Renai LeMay has launched bootstrappr a blog that assesses the viability of new Australian start ups, and makes a call as to whether they will boom or go bust. First cab of the rank is a review of Streem, a news aggregation site that invites readers to submit news stories and photos, and makes a small payment should the content be published.

Brad Howarth on comments by Mark Pesce and Mark Goldman at the Future of Media Summit in Sydney, yesterday. The issue as I see it however is that there are always two competing forces - meeting the needs of the consumer for good content, and meeting the needs of the advertiser to reach an audience. In the era of free-to-air television the equation is heavily weighted ... Read full entry

I'm been quite enjoying my digital mashup experience here this last half year until I read about the latter day futility of link blogs... oh well. And with a million people all madly curating the web - in many cases, trying to put your link in their curational record before someone else does - getting linked up isn't exactly hard any more. These aren't the days of begging for ... Read full entry

Content producers and students take note; less is more when writing 500 word essays. Mind you some of the "nothing word" examples make me cringe... I think my writing has been used as the examples of how NOT to write. :) Say the assignment is college football. Say that you've decided to be against it. Begin by putting down the arguments that come to your mind: it is too commercial, ... Read full entry

One Post Wonder is a graveyard for blogs especially reserved for those with just one post. I wonder what became of the author of Billionaire who seemed to be especially ambitious: This site is reserved for individuals who are actively pursuing substantial wealth as their primary life focus. Needless to say, this site is brand new and will be evolving over the next few weeks. Watch for our ... Read full entry

Of the Ten Commandments of Web Design, they leave the most important one at the bottom of the list. At least in my humble opinion. Though the slogan is old, it still stands. Aesthetic design can only go so far in making a site successful. Beautiful can't make up for empty.

Traditional media (TV, newspapers, radio) has progressively been losing readers and viewers, as more people go online looking for information and entertainment. In a bid to redress the balance, media companies in conjunction with ISPs, are apparently preparing plans to limit the number of websites that will be available for general consumption, thus enforcing a television like viewing regime upon internet audiences. The entire media and marketing ... Read full entry

Twitter lets staff "trigger nuclear option" on bosses Toxic bosses are running out of places to hide with the rise of instant communication services such as Twitter, and information sharing sites like eBossWatch, said Mark Pesce at the REMIX08 conference in Sydney yesterday. Giving the keynote of Microsoft's REMIX08 conference in Sydney today, Pesce said that thanks to services such as Twitter, employees can instantly relay bad ... Read full entry

Design Artefacts Part 2: Content Inventory A content inventory may seem a big job, especially if the website in question is content-heavy, or has been running several years, but a thorough audit will determine the best way to proceed with a redesign. A structured review of the site forces you to read every singe page, understand the content and talk confidently about the results. By doing this you gather a huge ... Read full entry

The Pipe & The Straw The digital television revolution may not quite create the upheaval television companies are envisaging, or hoping for. While digital broadcasting will facilitate a greater volume of better quality transmissions, will anyone care, or more accurately, have time to absorb all this high-definition content? Especially when viewers have the option to browse sites such as YouTube and pick and choose what to see, and when. There is ... Read full entry