I spent an hour or two on the UNSW campus this morning trying out the inbuilt camera of the Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot phone, which I have had the use of for the last couple of months. I have posted the results to a special Flickr set. The camera was set to ... Read full entry

I have a confession to make. I have not yet downloaded and installed Google's Chrome browser. Shame on me. I've been tuning into the excited babble coming out of various discussions forums and Twitter in recent days, but I still can't motivate myself to "make the switch". I realise that this stance places my reputation as an "early adopter", such that it is, on the line, but my question is ... Read full entry

Actually it's not just social media dialogue or exchanges of communication. I'm looking for a term that describes the ever disparate discussions we have with each other, particularly friends and acquaintances. I'm talking about the snippets of conversation that can take place by way of blog comments, social network messages and wall posts, instant messaging, forums, photo-sharing sites, and micro-blogging, such as Twitter. Then there's the same thing through voicemail, text messaging, ... Read full entry

The crew at Sony Ericsson recently gave me one of their newest mobile phones, the C902 Cyber-shot to call my own for a couple of months. Given my love of taking photos I've been waiting for a chance to try out the phone's five mega-pixel camera up at the nearby UNSW campus ... Read full entry

iPhone pricing and data plans in Australia will probably disappoint those who have been waiting to use what has very quickly become an iconic piece of technology that is far more than just a mobile phone, or a "piece of technology" for that matter. Many would-be iPhone buyers aren't too worried about the technological "bells and whistles", they simply want one, because like iPods and the MacBook Air, ... Read full entry

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you'd know by now that John Chow has redesigned his blog. The redesign work was actually undertaken by Nate Whitehill, and the job probably represents a major promotional coup for his newly formed enterprise Unique Blog Designs, which creates and sells "exclusively designed" Wordpress blog themes. Needless to say John Chow's new look has drawn a range ... Read full entry

A few days ago I mentioned how I had been trying out a little bit of guerrilla marketing, as mentioned at ProBlogger. As Darren says, guerrilla marketing "campaigns" may not result in great floods of traffic, but it can be fun having a bit of a dabble nonetheless. For my part mounting such a "campaign" required very little "real" work, just a redeployment of some existing resources, and taking ... Read full entry

There's been some interesting and varied reaction to the recent redesign of ProBlogger, but the sentiment, "hopefully this lifts the overall standard of blog design", especially caught my attention. ProBlogger is considered by many a flagship among blogs, and due to its prominence is probably the first place many new, and aspiring, bloggers look to when seeking inspiration for their own blogging endeavours. The ... Read full entry