Category: Communication

  • Comparing the economic state of the states

    Is the USA the world’s richest country, as many believe? I guess much depends on how you measure that. What about individual states? I’ve sometimes pondered that question myself, either in terms of outright wealth or economic measures like gross…

  • Blogging isn’t dead, it’s evolving

    There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook…

  • Facebook in the mainstream

    How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst…

  • Pummelvision sublime

    I love this idea – a video of photos that run in rapid succession one after the other. You choose the photos and use Pummelvision to automatically make the video. "Pummelvision flashes your life before your eyes using photos from…

  • The trouble with Skype is you can’t rely on it yet

    The Skype outage in the week just before Christmas was an inconvenience to millions of people who use the internet phone service. For up to two days, the service was effectively unavailable to tens of millions of people  – no…