Internet Fridge Image by SplaTT via FlickrPC Authority’s Whatever happened to: the Internet-connected fridge? brought back memories of some stories I wrote in 2000.It was just after the dotcom bubble burst, but at a time when there was still...
Topics: Australian Financial Review, fridge, internet, Uncategorized

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Not only did Australia’s two main print news media organisations reject Amazon’s Kindle book reader, both made their rejection public. Fairfax went overboard, publishing versions of the story in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and on its...
Topics: Australian Financial Review, Fairfax Media, News Corporation, Newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, Sydney Morning Herald, Uncategorized

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Canadian public relations practitioner Dave Fleet believes the Twitter microblogging service has moved through the Gartner Hype Cycle to the point where it will now quickly become unfashionable. In his  Five Potential Effects Of Twitter’s Shift To.
Topics: Cloud computing, Gartner, Hype Cycle, Popular, Social network, technology, Twitter

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Yesterday I heard about an employer who boasts about deliberately hiring down-on-their-luck knowledge workers. The workers are offered low wages (monthly, not hourly), appalling insecure contractual terms and are bullied into working long hours and...
Topics: Australia, business, employment, management, Recession, workforce

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You may have been taught at school that you shouldn’t use a preposition to end a sentence. This is a hangover from Latin and Greek – sentences in the two languages never ended with prepositions.Years ago I worked in the public relations department of.
Topics: Editing, grammar, Journalism, Latin, prepositions, style, Style guide, writing

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