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Why your lack of morals might be forcing us into a nanny state!

I have two bees, one bonnet. The first bee. The #nocleanfeed debate / rage is up and running full fury. Thanks to a government that appears to want to ruin some of the freedoms, which have been fought for so strongly over time. I hate the idea very much! I...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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5 Social Media Tips from Folbot, they get it!

Last night I Tweeterviewed David AvRutick, President of Folbot Inc. Folbot make foldable (and consequently portable) Kayaks. I chose to talk with David because of several posts I read about them and also a colleague in Sydney Sean Smith (aka @fatpaddler) who recently purchased one, and used it to do...

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Australian Book site fail, loses the sale

[ NB> to see how Dymocks handled this, quick note at bottom, follow up post to come ] I had a mission. A simple mission. All I wanted was to replace a copy of a good book that was so good, someone has lifted it! The book itself is not...

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The big Mac meal – did you want a PC with that?

If you watch TV (with all the product placements), or use twitter a lot, you could be forgiven for believing we are all about to become Mac users.  Further to this, today I read an article by Mark Nutter at Smashing Magazine, Five reasons why designers / developers are switching...

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Finding the Nuggets, the 13 things I got from SMX Sydney

I often use an analogy of prospecting for gold when asked why I go to certain events or participate in some seminars. In the rough early days of prospecting, people stood in streams, panning for little nuggets of gold, to pay their way. Much of this was mundane, fruitless work,...

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Early wrap up on SMX Sydney

In case you didn’t get the flurry of tweets on my account this week, you wouldn’t know I have been at SMX Sydney 2009. SMX stands for Search Marketing Expo. This pretty much sums up the conference. I have been working in the web for a rather long time now,...

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