Last.fm Receiving Nigerian Scam Mails

Today I received an email in my Last.fm mail. I thought this was strange, since I’ve been a member for over three years and not received one. I had right to be intrigued, because when I checked, it was a nigerian scam.

From Sussy Kamara
Note:please reply to my private e-mail box below; ( sussy_dikko1983@yahoo.fr )
private email; [...]

Niche 2.0

Basement.org has an article that sums up my thinking since ETech. Reality Check 2.0 suggests that were getting caught up in our own bubble.

The real point of all this is to shed some light on how we can get caught up in our own noise. Your grandma doesn’t know what tagging is. Your uncle is [...]

Disney Content Has Surpassed 4 Million Downloads on iTunes

I’ve been saying for at least a couple of years that television is changing. In fact it’s next in line to a major shift, like the music industry is experiencing.
I firmly believe that television shows will become subscription based. In fact, they already are, we just subscribe to a channel and time, rather than a [...]

Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?

Woah…….is it bad that I got 33 out of 43 in Cerado’s Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character pole?
I thought it was damn funny, until I realised I know far too much about both

Derek Powazek Interview

I interviewed Derek Powazek on the latest Gadget Show. He’s a very nice guy, with an interesting history in design for the world wide web. He also has some interesting insights into online communities.
I hope to chat with him again soon about the process and repercussions of design.

2web Podcast About Funding a Start-Up

It’s nice being home, and just as nice jumping on Skype to chat with a bunch of good aussie mates.
The 2web crew just recorded its second podcast, hosted at G’Day World, my other regular haunt (The Gadget Show being the other).
We talked about some relevant web 2.0 news that’s occurred in the last week, which [...]

My Flickr Book Available on Amazon

My latest book, How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution, is now available on Amazon. The funny thing is, and a repercussion of being on the other side of the planet to my publisher, there’s a good chance a bunch of people will receive a copy before I do.

Looking for a unique and [...]

Australian Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Every Aussie blogger’s favourite journo, Mark Jones, has some interesting factoids from today’s Search Engine Room.

The story behind the story that 99% of Google’s revenues come from online marketing is that it’s spawned a whole new community of businesses that effectively play the middleman role in the marketing equation. Not sure how to get the [...]

Jim Grisanzio and Attention

I met with Jim Grisanzio, the Community Manager for OpenSolaris yesterday. He’s an amazing guy, with many interesting stories.
He had some good ideas about attention, which he blogged. It’s all about focus, which I aim to improve when I get back to Australia.
I realize that there are many threads going at the moment in the [...]

2web or Not 2web

Last week, while at O’Reilly’s ETech, I received an email from Nik Cubrilovic asking if I’d like to be a founding member of a group called 2web. The answer wasn’t difficult, because I’m passionate about everything 2 web is about.

2web is a group of Australian bloggers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about web 2.0. What [...]