The other week, an article written in 1995 by Clifford Stoll who – in short – could see no future for the internet, resurfaced.
While events obviously took a different course, Stoll’s words started me wondering about a world without an internet, and what our lives in 2010 might be like in the absence of [...]

Fantastic, popular web services and sites represented as vintage book covers.

Even Twitter has been caught up in the fallout of the ongoing political turmoil in New South Wales (NSW), with the erasure of over 330 tweets from the @premierofnsw’s Twitter page, coinciding with the NSW Labor government’s leadership change last week.
Prior to the leadership tussle, former Premier Nathan Rees, or his staffers, had notched up [...]

Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day, a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards.
If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your Facebook or Twitter [...]

Changes in methods of communication, which have become more immediate and direct by way of social media and networks, will increasingly change the way we work, and look for work, with today’s high-school students appearing to be well-equipped to negotiate future working environments.
One of their distinguishing characteristics is their extraordinary ability to multi-task and do [...]

Did You Know 4.0. While it’s easy to get your message out there, is anyone hearing it?
Convergence is everywhere. It’s easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it.

Via Drew McLellan.

Advances in technology and the advent of the web and social media have greatly expanded the number of channels available to businesses to market and promote themselves since the 1980s.

Gavin Heaton, aka the Servant of Chaos, has assembled 300 social media savvy writers to contribute to the third edition of The Age of Conversation.
Much has changed in the last two years. New platforms, tools and approaches have been tried. Some remain, many have fallen by the wayside. Businesses, public and private organisations [...]

A hierarchical representation of digital technologies (larger graphic) and the degree to which they will distract us from our work, as well as themselves.
For example an incoming SMS message will take our attention off an email we are reading, while anything an iPhone does (incoming call, Twitter status updates, etc) will distract us from [...]

ActionAid Australia is looking to send Australian bloggers to developing countries to establish “blog outposts”, whereby the web savvy can pass on their knowledge and skills to locals interested in blogging and social media.
Using blogs, Twitter, Facebook and more, the outreach blogger will travel to one of ActionAid’s program countries to help locals harness the [...]