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

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Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff

Like Michael Rees, Kath­ryn Green­hill asked me to list “web 2.0″ things that Microsoft has avail­able to provide some bal­ance to a Mur­doch Uni­ver­sity event.
By web 2.0, Kath­ryn meant: “To me, Microsoft plays really well in the large cor­por­ate ap space and is very good at that … but if I want to show people […]

To a Social Media Practitioner

Today was the last day I will appear as a “social media expert” on behalf of Microsoft. The inter­net and social media is main­stream, and it’s time to move on. And do my real day job: evan­gel­ising Microsoft’s developer tools.
Back­ground
Over the week­end, Chan­nel 10’s Rove attemp­ted to fist twit­ter, bring­ing in at least 1000 new […]

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 […]

Duncan Riley: Officially a Web 2.0 Startup 2.0

@Duncan­Ri­ley, formerly of Tech­crunch, has left as a full­time writer and has star­ted another star­tup: Inquisitr.com
Described by Duncan as a “mix of tech, pop and fark type stor­ies”, it prom­ises a blog that cap­tures the lighter side of this strange web world.
I, for one, wel­come our new Duncan overlords.

Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More

As com­men­ted over on Stephen Collin’s Blog: Dumb decision by our new gov­ern­ment over ‘Net fil­ter­ing. Some people men­tion this is a mere policy dump on the last day of 2007. Of course, the Aus­tralian web 2.0 com­munity is not neces­sar­ily happy about all this talk of cen­sor­ship.
OK, can we then get our trusty […]

Bypass the Bureaucracy, Subvert the Hierarchy Comrades!

Accord­ing to the ABC, semi-autonomous Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment agen­cies must clear their media releases with the Depart­ment of Prime Min­is­ter before releas­ing.
Stated Mark Pater­son on ABC AM this morn­ing, the sec­ret­ary of the Depart­ment of Innov­a­tion, Industry Sci­ence and Research:
“The essence of the mes­sage was that the Gov­ern­ment wanted to ensure a degree of con­sist­ency in […]

Stilgherrian Rattles Their Cages

It is dif­fi­cult to believe any organ­isa­tion lives in the mid 20th Cen­tury.
Yet, Stilgher­rian has found one. Maybe it’s his vet?
There will be a point where us Generation-X-ers start wor­ry­ing about the future rather than the size of our LCD/Plasma screens. We’ll look to our par­ents and apo­lo­gise for our self-centred-ness (whilst under­neath blam­ing the […]

The Immersive Conversation

Think­ing ahead of the game.
Scoble is leav­ing PodTech. Doing some­thing else from mid-January 2008.
In his post he talked about live streaming/twittering and the con­ver­sa­tion that res­ults from imme­di­ate con­nectiv­ity to an audi­ence.
From Scoble’s post:
Another thing that opened my eyes? The Google Open Social press con­fer­ence where I had the only video, thanks to Kyte.tv and my […]

Duncan Riley, On The Pod #9

Thanks to Duncan Riley for a great con­ver­sa­tion today — now On The Pod, on The Pod­cast Net­work.
Art­icles men­tion: Jeff Sandquist in the April 2007 Wired.
“The heat internal being 70x” is a lit­tler hyper­bolic — more like 70% of the heat is internal when blog­ger steps out­side our blog­ging guidelines. Some notes on our Policy […]

Are you wearing a watch?

No: Wel­come to Generation-C