From ZDNet: Internet and email were the most preferred and frequently used channels for Australians to interact with the government, according to a report on interacting with government released today, outweighing calling and face-to-face interviews. Phone hanging off the hook “Internet remains the most frequent channel last used to contact government with two in five [...]
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Algorithms producing journalism?
There goes my Journalism degree! Journalistic texts are characterised by a certain structure that algorithms can be programmed to imitate. The first tests still read or hear like early prototypes, but they’re already around in sports journalism, with finance or local news to come next. In the US, two different projects have started work on [...]
Only 12% of the top 50 Australian brands engage on Twitter
After my Telstra debacle last year, I Twittered my frustration and after MONTHS of no joy with their call centre the Telstra Twitter team (bless their socks) cleared my problems up and I now no longer receive a bill for something that I had never been delivered by BigPond. So this AdNews article comes as [...]
Webcast: Boost Agility, Ten Best Practices
Another IBM presentation on TheServerSide.Net: Organizations continue to spend upwards of 70% of their technology budgets in maintaining an existing inventory of applications, some of which are redundant and some of which have exceeded their useful life, and continue to consume resources without returning value.
iiNet buys Netspace for $40m
iiNet has acquired fellow internet service provider (ISP) Netspace for $40 million. The acquisition will give iiNet a further 70,000 customers, nudging its market share to 12.4 per cent, just shy of what iiNet chief Michael Malone has previously said that he wants to reach in preparation for the activation of the National Broadband Network.
Magazines Use the iPad as Their New Barker
From The Wall Street Journal: A laundry list of open questions about Apple’s iPad isn’t keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week. Time magazine has signed up Unilever, Toyota Motor , Fidelity Investments and at least three others for marketing agreements priced at about $200,000 [...]
Online fashion boost
From smh.com.au: FASHION stationery brand Smiggle has signed a deal with digital specialists the White Agency to improve the brand’s online presence. White’s general manager, Mat Medcalf, said the agency would work with Smiggle to close the loop between Smiggle’s offline strategy and its online activities.
iPhone hacked in 20 secs
Looks like the iPhone has been hacked! And in under 20 seconds. All a user has to do is visit a vulnerable website which enables a hacker to hijack the phone’s entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted. Read more on ZDNet.
Three Levels of REST Maturity Mode
InfoQ: In his new article, Martin Fowler is using the 3-level model of restful maturity that was developed by Leonard Richardson to explain web-style systems. Throughout his explanation Fowler is using an example of a service for booking a doctors appointment. According to Fowler, the starting point for the maturity model is to use HTTP [...]
Aussie social media obsession danger
Don’t worry, this blog post will go to Twitter, Facebook, et al: An RMIT University lecturer has warned that Australians are revealing signs of ‘obsessive-compulsive behaviour’ in their use of social media. John Lenarcic believes that spending long periods online, frequently checking email and accessing the internet even when away from computers is symptomatic of [...]