.0 Task­force report.

A research dilemma: Con­fi­den­tial­ity breaches (Research News, Octo­ber 2009) dis­cussing the man­age­ment of cus­tomer rela­tion­ships when your infor­ma­tion has been crit­i­cized and exposed online.

Here, Now and Next (Yikes!, Sep­tem­ber 2009) dis­cussing cul­tural shift, youth, hyper­con­nect­ed­ness and the value of social networks.

Cul­ture in the New Order (InSight, Sep­tem­ber 2009) is a guest essay in which I dis­cuss the pub­lic sec­tor, cul­tural shift and open government.

Tel­stra con­signs nowwearetalk­ing to the mem­ory hole — Crikey, 8 Sep­tem­ber 2009

Inter­viewed on the self-​​inflicted cor­po­rate image dam­age Tel­stra has done by clos­ing NowWeAreTalking.

Fake fol­low­ers: Prime Min­is­ter drown­ing in Twit­ter spam — iTWire, 28 July 2009

Inter­viewed for piece that explores the impli­ca­tions for high pro­file indi­vid­u­als of fake fol­low­ers on Twitter.

Brands see value in keep­ing tabs on social web — The Aus­tralian, 27 April 2009

Inter­viewed and quoted with respect to the impor­tance of no-​​spin brand mon­i­tor­ing and par­tic­i­pa­tion in online conversation.

Social net­work­ing for busi­ness — TV3 NZ Sun­rise, 23 April 2009

Inter­viewed on the Kiwi edi­tion of Sun­rise on the issue of busi­ness ben­e­fits of social networking.

Think Tank: The online eco­nomic div­i­dend — NETT Mag­a­zine, 19 March 2009

Inter­viewed along­side Min­is­ter for Broad­band, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and the Dig­i­tal Econ­omy, Stephen Con­roy and other indus­try and pol­icy experts.

CIOs embrace Gen V real­ity — Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review, 29 July 2008

I was a guest on the AFR’s lead­ing tech­nol­ogy pod­cast, The Scoop, for a dis­cus­sion on the impact of dig­i­tally empow­ered workers.

Social net­work­ing comes of age, sort of — Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review, 24 June 2008

Quoted in a fea­ture by the AFR’s Renai LeMay dis­cussing the com­ing of age of social media tools as a crit­i­cal com­po­nent in the con­nected worker’s arse­nal of tools.

Enter­prise 2.0 — What is it good for? — Aus­tralian CIO Mag­a­zine, May 2008

As the lead inter­view in the month’s major fea­ture, I posi­tioned the arti­cle as a call to arms for busi­ness and work­ers to con­nect and engage in the inter­ests of bet­ter productivity.

I have also been pub­lished in Social Com­put­ing Mag­a­zine and has been inter­viewed sev­eral times for arti­cles on ZDNet Aus­tralia.