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Nick Hodge is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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Email is for old Farts

… to para­phrase the quo­ta­tion below. Thanks to danah boyd for the inspir­a­tion.
(click on image to see lar­ger version)

Thanks to Mark Pesce for the recom­mend­a­tion to the Essen­tials journ­al­ist, Nick Galvin.
Oh, and Fiona Mor­ris had a ver­sion of the photo taken with cats. The cat ver­sions were fun­nier. Behind the scenes: when the photo as […]

G’Day World: Independent Investigative Journalism

Cameron Reilly’s recent Pod­cast “Ex-Gloria Jean’s Fran­chisees Speak Out” is invest­ig­at­ive journ­al­ism in the raw.
Fur­ther evid­ence that non “Main­stream Media” can do deep invest­ig­at­ive journ­al­ism. TPN goes into the same orbit as Crikey.com.au in my book.
The story has been going along for some months and shows Cameron’s desire to find out the story to a greater depth […]

Blue Day, Melbourne

Blue Day means a clear day. I could see the sky. After leav­ing a dark and rainy Sydney, 4degC Mel­bourne was a rude sur­prise.
Up at 4:00am. A cat wandered out, stretched and looked at me quiz­zically seem­ingly ask­ing : “WTF?”

After check­ing the online world, my new res­id­ence, drive off to the air­port. Megan’s bat­tery is stuffed. […]

Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

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 — […]

CNBC Appearance, Videa">CNBC Appearance, Videa

The doc­u­ment con­tain­ing links of inter­est­ing video stuff is also online..Had an inter­est­ing exper­i­ence in mid-November: I was inter­viewed on live TV. CNBC Asia has a pro­gram called “e”; Keith Liu anchors this pro­gram that is broad­cast from Singa­pore. Trial by fire … no room for mis­takes. I think I lost 5 […]