An explanation of NetSafe’s work with RIANZ following the new copyright Amendment Act to give schools some room to deal with infringements happening on their networks

I love awards ceremonies. I can’t get enough of them. Tony’s, Aria’s Bafta’s, MTV EMA’s, Golden Globes, Tui’s, love them all. Love them so much I named one of my children Oscar.
It’s not the red carpet, it’s not what [or rather who] people are wearing, because I don’t enjoy all the other celebrity at home [...]

Does the way we make web pages effect the securit of the web? What can HTML5 do to save us from ourselves?

ComScore today released their figures for the year that was 2010. Its like a compendium of figures from other releases that they have put out through the year, and they have added a few predictions for 2011. I’m a sucker for predictions…apart from the tarot card ones.
There are a few interesting figures in there, like [...]

I came across a post recently linking to a website about USB Dead Drops. In it,  artist Adam Bartholl described a series of installations around New York city, which he called USB Dead Drops, named after the cold war era spy trick (Isn’t that right, Chris?).
Adam describes dead drop as;
an anonymous, offline, peer to peer [...]

Tuesday 14th December.
Sometimes, I wonder if I knew her at all.
Our website isn’t as complicated as Pandora Braithwaite. At least I hope it isn’t. But I know that it causes some people some degree of confusion. We know that the search engine sometimes seems to de-prirotise a page that is titled with the exact term [...]

Tuesday 23rd November.
Its official, she’s got to go.
Adrian Mole was a little bit older, but the problems are the same, maybe Internet years are like dog years. Our website has been around a while and its time to put behind it, its childish things and move on to adulthood. So I thought I’d catalogue the [...]

I was asked to make a comment recently for Victoria University’s student news publication Salient about a service called Pleaserobme.com.
Pleaserobme is a self proclaimed “Hack” from Social Media consultants Forthehack based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, which scans and parses geographical information posted by users of the FourSquare.com service on the four square site and across [...]

If we wont watch them on TV, and we hate to see them in the movies, maybe this is the way we can tolerate them.
If you blink, you’ll miss the product placement.

Signs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNWto0UY&feature=player_embedded#
Proof that viral sucess doesn’t have to be short and whacky.

Having just returned from a meeting of keen minds in the world of web development with a head full of ideas of simplification and accessibility, and reading through the blogs that my colleagues have been writing, it seems to me that the time has come to take a look at how we communicate with a [...]