It’s been interesting to see the mixed reaction that FlickrMaps has received since it’s recent launch. After all, it’s such a cool idea, to be able to show on a map where you took your photo, and see what the rest of the world looks like through other people’s eyes. It’s like Google Earth with [...]

As I write this I am waiting for Second Life to download so I can install it and have a play. It’s come to the point where too many people are talking about it and considering it important … I have to go see it for myself.
Of course, I hardly seem to have enough time [...]

I don’t know about you, but when i look at my Flickr and Del.icio.us tags and even the categories for my blog, it makes me realise that folksonomies are not so simple.
Particularly my Del.icio.us account is now so completely out of control that I frequently can’t find things that I *know* I saved and tagged… [...]

One of the great challenges of Interaction Design these days is that we now have a plethora of new ways to design interaction on the web than we did just a few short years ago. Drag and drop is probably one of the best - creating a sense of empowerment over the interface that can [...]

Is blogging a patriotic sport? Do you blog for your countrymen? Do you hunt down your countryman’s blogs? Are other countries experiencing a small explosion of search engines and indexes that help them find blogs of their country in the same way that we are here in Australia?
I don’t know… it all just seems a [...]

It’s been a long time coming and, just like Google Calendar, it comes completely out of the blue.
Hooray! Finally we have Australian Google Maps.
Reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Let the mashups begin!

So by now you’ve probably seen the new Flickr interface.
Personally… i like that all the functionality is more accessible from every page, but the main photo page seems a little sterile now. Perhaps I liked the clutter? I *do* like having the two columns of photos on all the pages now though. I quite like [...]

so, i’m having a bit of a play around with some of the new and not so new blog search engine offerings. There are lots of ways to compare them, but I’m just going to start with one. How long does it take before a blog post is indexed and searchable.
I’m going to test it [...]

So, one minute you’re enthusiastically selling toffees at recess at school to raise money for Fred Hollows Foundation, and the next minute you’re thirty something and can hardly be bothered to vote. How is it that so many of us become so disengaged with the issues that affect us, our families, our community and our [...]

Dave Winer wants you to Share your OPML. I’ve shared mine, you should share yours too! What’s OPML? Well Wikipedia says it stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and that it’s an XML format for outlines. Mostly it’s used to exchange lists of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators. There’s lots more info here. Dave says [...]