Category: Technology

  • Podcast of the Week: Net@Nite

    Podcast of the Week (10/9/07)Net@NiteRating: Net@Nite is a weekly podcast hosted by Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte featuring interesting links, guests and the latest news about the online world. It’s a podcast of the internet radio show which is recorded live and broadcast on video on ustream.tv each week. Net@Nite was the first show on…

  • 5 fun Facebook apps for your profile

    Facebook’s really taken off over the last year. It now has more than 34 million users and Yahoo supposedly offered $1 billion for the site last year. Part of its success is how simple Facebook makes it to stay in touch with friends, but the applications you add to your profile are a large part…

  • Privacy and freedom of speech online

    Public & Private in the BlogosphereI found this survey over in the WordPress forums. If anyone has a chance, you might like to check it out. It’s an interesting survey, not too long, and for any bloggers out there it’s very thought-provoking. It’s based around the idea of “public vs. private” in the blogosphere; how…

  • A strange couple of days

    Let me ask you something. Have you ever had one of those weeks where no matter what you try, everything just seems to go wrong? Well, that’s what it’s been like for me for the last few days. You know the saying, ‘everything that can go wrong, will go wrong’? I hate that saying. It…

  • Is an iPod the latest fashion accessory?

    The new season’s fashion has just been launched in Myer and David Jones. Spring’s almost here and it looks like white is going to be the new black, with short dresses everywhere. I’m a guy so I couldn’t care less – the only reason I like looking at the catalogues is because Megan Gale is…

  • When did I become an authority on Anthony Mundine?

    I’ve been inspired. I’ve been keeping an eye on Alynda’s and Simonne’s blogs over the last couple of weeks, and recently they’ve both been studying the search terms that have brought people to their blogs. Alynda calls it “Google-age” and I’m going to steal that term as I love it so much. They’ve both had…

  • Air by Geoff Ryman

    This is the first review I’ve posted for awhile, mainly due to the fact that I haven’t read as much recently as I’d have liked. But I’ve been looking forward to reading Geoff Ryman’s Air. It comes with extremely good recommendations and has swept most of the major SF awards; it won the British SF,…

  • Why do people perceive you differently?

    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Some of it’s from personal experience and some is just observation, but I remember thinking during my Dark Teenage Years that I’d really enjoy getting past 18. For some reason I had this idea that 18 was the age when you’d be treated differently… not so much…

  • Exploring netiquette

    A few things have been going round in my head for the last few days. The first thing is that I’ve been helping my mother get set up online. She’s used computers for awhile, but she’s never really gone online more than to shop at Amazon and some fabric stores. For the last couple of…

  • Creative Commons Licensing

    I’ve had several experiences with Copyright infringement since my work was first published. The most serious was when a high school in Germany reprinted portions of A Glimpse of the Future without permission. It was a strange situation; on the one hand it was a copyright infringement and pissed me off, but on the other…