I am a sucker for sentimentality. Like Clint Eastwood, the stuff that gets to me is the stuff that matters, the non-trivial, the stuff that comes from the heart, the stuff I am passionate about. Simon, my brother-in-law was reading a post I wrote on fabricatedbacon.com about fatherhood and he …
Way back in the mid 1990’s when the Internet was younger and a little more ragged the pundits were saying “content is king”. The thought was that whoever owned the best content would own the web. How we use the Internet has changed a little since, but content is still …
You see them everywhere – people with their heads down, supplicant hands, silent, staring at a mobile device. They are praying to the god of the Internet, requesting that the pipes and bytes entertain them, illuminate them and placate the boredom of being alive. Between 9pm and midnight around the …
Last night I was watching the ABC news and checking our twitter when I was some mention of an #alpspill. I searched for #spill, tweeted something inane and waited for the ABC to report something. It came in the 7.30 report and it amounted to guesswork by Kerry O’Brien about …
I was watching the Survivor final last week and was amused that the evil Russell thought that he had won “the game” even though Sandra had walked away with the $1 million. Clearly Russell was playing a different game. He was playing the big man in town game and Sandra …
Are you a liar? I am. I lie continually. I am like that Jim Carrey character who lies so much he is forced to spend a whole day telling the truth. Lying, whether it be stretching the truth or a bald faced porky pie is an important skill. Federal opposition …
I really want to delete my facebook account. I was enthusiastic about the idea after all the changes the Zuck made to “privacy” this year and then I read this polemic by Jason Calacanis about how facebook is evil and the Zuck has Zucked his way to the top. I …
Once watching the TV was a complete passive act of slovenly consumption. The evening show was watched while slumped on the couch all senses dulled by the blue rays of the box. Now watching the TV is only one part of watching the TV. In face “TV events” can be …
When you’re one of the cool kids, it is pretty easy to forget that not everyone is in the cool club. In fact, some people are so far removed from the cool club that they haven’t heard of Twitter, social media, ecommerce, WordPress, Android, the Nexus 1, or the RunKeeper …
One of the hardest things to do is get a project, a blog, a business or a wacky plan started when you have a job and a life. I have fallen in to the trap of creating great plans in my mind and then finding something else to do. Like …
