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Monthly Archives: March 2004

Generation Y Rule The Net.

Ever wondered which web site gets the fourth most hits in the world. No. Well I’ll tell you anyway. Neopets.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Neopets the chosen one for a whole matrix of kids, the kids website, with the premise similar to Tamagotchi craze in the 90s, is fourth only behind eBay, Yahoo! and Google.

Now I’m a pretty bleeding edge type of guy, but it is fairly obvious that my daughter Mia, is going to be far more tech savvy than I in no time at all.

I’d also hazard a guess that perhaps in the real world Baby Boomers are the demographic that marketers are after due to their amount of disposable income. But online Generation Y and Z are those that should be catered to, if only because they’ll be so familiar with the technology that playing, browsing, and buying online will be all too common.

Inaugural Perth Weblogger Meetup.

I was thinking on the way back from last nights Weblogger Meetup, the first ever here in Perth, the contrast between it and the meeting I rushed from. In fact the contrast was a lot like the food at both. Carefully served up beer, wine or soft drink, with plates of unsatisfying hors devours, or beer on tap and as much pizza as we were willing to order.

Attending was Middle~Path, Not The West and son, and Still Got Butterflies. Given how much of a geek I am, it’s not surprising that son of Not The West said “they talk about computers all day long, then they talk about computers at night”.

In fact the mix was fantastic, philosophy student, musician, marketing guru, technical wizard, and, well, I’d class myself as a geek, but I’ll wait for their classification. As you can imagine, the talk varied wildly.

I’m looking forward to the next, which we plan to hold at a place with wifi, food and alcohol. Any suggestions?

I’m Slow. Bonneh’s Illusion Says So.

As it turns out my brain is slow. OK, not slow, but my brain switch is. Apparently that means I’m similar to a mathematician in that my brain doesn’t switch from right to left as often as those more artistically inclined.

What the hell am I on about? Professor Jack Pettigrew, Neuroscientist at the Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, has what he thinks can test the rate at which your brain switches, hence determining things such as if you are better suited to math or music.

More intriguing is that monks can stay in the left side for hundreds of seconds, which is the more upbeat hemisphere.

Swing on over to the ABC for a transcript of the TV program Catalyst where Pettigrew is interviewed, Nature for an old article, and Jack’s site for the Bonneh’s Illusion to test your switch rate.

I scored a 2 the first time, and a 3 the second.

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