I don’t know why I do it, but occasionally I read news.com.au. Perhaps it’s a perverse desire to be outraged and offended by Rupe Murdoch’s linkbait or more likely the early signs of dementia. So this Melbourne Cup morning I read that: “Melbourne Cup day is one of those excellent …
One of my first jobs was working for a Dutchman who refused to put prices on any of his products. He would work out the price when someone entered the warehouse or sent him a fax. His principle was that people should pay according to their need – the greater …
Before I got the Veho 360 Bluetooth Speaker my only experience of Bluetooth speakers was when a prankster at the office hooked hid it one in the atrium and played fart noises to startled geeks, accountants, and, telesales jockeys. Hilarious! I should mention that I also had some Bluetooth headphones …
I saw Alan Joyce chat with John Bertrand as part of the Monash University Leadership series. Before the chat I was looking forward to learning how he had the cojones to take on three unions, shut down a global airline, and earn the scorn of politicians and media in the …
I have been reading about Diana Nyad, a 64 year old American woman who has just swam from Cuba to Miami. She is the first person to swim the 177 km without the assistance of a shark cage, and the first 60 year old to swim such a vast distance. …
Election Day, 5.30am: I’m sitting on the back step drinking a cup of tea and listening to the Kookaburras laugh at the absurdity of it all. In 13 or so hours officials will start counting votes and it is very likely the Liberal National Party coalition will be successful in …
Big data will save us all. Or so some technical pundits reckon. Before I go into that a brief excursion into history is required. In 1979 there was an accident at a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania. The engineers had unwittingly let some water leak into the wrong …
Brian Solis of the Altimeter Group has released an updated version of The Conversation Prism which shows both how social media is very fragmented, and also points out the inherent weakness of the term social media. This is business today not something that is exclusively social or media focused. Most …
I was going to write something about how Google Glass is for losers who have to live their lives through a technological veil and I thought better of it. Apart from the medical, engineering, and commercial applications I thought there may be a little envy in my skepticism about needing …
I was never a Google Reader user. Should have been but chose to consume my news the hard way with a spazmodic mix of bookmarks, Evernote, twitter, and other websites I can barely remember. Now I use Flipboard but question its efficiency even though it is very pretty. Google reader …
