Peter Dutton MP are you for or against the filter?

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 [...]

3 commentsMar 03, 2010read more
Getting movie tickets shouldn’t be such an event.

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 [...]

3 commentsFeb 17, 2010read more
Education is meant to be about learning

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 [...]

1 CommentJan 28, 2010read more
All that glitters is not gold!

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 [...]

7 commentsNov 14, 2009read more
A tweeterview about The Perfect Gift for a Man

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 [...]

No commentsNov 05, 2009read more

Who is Darryl?

The owner and founder of Ireckon….

an internet old hand, a father and husband, a marketer, salesman, public speaker, fanatical rugby and AFL supporter and a student of many things…

When he eats dog food, he looks like this: Darryl as a dog.

My life story is probably as interesting as yours, so let’s not get into it in that much depth here. What is more interesting are my passions and what I do day to day that offers me the chance to meet fantastic people and play in the webisphere 365 days a year.

Since the first chance i got to play online using Lynx and scouring a local university file system, through the launch of browsers and all the way to the wonderous world of web 2.0 i have loved the way technology can provide a communication platform to break down flat world thought and open up the universe to a totality of possibilities.

I get to work with people every day and help them to use the web for their profit (and mine too), but more than that I love to get immersed in how they do business and what technology can do to help. In many cases I spend time talking business not web, but having a passion for what I do and a few dollops of salesman in my bloodstream means I can’t but ask hundreds of questions to understand what people do.

The learning goes on every day. At ireckon – ireckon (yes we use our brand like this every day in every possibly way) I learn 1-100 things every day: about the web, technology, people, staff, me, law, design, me, humanity, love, me, grey hair, books, friends … where should I stop.

As I have been heard to say… I will stop learning when I am dead (although for some that is when it begins), and I will sleep when I am dead.

The web and sleep just don’t seem to go together.

Keep an eye out for my new book!

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