There has been a heap of press this week on the back of the Coalition’s NBN policy announcement in a slick launch at the Foxtel Studios yesterday. There were a lot of sarcastic tweets, and a pretty funny Facebook page. Using Akamai’s “The State of the Internet” report from Q3, …
Australian tabloid news show, Today Tonight is crying foul about being trolled by comedian professional troll, Tristan Barker. An associate of Barker’s told Today Tonight she had been bullied by Barber and the tabloid bought it, running a heavily promoted story about how they had found another victim of Tristan …
In January, after reading a Business Insider article promoting them, I subscribed to the bespoke shirt service from Hall & Madden. They were offering three dress shirts based on Hugo Boss styling and manufacturing for $150. The best thing is that they would deliver three new shirts every three months. …
Bertie Gladwin was 91 when he graduated with distinction with a Masters degree in military intelligence. Having left school at 14, Gladwin started his studies after retiring in the 1980s to keep his mind active and has since completed three degrees. The tech world is obsessed by the wunderkind, the …
Here’s a few things online that inspired, delighted, and interested me. Holy Grail of eCommerce Conversion Optimization – 91 Point Checklist and Infographic Despite continuing the trend of very very long lists as link-bait, this is an impressive list of optimisation tactics for ecommerce websites. Whether you’re selling pajamas, concert …
A mate of mine living in Amsterdam, was sick of being a highly paid IT contractor so he decided to start a business from his lounge room with his MacBook Air. Despite having no web design or development skills, it would be an online business. Nine months down the track …
Some fiction about the anxieties of Monday You know how it works. You wake, get in the shower, brush your teeth, chuck on some clothes, grab some toast and your bag, and rush out the door. It’s like any other Monday. At the train station there is a man you …
I recently had a twitter conversation with Australian blogging royalty, Trevor Young. He reminded me that in the 1990s blogging was called journalling, which evokes images of hormonally confused teenage girls writing about boys and bitchy girls. It is an important distinction. Journalling implies something deeply personal, something from the …
I installed the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and was frustrated by the stripey default thumbnail that was displayed if a post didn’t have a featured image. Unfortunately for me, this was quite a few. So what I ended up with was: Pretty ugly. So I did some pretty …
My reading was a mixed bag last week covering digital, business, and inspirational. Here’s some of it: The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks – Businessweek Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar studied how the English sent Christmas cards and discovered that humans can only maintain meaningful relationships with a …
