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Saturday, May 30th, 2009

For vari­ous reas­ons, I am on another sab­bat­ical from Twit­ter. This is not my first, and I dare say not my last. Dur­a­tion, unknown. Frankly, I am bor­ing myself and slowly stick­ing my foot in my own mouth. To fill the now empty space, I have spent more time think­ing and writ­ing. So, for instance […]

US Political Blogger in Australia">Matt Bai, US Political Blogger in Australia

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Join Gov­ern­ment, busi­ness lead­ers and polit­ical blog­gers for Australia’s inaug­ural Polit­ics & Tech­no­logy Forum, brought to you by Microsoft Aus­tralia.
Quick details: Date: 25th June 2008, Time: morn­ing, Loc­a­tion: Hyatt, Can­berra
For the first Forum, Microsoft is host­ing key­note speaker Matt Bai, author and polit­ical writer for New York Times magazine. Matt will address the rise of […]

Bloggers do get Writer’s Block

Friday, January 11th, 2008

U IZ BANND FROM TEH TWITTA.
 
This post­ing on http://on10.net/ : “64bits. More than 2 times 32″ has been in my Win­dows Live Writer drafts for too long. Sit­ting there, look­ing at me.
The topic was easy. I knew I was going to write some­thing about Vista x64. Not that I am the world’s expert: and that was […]

Using your name wisely

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Des Walsh, the doyen of Aus­tralian Blog­ging, is now using his strongest brand: his name.
Your par­ents give you a name. Most people live with this name for the rest of their life. Unless you are Regin­ald Ken­neth Dwight, now Sir Elton Her­cules John, CBE. (Oh, there’s a whole Psy­chi­atry con­fer­ence in that name change alone!)
As alpha […]

Australian Blogging Conference

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Yes, I’ll be at the Aus­tralian Blog­ging Con­fer­ence.
http://www.freedomtodiffer.com/blogoz/
And Microsoft is a spon­sor, too. Which is way cool.
People I hope to meet there include Duncan Riley. See if he’s found out who Fake Steve Balmer is.

Blogging from a Corporate Perspective

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Ques­tions my AIM Present­a­tion Last Week:
 
A big thanks to Stephen Collins of acid­labs for his detailed response. As an expert who speaks to senior decision makers daily on Web 2.0 and social-networking, he’s an excel­lent resource.
 
1. Susan asks: Does Microsoft have a Cor­por­ate Blog­ging Policy?
For me, it’s encom­passed in this simple phrase: “Don’t be Stu­pid”
However, […]

Underdog Blog

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Swollen­pickles (swollen­pickle­do­nions?) rates this blog, and 24 oth­ers as “under­dog blogs.” The art­icle is pos­it­ively titled “25 of the low­est ranked top 100 Aus­tralian blogs”
What’s more, I loved to watch Under­dog on the TV. Now there is a lame-arse Dis­ney movie com­ing in August. Another of my child­hood icons des­troyed!
Great way to link link backs […]

Scoble on Write-only Marketing

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Robert Scoble, now earn­ing a liv­ing deal­ing with PR people in the ‘val­ley, under­stands the dif­fi­culty of blog­ging from within large organ­isa­tions. Robert refers to one of the 4000-or-so blog­gers at Microsoft: David Weller.
The best way to learn about an organ­isa­tion, its plans and products is with a search engine. Mar­ket­ing and product teams are abso­lutely scared witless […]

Tool of choice: Windows LiveWriter

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I’ve been dog-fooding (that is, intern­ally test­ing) Win­dows Live­Writer — for cre­at­ing edit­ing and post­ing to my three Blogs. Install, and it just works.
Tim Heuer’s Flickr4Writer plu­gin is a must-have. A major time saver.
There are many pos­it­ive stor­ies about Live­Writer, this how­ever James Clarke’s takes the cake: Jet­Fuel: Sil­ver­light plu­gin for Live­Writer.  Some­thing else to play with!

Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At the Hill and Know­lton “Sur­viv­ing and thriv­ing in the next dec­ade — Tech­no­logy Pub­lish­ing” Break­fast Bytes this morn­ing, a group of emin­ent pan­el­ists in pic­ture above, from the left:

James Tuck­er­man – Pub­lish­ing Editor, Ant­Hill. New rel­at­ively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online pro­jects later in 2007.
Heather Craven — […]

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