On Blogging Australia

Promoting Australian Blogs

Well, it’s been announced - the first ever UXAustralia Conference. I’m proud to be one of the organisers. The inaugural conference is on 26-28 August 2009 in Canberra, Australia - my home town
What is UX? Basically, it’s a contraction of User eXperience - and it takes in interaction/interface design and usability. More than […]

Blogging tips

I wrote the following article on Facibus On Blogging on 25 June 2007. I forgot to renew the domain name so Facibus On Blogging is now lost to me. I’ll republish the most popular posts here over the next few months.
Blogging once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re […]

Aussie Blogger

Ben Barden announced the other day that Injader (formerly Majestic) is now Open Source under the GPL license.
While Ben is from the UK (through no fault of his own ), he does now reside in Australia. After three years of closed development, he has decided to open up Injader to a wider audience.
I am […]

Australian Odd

Sometimes, I am not sure that we “North Island” people are fair to the Tasmanians. We joke about inbreeding and closer-than-legal family relationships.
There is a tendency for people to drop Tassie off the map because it spoils the neat rectangular shape of Australia. Case in point, the Aussie Bloggers Forum logo:

I can understand - when […]

Life

I’m doing Movember this year to help battle some nasty men’s health issues - prostate cancer and depression. I just sent this appeal letter out to, well, a lot of people. If you didn’t receive it, it was probably because I didn’t have your email address or didn’t think I knew you well enough.
Dear friend, […]

About

…just going through a weird patch in my life at the moment - the new job that nominally gives me more after-hours space for blogging has been fairly intense. So I have more downtime but less motivation to blog somehow
C is for Content (the third in the alphabet series) has been half-written for […]