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 […]
A sacrifice in getting things done
A dilemma?
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 […]
Belief and fear: a selection of quotes
“Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.” ~James Harvey Robinson “Life ends when you stop dreaming, hope ends when you stop believing, love ends when you stop caring, friendship ends when you stop sharing.” ~Anon “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. […]
Smile or Die
“Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.”
MacTalk Australia: Good “Hand Feel” podcast
Yesterday I was a guest on the MacTalk Australia podcast. We discussed the nationwide release of the iPad, the newly-released iPad data plans, the latest iPad apps from publishers, our favourite podcasts plus other stuff. You can download and listen to the podcast on iTunes here and don’t forget to check out the show notes […]
Lifehacks for women
You could say I’ve been doing some field research: intensively listening to conversations amongst my female friends – processing and analysing for trends. While that may sound clinical, I’ve found that I am frustrated with common problems that we constantly talk about but never make behavioural alterations to fix. I came up with a list […]
Kate Kendall 