Peter Dutton MP are you for or against the filter?

It’s an election year. I am the consumer. My single vote is meant to count. I want to know where politicians vying for my vote stand. I want them to earn my vote, or accept the consequence. I want politicians the country over to step out from the shadows of their mighty parties and their leaders, and stand for [...]

Getting movie tickets shouldn’t be such an event.

This post first started in early 2009, back when the Event Cinemas site was still found at the greaterunion.com.au domain. As evidenced across social media channels, many users were frustrated by an awkward and poorly serviced website provided by one of Australia’s leading entertainment providers. I wanted to summarise many of the site failures into [...]

Education is meant to be about learning

Today, the launch of the My School website occurred. It was heavily promoted, and given how controversial the scoring system and the way schools can be compared has been, it was always going to be a pretty obvious heavy first day of usage. It was very disappointing (albeit a little expected) to see that the site has [...]

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All that glitters is not gold!

Last night a person (yes a real human) made several mistakes. They made an error and then the attempts to manage it weren’t so great and things didn’t exactly resolve themselves as they could have. Ever happened to you? In your working life, have you ever made one of those mistakes that sent chills down your [...]

A tweeterview about The Perfect Gift for a Man

Today I tweeterviewed co-creator of the concept and book ‘The Perfect Gift for a Man’, Gavin Heaton (@servantofchaos). This was a follow up to a previous post about the launch of the book. Yes it is a shameless plug for the book, but then why not. It is a serious cause. Importantly the tweeterview provides some additional [...]

the ireckon amazing race wrap up #irace

Posted by darryl in ireckon on Dec 13 | No comments yet
the ireckon amazing race wrap up #irace
Friday December 11, 2009 1pm After keeping it a complete secret, I set up the staff to compete in an amazing race around Brisbane CBD and close surrounds (detail here). The Twitter stream was recorded using the hash tag #irace It was a stinking hot day (33 deg C) and extremely humid. This didn’t bode well, given...
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ireckon it’s an amazing race #irace

Posted by darryl in ireckon on Dec 11 | 2 comments
ireckon it’s an amazing race #irace
Today for something a little different I have set up an ‘Amazing Race’ around Brisbane CBD as part of the staff Xmas party. There are a whole lot of weird things going on and prizes for the winning team. There will be three teams of four racing about doing weird stuff and using twitter to communicate back...
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6 hours, twitter, a #spill, a spare domain and a bit of fun

Posted by darryl in Misc., This Web Thing, ireckon on Dec 02 | No comments yet
6 hours, twitter, a #spill, a spare domain and a bit of fun
It started at almost the close of business yesterday. Our sysadmin came to me with an idea he was sure I would hate. Keep in mind he doesn’t really use twitter much, he is one of the few in our office who don’t, but what I love about my crew is they don’t limit themselves with...
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Can your business cope without technology?

Posted by darryl in Business, ireckon on Jun 29 | 1 comment so far
Can your business cope without technology?
No I didn’t just swear. It is a very real question. When something happens twice to me in very quick succession I often think it means I am supposed to take notice. I have. So you’d better too! On Saturday while getting some last minute paint for our old office (a couple of quick repairs) I visited...
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Employed via Twitter. Fact not fiction.

Posted by darryl in Business, ireckon on May 18 | 1 comment so far
Employed via Twitter. Fact not fiction.
Today our first twitter recruited employee started at ireckon. Scott Hampson, aka @agent_x, has started with us in our important role as Site Producer /Project Manager. Last year, when the person previously in that role left, to move further afield, we decided to run with our existing team and let the whole GFC thing run its...
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