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Ten things that will change your future

No, not actually keeping your resolutions (though that might help), but the Sydney Morning Herald begins the year with a look forward to Ten things that will change your future. Well worth a glance, and featuring some quotes from and coverage of Web Directions speakers Adrian Holovaty, Mark Pesce, as well as “founder of the […]

What don't you want for Christmas?

Yes, it’s true, those crazy lads Tim Lucas and Cameron Adams have way too much time on their hands, but let’s indulge them in a bit of silliness shall we? Don’t let that acidic Chirstmas vitriol fester in your stomach until it explodes in a shower of turkey giblets on December 25. Let it out […]

Web Directions North – extended early bird ends Friday

To give folks a little more time to organize at this holiday time of the year, we’ve extended the early bird pricing (only $CDN795) for Web Direction North until this Friday only, December 7th at midnight (just before the 8th starts to be absolutely clear).

Email Standards Project launches

The Email Standards Project is a great advocacy and support initiative from the Campaign Monitor crew. Launched today, it aims to work with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. It really is hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the launch of the […]

New blog at the Powerhouse Museum

Just launched is a new blog at Australia’s own Powerhouse Museum – Photo of the Day, showcasing some of the incredible photography created on a day by day basis by the museum’s photographers. Here you will see photography that goes far beyond that which simply documents museum’s collection, or is used for image sales. Seb […]

Web Directions in Desktop Magazine

During Web Directions South, Managing Editor of SitePoint, and long time Web Directions supporter Matt Magain interviews me about the conference, its goals, and so on, for Desktop Magazine. If you don’t have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to Matt and SitePoint. I think it gives […]

The Future of Email Design

Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you’ll understand why they just aren’t going to disappear any time […]

Why wikipedia does not run ads

I’m kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not. It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could be into a commons based […]

Ghost Town – another reason to check out Perth’s ByteMe! festival

Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth – Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content. Mobile locative games are an extension of online gaming into the physical […]

Cricket action via twitter

OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people’s obsessive fascination with the game. An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an unholy alliance between cricinfo […]

Off to Perth again

Isn’t it funny how you will have never been to a particular city in your life, and then you find yourself going there twice in just a few months? I had a great time checking out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good people from Western Australian Web Awards were kind enough […]

Relive Mark Pesce’s Mob Rules at Youtube

Mark Pesce’s closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what’s really great is that Mark has gone to the trouble to match the slides up with […]

First Slidecast available

I’d say you’ve been following the podcasts of the presentations from Web Directions South as they come onstream, and we’ve also gathered together a lot of the slides into the resources site. But something new and supercool has just come online: Scott Gledhill has gone the extra mile and used Slideshare to turn his presentation […]

Make the world a better place, one micropayment at the time

Got wind of a really cool Aussie project today: The Footprints Network. This is a great little system to easily funnel micropayments from any online store’s customers to genuinely needy organisations the world over. There’s an approval process to join the network, but then you get an API that you can integrate with your payment […]

Web Directions Speakers in the New: Mike Cannon-Brookes

Co-founder of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, who spoke at WDS07, [slides online now, presentation podcast to come] this week announced that Atlassian is partnering with Microsoft to enable Atlassian’s enterprise wiki confluence to be integrated with Microsoft’s SharePoint. More details including an interview with fellow antipodean Richard McManus at Read/Write Web. Congratulations to Atlassian who go […]

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