Brad Howarth has recently compiled a list of ten significant influencers of Australian mobile content development and delivery. Following the launch of the iPhone, the mobile industry has become hot property. But this is not a new sector. A group of industry pioneers have been slowly building Australia's mobile industry for more than a decade. Building an industry can be a thankless slog, especially when the idea is ... Read full entry

Ian McCallam, founder of text message voting application SMS Poll, talks to Vishal Sharma about the startup climate in Australia. Starting a venture in Australia (as opposed to your popular international hot beds like Silicon Valley) certainly adds a few preliminary ticks to the "cons" column, but I think anyone will tell you that these days. However, the market is growing, it's slowly getting stronger and a few ... Read full entry

As voted by ABC viewers in Australia. While I only saw 27 of the overall top 100, I did see seven of the top ten movies. Via Twitter and Monica Tan.

Laurel Papworth has extracted the names of Australian bloggers from the latest AdAge Power150 index, which ranks the world's top media and marketing blogs, to form a list of influential Australian bloggers. A few points of interest... BannerBlog, which I profiled at OnVoiceOver a while back, is number two on the Australian list, and Duncan Macleod's Duncan's TV Ad Land, also near the top of ... Read full entry

I don't really get political here but I thought some comments made by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating the other day were worth linking. His humour may have been wry and cynical, but it was certainly entertaining. "It was the Labor government of Australia that broke the back of inflation (in the recession in the early 90s),'' he said. "In 1993 there was no risk to inflation at ... Read full entry

Mike Walsh posts a few thoughts following his "On The Couch" interview with Mark Scott, Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in Sydney last Tuesday evening, and the future of public broadcasting in Australia. IP based distribution of ABC content is growing - by all accounts by the end of 2008, the ABC will have facilitated 50 million downloads of its shows. That raises ... Read full entry

A list of the 50 greatest Australian albums of the last 50 years. While some claim that recent technology is rendering the album obsolete, the best bands are still judged by great albums.

OpenAustralia, a new website that allows you to track debate and discussion in the Australian Parliament, launched on Sunday. Nathanael Boehm who is on the project team, describes OpenAustralia far better than I could: OpenAustralia is a site that aggregates House of Representatives debates with data about the Members of the House of Reps and presents it in a way that makes it easy to see what ... Read full entry

Not sure how I missed this, but Tasmanian web designer Jason Carter has, sometime recently, relaunched conduit to all things cool, TheNews. I've also secretly subscribed to the view that Australia is the world's largest island for many years (largest island sounds way cooler than smallest continent), a point-of-view TheNews also seems to support. TheNews.com.au is a daily update on ideas, products and emerging trends in the intersection of art, ... Read full entry

Online arts and trends publication Lost At E Minor has unveiled a fantastic new look, and is bigger and better than ever, down to allowing readers to choose what colour they'd like the site to be. Coinciding with the redesign is the launch of Lost At E Minor | Discuss, a discussion forum where you can chew the fat on all things art, fashion, and trend. Nice work :)