The Archives
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07.02.082020 Summit fails Australia on connectednessMy friend, Stilgherrian, has posted a scathing analysis of the final report of the 2020 Summit. He's particularly disappointed with the Summit's failure to address and take advantage of the power of the Internet to build connections between disparate communities and between the government and its constituency. I couldn't agree more. My views on the ongoing failure of government at all levels in Australia to really engage online are public and published here. That said, the 2020 Summit was a real opportunity for the Rudd government to take positive steps in the way it connects people with service providers, policy-linked activity and ...
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05.23.08Wake up!This post started as a comment on my friend, Lee Hopkins' post, The state of comms in corporate Australia. Then I thought I had enough to say that it needed to be here. So here it is. Corporate and public sector Australia, it's time to wake up! The benefits of using social media in a business setting are many and well researched, yet you seem not to have realised. You are falling behind your overseas counterparts and you are experiencing a brain drain the likes of which you have never seen before. As evangelists like me and Lee encounter resistance to these ...
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05.21.08What a difference a week makesThe past two weeks, I've attended two one-day (well, one evening and an all-day) conferences that couldn't have been further apart in the reaction they drew from me. The first was Interesting South on 12 May and then on Monday this week, Web Directions South Government. Both conferences were run extremely professionally by great teams. The content at both was largely really well selected by the organisers and well presented by the speakers. But the audience and the "buzz" at each was worlds different. The good news first. Let's talk about Interesting South. Based on the London Interesting, Interesting South was an eclectic ...
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05.05.08Tuning outDigital music and digital rights management has been a bone of contention for several years now. The music labels continually cry foul as they allege that illegal music downloads are doing them irreparable harm while well-founded research seems to indicate the opposite. My personal opinion is that DRM, as envisaged by the labels and generally executed is broken - it stops me getting access to the music I want to listen to in the way I want. It's either restricted in place for listening (CD, limited number of computers, etc.) or restricted in format (tried getting iTunes bought music out of ...
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05.04.08Another Schmap photoIt's a small thing, but another of my photos has been chosen for inclusion in a Schmap travel guide. This time, it's the guide for Australia (link to my pic and page), and the photo they've used is for Floriade, an internationally recognised Spring flower festival held in my town, Canberra every September.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Another Schmap photo", url: "http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/05/04/another-schmap-photo/" });
