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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Meetup: Sydney Bloggers, 24th May

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Hmm, meatspace meeting for Sydney Bloggers. Sounds cool. See you there. Want to find out more about this pig called Babe.

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Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

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