Blogger vs. WordPress

Having just joined the Aussie Bloggers Forum I’m amazed at the level of anti-Blogger/Blogspot sentiment there is in the blogosphere. I must admit I’m pretty naive there, as I don’t have any major loyalties one way or the other.
I’ve gone with Blogger for the last 2.5 years partly because I’ve found the [...]

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UN Climate Change Conference Goes Web 2.0

Via Mashable (“The United Nations Goes Green–Streams Climate Summit Online“):
“The United Nations is going green in an appropriate manner for its Climate Summit, which is being nicknamed the Virtual Bali Conference due to its green efforts–the organization will be streaming the Climate Summit live, beginning tomorrow and through December 14th. This is part of the [...]

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UN Climate Change Conference Goes Web 2.0

Via Mashable (“The United Nations Goes Green–Streams Climate Summit Online“):
“The United Nations is going green in an appropriate manner for its Climate Summit, which is being nicknamed the Virtual Bali Conference due to its green efforts–the organization will be streaming the Climate Summit live, beginning tomorrow and through December 14th. This is part of the [...]

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Tumblr vs. Twitter

Forrest: Is tumblr an alternative to … twitter?
Mike: Sort of – Twitter is a microblog, which limits you to text entries of 140 characters or less, which is virtually nothing; only a sentence or two at most.
Tumblr falls into a category of web apps called tumblelogs, which do not have character limits and can also [...]

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Elgg – A little help please?

Beware: extended geekery ahead.I have been doing some extensive tinkering lately on our new personal server to install a version of Elgg for testing and evaluation purposes, experimentation with available plugins, and generally seeing how much it can do.
Incidentally, Elgg is an open source social networking application. It features personal blogging and wiki tools, [...]

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Final Thoughts on Facebook

obscene – (adjective) of the portrayal or description of sexual matters
My Facebook post has received a bit of attention of late. Surprisingly people seem to find it unusual that a man would take a stance on a breastfeeding issue – let alone delete his Facebook account in protest – which just goes to show [...]

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There’s something about boobies

According to today’s SMH (“Facebook ban incurs ‘lactivist’ wrath“):
“Thousands of Facebook members are on the warpath after the social networking site removed images of breastfeeding mums and banned others for posting “obscene content”.”
Facebook’s logic on this matter is so inherently flawed it’s difficult to know where where to start on this.
An across-the-board-boobie-ban effectively places photographs [...]

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Call me gobsmacked

I’m really not sure what to think about this…
I was aimlessly perusing the web tonight and ran across some curious links to this blog. The first few were relatively inconsequential – for example I was included in someone’s blogroll who I don’t recognise and have never spoken with, potentially a lurker (e.g. someone who [...]

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MySpace Diatribe

At the risk of stepping back into Geek land, I feel compelled to toss my 2 cents into this.
Courtesy of Mashable:
“Call it war by press release: MySpace will make an announcement on Thursday explaining that MySpace is ahead of Facebook on all fronts. The title: MYSPACE OUTPERFORMS ALL OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. What they [...]

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Too much information?

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald asked “Does Google know too much about you?“:
“Google, the world leader in web search services, is the focus of mounting paranoia over the scope of its powers as it expands into new advertising formats from online video to radio and TV, while creating dozens of new internet services.
True, the Silicon Valley [...]

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