[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] A decade or so ago I was whiling away an empty moment copying and pasting pieces of text from my company’s home page into Google, and seeing if it was being picked up. I took the first phrase of the welcome text (which was placed top left) into the search engine and Google...Read More

[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] I don’t now when it started, but it could have been a valiant explorer in a home made boat crossing the waters to another land, or trekking over a distant mountain. They found other peoples, communicated probably through sign language, and perhaps swapped some products in a mutually beneficial trade. All such...Read More

In the late eighteenth century, the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham devised a circular building that allowed the observers in an institution to keep an eye on the inmates without the inmates knowing when (and if) they were being observed. The design was a circular structure with a tall central tower. He called it a Panopticon,...Read More

Two years ago we had our official launch of the WA Internet Business Association (eGroup) and we were casting around for an inspirational speaker. As the inaugural President, I had one name on my list, the CEO of iiNet, Michael Malone. Anyone in WA would know of his company, that seemed to mop up all...Read More

A few years ago I picked up a stat from I know not where that “after 8 seconds, if your web site does not load and users know where to go, 50% will leave the site completely“. I reckon that is more like 2 seconds today. Two seconds. Reminds me of the highway code saying...Read More

This is the true story of some sad grown ups or 10 year old girls – you be the judge . The conference in San Francisco was over and a couple of Aussie friends and were relaxing in ‘Little France’ (it’s barely 2 side streets) finishing off some palatable French red wine and pate’ when...Read More

We continually see things that would never have been possible just a few years ago. We rarely stop to even notice… A few days ago I was sitting at a coffee shop with some friends, and to the right and behind me a rather hassled young mother hurridly put an iPad in front of her two...Read More

Armed with my Banda copies, I would march into 5B business class looking ever so confident with my pre-prepared over head projector (OHP) slides ready for all comers. The burly boys in the back row were suitably unimpressed as I swung into action, but I ploughed on regardless. Business class last thing on a Friday...Read More

Agh the smell of the spirit, the beating click click click of the drum as you turned it, the remnant of wax on your fingers … I come to pay homage to the old Banda machine (as we called it in England). Invented in 1923 and basically not developing much since, destined to be put...Read More

You and I spend far too much time on email. Worse, it interrupts our days, and we’ve become slaves to it. We even check our messages in the car at red lights (which is illegal – you are not even allowed to touch your mobile device while in a car), and it’s become the bane...Read More