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The Future of Conferences
15 May 2009
The Future Tense program this week have been looking at the changing nature of conferences:
The word ‘conference’ is synonymous with bad food, hard chairs and boring speakers. At least it is for many of us. But it doesn’t have to be that way and, in fact, it’s already changing. We speak with three conferencing professionals about conferences past and future and the way the industry is adapting to meet changing consumer expectations.
You can listen and download the audio from the program or read the transcript.
CeBIT Australia 2009
11 May 2009
I’ll be in Sydney this week to cover the CeBIT Australia 2009 conference and exhibition. It’s the largest business technology event of its kind in the Asia Pacific and I’ll be blogging from the exhibition all week, as well as posting to twitter (you can follow me @tech_stream). I’ll also be trialling the Audio-boo service as well, which will allow me to file audio reports live to the web. Exciting stuff!
Life Matters: To Tweet or not to Tweet
8 May 2009
The Life Matters program this morning had an interesting discussion, and some talkback too, on the growing interest and media attention given to social network tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. One of their guests was Iggy Pintado, a former marketing manager with IBM, and a self professed Super-Connector. He’s also the author of the book Connection Generation which argues that “connection determines our place in society and business – and if you’re not online you’re off the scene”. His dad and son also join in! You can follow the conversation as it evolved on twitter (using the #lm tag) or download the audio from this link, or the Life Matters website.
#amazonfail
16 April 2009
I had it on my agenda to include something in Tech Stream this week about #amazonfail. What is it? Well the # (hash tag) at the beginning indicates that “amazonfail” is a twitter search label, allowing people ‘tweeting’ to categorise the content of their post. It implies that somehow Amazon, the online retail store, has made a monumental blunder (ie “fail”). Over the Easter weekend a story started breaking that the company had removed the “sales rank” from hundreds of books with gay and lesbian themes, essentially burying them from view. Fail.
Twitter for breakfast
9 April 2009
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I’ve found myself becoming a reluctant evangelist for Twitter in the past couple of weeks, and I’m not the only one. Many people in the media, marketing and technology industry seem to be in the same boat. This will change, and in fact it already is as more people start using the service. But being able to clearly define what makes it such an interesting and effective communication and networking tool is still a little hard to do.
Tech Stream 005
20 March 2009
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Technology journalist Adam Turner joins us in the Tech Stream to talk about impostors on Twitter and updates for the iPhone; Bajo from ABC TV’s Good Game reviews the Watchmen video game; we take a world-wide-web history lesson and meet Paul Miller from the schoolofeverything.com.
You can listen to the full program with the MP3 link above or the links on the right.
The School of Everything interview comes courtesy of Future Tense from ABC Radio National. A full interview is online. The History of the Web is from The Buzz and although the audio is no longer available for download you can can read a transcript. It was produced by Craig Liddell.
Australia’s internet filter blacklist leaked
19 March 2009
ABC News Online reports that Wikileaks, an organisation that aims to reveal secret information, today published what it claims to be the ACMA blacklist. The Australian Government is planning to introduce a mandatory internet filter that will block access to a list of dangerous websites. Today’s leak has prompted an internet advocacy group to accuse the Government of making it easy to access child pornography. The full story is on ABC News Online and ZDNet Australia is also covering the story and the response on Twitter.
UPDATE: ABC News Online reports that Senator Stephen Conroy has denied that the official list was leaked.
Twestival
6 March 2009
The first ever Twestival was recently held, bringing many users of the micro-blogging site Twitter into contact with each other. Did you take part? Andrew Davies from ABC Radio National’s new program Future Tense went along to one of the Twestival’s Australian gatherings to speak with other twitter-users about the joy of a good tweet. Download the interview as an MP3 or read the full transcript.
Twitter and the bushfire crisis
27 February 2009
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Everyone is talking about the online social networking application Twitter. Almost every podcast I subscribe to has mentioned it in the last two weeks. Almost every RSS feed I get or blog I visit has a story about it, sometimes a new one each day. I’ve been stopped on the stairs at work by a colleague and asked “what’s all this stuff about twitter!?” So, to me, it feels like Twitter’s time is now.
The Twitter tipping-point for people in India may have been the Mumbai attacks, and in the US it may have been the plane crash landing in the Hudson. For Australians I think we’ll look back at the devastating bushfires that ravaged communities in regional Victoria in February and know that this was the point at which we understood the value of powerful but simple communication tools of online social networks like Twitter.
CFA firefighters at the Bunyip Fire east of Melbourne. Photo taken on 11 February 2009 and posted to ABC Contribute by Mr Bettong
Ongoing coverage on ABC online has allowed people around Australia and the world to stay in touch with the events as they unfolded. But another way people in the communities affected and those elsewhere have stayed up to date and passed on information is through Twitter. Even this week, as fires again threatened homes in Victoria, the Twitter universe was buzzing with updates from 774 Melbourne, the ABC’s local radio station in the city. I spoke with Simon Brown, the station’s online editor, about how they have used their Twitter feed and the response from the community.
People across Australia and the world have donated their time, resources and money to help those affected by these bushfires. if you are interested in donating money you can do so through the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.
