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Groundhog Day is a good day
By Nett Administrator on the 1st September 2010As tech intertwines itself more into my existence, information moves at the speed of light. I need to start taking the long view: the download of a lifetime. It’s not often a movie title makes its way into common use to describe a phenomenon, the way Groundhog Day has. I can’t imagine...
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Simplify, then amplify
By Nett Administrator on the 9th July 2010In this age of information overload, everyone is desperate to push through the crowd to find whatever space is left on humanity’s virtual Bondi, lay down their digital beach towel and bask in the sun. I need a good strategy. It must be the Antarctic chill of winter that’s causing me to...
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Re-evaluating opinions
By Nett Administrator on the 20th May 2010The web is increasingly our go-to place for everything: advice, support, intelligence (in all meanings of the word) and inspiration. Are our traditional bull-dust detectors up for the task of discerning what’s good for us? It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. I can feel a...
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Feeding the beast
By Nett Administrator on the 10th March 2010We feed the internet a lot of information, which begs the question: are we logging on to the internet or is the web logging on to us? The real and the virtual are gradually assimilating. Ones and zeros are bridging the cyber-divide and exploring the molecular world. And as the web gets its...
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The state of pay
By Nett Administrator on the 1st February 2010Online advertising is booming. The more people click, the more hungry business becomes for the eyeballs (and wallets) of the clickees. Could this be the fattest cash cow on the planet?I love Wikipedia - not only does it give me great info to fuel my column with excellent pages like this, it is...
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Perpetual promotion part 2: who you know
By Nett Administrator on the 9th December 2009As my life becomes increasingly interwoven in a tangled web of networks, gaining a perspective of how I fit in has become my life's mission. Network science is very new. Sure networks have been around forever, but no one really stopped to think about just how complicated and powerful...
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Perpetual promotion
By Nett Administrator on the 1st December 2009We're fortunate to be members of the only species on Earth capable of even beginning to comprehend the nature of the universe and to wonder about our place in it. So why don't we do more good things together? Lately, I have become fascinated with three things:The recent discovery of...
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National narrowband not-work
By Nett Administrator on the 20th October 2009Some people say the Government is spending too much money on a National Broadband Network that is faster than anyone needs. In reality, we need more money and even faster broadband. Australia is planning to have internet in 2017 that's about as fast as Japan was five years ago - woohoo!Yes...
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My offline web
By Nett Administrator on the 26th August 2009You've read through the whole of this month's updates and got all fired up about using online technology to build a virtual social network, but that doesn't mean you can give up networking in the real world.As much as we can't imagine life without computers now, for the entire...
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Information overload
By Nett Administrator on the 11th August 2009Let’s face facts: our talent for generating vast amounts of random information far surpasses our ability to organise it. Maybe it’s time to declare information bankruptcy. I'm trying to work out the exact moment when the amount of information in my life permanently exceeded my...
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The monster mash
By Nett Administrator on the 28th July 2009I might be giving away my age here, but my very first record (that's the 33RPM, 12-inch, black vinyl kind, with a hole punched in the middle, then inserted into a plastic sheath and a printed cardboard sleeve, that you listen to by scraping a diamond across it) was Bobby "Boris"...
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Just one click?
By Nett Administrator on the 8th July 2009Things online don't always work the way they're supposed to, but considering how complicated it all is, I should probably chill out more when they don't. I sometimes wonder exactly what happens when I perform a single mouse click. The camera in my optical mouse snaps 1000 frames a...
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Stefan Sojka
Stefan Sojka is Creative Director of Cyrius Media Group (www.cyrius.com.au). He has been active in the digital media space for over 12 years as a writer, producer and strategist.
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