Confessions of an Addict

About 8 months ago, my wife and I moved to the new house that we purchased. Now, as many of you may or may not know, when purchasing a new house, your mail box remains junk mail free for quite a...

For several months now, I have been visiting a website almost daily. I thought I might share it with everyone, in case there are others interested in grabbing a bargain. It's called CatchOfTheDay.

This morning while I was sitting in traffic I received a phone call from my mother (don't worry, I put her on speaker phone). Anyway, she was ringing to let me know that my sister, who is...

Be warned this blog entry is full of gaming terms and references.

Hi my name is Vanessa, and I'm a World of Warcraft (WoW) addict. Now while this may have been the call of only us geeks back a few...

I have always been a bit of a sucker for the whole shopping online, it’s convenient, I can make sure I grab the latest bargains, and to be honest, I'm lazy.... I can purchase the items that I want...

I was asked very recently during a silly conversation with a good friend whether I thought I would be able to build a functioning bike (cue mind wandering about said conversation).  My response –...

I was listening to the radio this morning and heard about a new survey that’s just come out.  It says 46% of women would choose the internet over sex for two weeks, for men it’s 30%.  (58% of all...

A few weeks back I was visiting family in Melbourne and my father made a comment about how, when he was a boy, used to hook up a crystal radio to a metal pole to pick up the cricket scores. It...

I have a huge issue with the apparent lack of personal responsibility that has now become so common. We’ve all heard the stories about people suing large corporations or individuals for ridiculous...

I am going to do something yet to be done in this blog, I am going to answer an Internet meme style set of questions. This is a blog, and while its never been done here yet, meme's are a very very...

I was recently filling out a survey on the internet when it occurred to me that these surveys only provided me with a limited selection of answers....Answers created by the creator of the survey...

I am going to explore the notion that bad html can indeed be a trendy viral marketing ploy which attracts a special, light-hearted demographic and achieves mass popularity. I shall provide some...

The key to knowledge transfer has been stated by many as providing platforms for not only explicit knowledge that can be codified and disseminated fairly easily, but for tacit knowledge too (that...

That's a question I have never asked myself. Because when I needed it it was within reach and I was able to use it. Until I moved to one of Brisbane's suburbs.

As a web developer I use the internet...

What do Clinton, Obama, Rudd and Howard have in common (apart from the obvious – They are political figures)? They all chose to use the internet as a campaign marketing scheme and had great...

I used to love MySpace. It was the first real social networking site that appealed to me. I was introduced to MySpace when living and working overseas - by a colleague and wonderful friend who...

A question that has been top of mind for quite some time (I can take a while to let ideas go) is whether you can actually engineer large scale success on the web or not.

One of my recent blog...

I love the power of the Internet, and the way it impacts on how we as marketers can reach target audiences, often reaching audiences we hadn't even targetted, and for very little cost!

I was...

The current online buzz words we all hear are Web 2.0. There is a lot of mixed messaging about 2.0 and what does it really mean. I was reading a good article about the hype / push to 2.0...