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14 hours, 4 minutes ago Buy nothing day 2008
According to AdBusters it is Buy Nothing Day on either 28th Nov (US) or 29th Nov (Int'l). Perhaps after the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) outbreak it is time to think ...
Aide-memoire - 6:47 p.m. Thursday 20th November 2008
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Internet filtering in Australia
I found it mildly ironic to walk past a church in the central business district of Sydney yesterday to see a banner protesting against the great firewall of China when ...
Aide-memoire - 6:12 a.m. Thursday 20th November 2008
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1 day, 16 hours ago Sometimes Twitter frivolity memes are catching
Occasionally a completely frivolous meme goes viral on Twitter for no apparent reason and then dies away just as suddenly. And since, as is often said, all origins are obscure ...
Aide-memoire - 4:18 p.m. Wednesday 19th November 2008
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2 days, 20 hours ago One person deciding to make a difference
A buddy has really impressed me with his desire to create community and do something positive for the environment. He did a letterbox drop of 200 homes with the message ...
Aide-memoire - 11:59 a.m. Tuesday 18th November 2008
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Imagining Technology Futures - part 2
A technology that is pushing the boundary of what is possible is wireless sensors. We are moving into a time of pervasive applications that will continuously monitor the surrounding environment ...
Aide-memoire - 11:52 a.m. Tuesday 18th November 2008
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3 days, 21 hours ago Uncertainty ...
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." - John Holt How do ...
Aide-memoire - 11:47 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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Imagining Technology Futures - part 1
Technology is moving so fast, we tend to forget that the internet has only been available to us for less than 20 years. And technologies such as Wikipedia and eBay, ...
Aide-memoire - 11:43 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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Why work in IT? 17,500 jobs slashed at BT, Sun and Yahoo!
It was reported on ITWire 16-Nov-08 that 17,500 jobs are gone: "this has been a bad week for technology workers. As the economy continues to squeeze technology companies, staff are ...
Aide-memoire - 11:12 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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4 days, 21 hours ago Next generation of the web & Kevin Kelly's vision
I've been thinking a lot about the next generation of the web after reading Kevin Kelly's posts last year on the internet of things . Recently Kevin spoke at the ...
Aide-memoire - 11:02 a.m. Sunday 16th November 2008
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6 days, 21 hours ago Fight AND listen...
"Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong!" -- Karl Weick The first part of this quotation is easy, it's always easy to fight as if ...
Aide-memoire - 11:46 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
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1 week, 1 day ago Comparing the Steves (Ballmer & Jobs that is)
Went to the Microsoft Liberation Day in Sydney the other day where they announced the Microsoft operating system Azure . It also gave me cause to reflect on the differing ...
Aide-memoire - 8:21 a.m. Thursday 13th November 2008
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1 week, 1 day ago Key Themes from Gartner ITxpo 2008
Have been visiting with the folks at Gartner and if they are right then the following topics will be popular next year with the corporate IT world: cloud computing web ...
Aide-memoire - 2:46 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
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Habit and destiny ...
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your ...
Aide-memoire - 11:44 a.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
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1 week, 2 days ago Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation
Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker presents a utilitarian slideshow on the technology and internet trends in the light of the current global financial crisis. Not exciting but worth a look if ...
Aide-memoire - 2:20 p.m. Tuesday 11th November 2008
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1 week, 4 days ago Social networks & identity, or how do we know they're our friends?
Some things never change. When human beings form into groups we want to ascertain who is friend and who is foe. We want to know who we can trust and ...
Aide-memoire - 8:24 a.m. Monday 10th November 2008
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