Dear compassionate and caring individuals who give a crap what I’m up to, You might have been confused about where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. Well, after eight weeks in the US and two back in Melbourne – I thought it was time to post an update. The post to read for background info […]
US trip by the stats
HQs visited: 11 Google (Mountain View “Googleplex“) Microsoft (Mountain View and Redmond) Pixar Flickr Cheezburger Survey Monkey Klout Airbnb Chomp Whrrl Events attended: 16 Geo-Loco Conference SF Startup Weekend – Mobile Women 2.0 Founder Friday Hacks and Hackers – Facebook and the news: Making journalism social VLAB & DFJ: How I Pivoted to Success Through […]
Women – get into tech
After reading @arrington‘s tiresome, but true, tirade last night ‘Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men‘ on TechCrunch. And then @fredwilson‘s follow-up ‘Women In Tech and Women Entrepreneurs Discussion‘ post, I decided to do a little presentation. It’s a whimsical look at the benefits of a career in technology, particularly when it comes […]
How to organise your own meetup
2010 is certainly turning out to be the year of the meetup – particularly in Australia. If you’re a little unsure of what a ‘meetup’ actually is or involves, taking the literal meaning: a face-to-face encounter/connection from your average dictionary sheds the obvious light. Basically, it’s a gathering of people who come together to connect […]
Drinks at the Golden Gate
I’m heading to San Francisco and the Bay Area on the 19th of July for about month. I’m also heading to NYC for a week or so. It’ll be my first time to SF, so, aside from going to a few conferences, coffee meetups and working remotely on projects – I’ll be playing the the […]
A sacrifice in getting things done
A dilemma?
Weekday vegetarian
One of my 2010 resolutions was to leave my pescatarian diet behind and become a strict vegetarian. I’ve stayed rather true to this, only having eaten meat and fish less than a handful of times in the past six months. There are many reasons why I chose to live this way, but rather than me preaching […]
Give it a go
Words courtesy of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) on my favourite new site: The Daily Aphorism.
My manifesto for living
June 2010 To seek authenticity in all that I encouter To maintain a high level of integrity in all that I am responsible for To question constantly and learn continuously To respect others and empathise with their perpectives To energise and excite the environment around me To appreciate and focus on every moment I have […]
Where should all the young journos go?
‘Online 1984’ mini documentary
Myself and a few others, including Lucio Ribeiro, Jeff Richardson, Alan Isherwood and Ryan Egan, were recently interviewed by a group of Swinburne documentary students about the very timely topic of online privacy. The documentary was directed by Ben Sale and focuses on issues surrounding Facebook, data, users, access and attitudes towards privacy. I appear under the […]
Kate Kendall 