Recent Blog Posts
Is Australia Ready for the Mobile Web?
post a comment | posted Jun 4
Originally posted at Man with no blog
A few weeks back I ran smack bang right into the mobile web.
Yeah I know the mobile web isn't new. I have been able to access the web for a while from the crippled bandaid solution of WAP and all its problems, which Philipp Lenssen discusses a ...
September is Conference Month.
post a comment | posted Jun 3
Originally posted at Man with no blog
Well it's coming around again this year, September. And as usual it's full of conferences. The ones in Australia of interest to me are Web Directions South (September 25 to 28) and OZ-IA (September 22 to 23) both in Sydney.
I'm be attended both....
10 Ways to Reduce Stress
post a comment | posted May 27
Originally posted at Man with no blog
We are not super human, the web industry is like any other, we undergo long hours of work with the odd all nighter. However recently with the renewed interest in the web, we have at least in the last 12-18 months, been having a bit of a boom. This...
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
The Bleeding Information Edge
post a comment | posted May 25
Originally posted at Man with no blog
It really makes me laugh that the mainstream media seems to be so far behind what is really happening in the Web Industry and its related communities. Case in point, how long did it take them to realise that Kevin Rose and company at Digg existed...
Twitter Lemmings
post a comment | posted May 18
Originally posted at Man with no blog
It was a little amazing last night (WST-AU) Twitter had been a little flaky, but at least it was operational. Then "it" started, someone was talking about alternatives to Twitter. Slowly but surely people went and checked out Jaiku, signed up, c...
Anyone for a Barcamp
post a comment | posted May 18
Originally posted at Man with no blog
After a few false starts, Perth gets to have its first BarCamp. BarCampPerth is being organised by the Australian Web Industry Association, for the 30 June 2007, 9am to 5pm at Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA.
If you are not familiar w...
Is This The End of Twitter?
post a comment | posted May 15
Originally posted at Man with no blog
It's happened before, several times now, and it will happen again. We have had Odeo, SlashDot, Kiko and Friendster. A new social networking style site is the darling of the Internet world, the word on the A-listers lips. Then they couldn't scale...
Hey this makes it Bold like in Word
post a comment | posted May 12
Originally posted at Man with no blog
I'll admit I have not taken a great deal of direct notice in the development of the HTML5 specification by the WHATWG. I have read over the specification from time to time, that's about it. It's not that I'm not interested; it's been a question...
A Second look at Second Life
post a comment | posted May 6
Originally posted at Man with no blog
I had a play with Second Life when it was still in beta (way back in the pre version 1 days in 2004). At that point it was interesting, a nice concept, you could just build things, do a little scripting, the client was a little flaky at best. B...
The Day the Music Died
post a comment | posted May 4
Originally posted at Man with no blog
Today (4 May 2007) at 13:15 the music died! The last track played out and finished on the Pandora player and it stopped streaming music to my browser. I knew what had happened. I refreshed the page, and I was locked out, simple.
Pandora, if yo...