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On folly, freedom and filters

May 13, 2010

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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 [...]

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Government response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce Report – my thoughts

May 3, 2010

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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 [...]

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Keynoting Webtrends Customer Conference 2010

March 22, 2010

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Only confirmed in the past few days, I can now reveal I’ll be keynoting the Webtrends Engage 2010 Australia Conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Sydney on 21 April. While I’ve not yet really decided just how I’ll address my subject matter, loosely described by Webtrends as “his perspective on the digital world”, I promise [...]

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It’s not extra time, it’s a shift in time

November 7, 2009

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Lyndal Curtis’ commentary on the recent Media 140 conference in Sydney suggests she’s not done her homework. Despite admitting to being something of a geek, early adopter and rich social media user, she asks where we find the time and if we’re missing out on talking with big chunks of society. Has she not connected [...]

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I Am A Geek

June 13, 2009

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Naturellement! What a fine little piece of joy from The Society for Geek Advancement! Actually, it’s all for a really good cause – supporting the awesome folks at Room To Read, who build libraries in developing countries. So, come join your fellow geeks – famous and not so famous – and proudly declare your geekiness!

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Inform. Engage. Empower. Enact.

May 6, 2009

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This short essay is my presentation at the inaugural The Public Sphere to be hosted by Senator Kate Lundy at the ANU on 7 May 2009. Despite living in one of a relatively few nations with compulsory suffrage, the electorate largely remains woefully uninformed about the political process – how elections actually work, the difference [...]

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Crystal ball gazing

March 30, 2009

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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 [...]

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Government 2.0 Camp Australia

March 29, 2009

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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, [...]

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It won’t happen overnight… changing society is slow

March 23, 2009

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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 [...]

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TED Session 2 – Reframe

February 5, 2009

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The second TED session was possibly more mind-blowing than the first. Great speakers and arts. Huge ideas. Calls for action. Gamelan X and ArcheDream Weird beautiful chromatic dancers Very like Cirque du Soleil Online collaboration to bring together Tom Reilly Goes through the TED gift bag Bags made from Coke bottles Lots of very cool [...]

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