@pam_rosengren This is the thing. Adobe’s webinars may well be interactive events with feedback (pace, @vealmince!), but so many are not.
@ApostrophePong Trust no-one. Especially if they’re in your student group project.
@ashermoses Your girlfriend plays “Big Buck Safari”? I could turn… Hang on. That’s wrong in so many ways.
Can anyone tell that my errands got as far as lunch at the pub?
@trib Right. I know where you live and the name(s) of your offspring. You are so fucked.
So, a “webinar” is just a fuckin’ video. I now declare that anyone using the term “webinar” without irony or ridicule is a wanker.
RT @martinbarry: [A webinar is] an online video with someone else hogging the remote.
RT @ssharwood: Webinars are a way to show people PowerPoint and bore them without renting a conference room.
Also, this is all preparation for my panel discussions at CeBIT. This is going to be fun.
She smiled!
There’s something mesmerising about watching that lesbian couple play “Big Buck Safari II”. Chicks with guns FTW!
@ThePlasticAge Actually, I think Futuresummit IS a sci-fi convention. Run by Australian fans of the Dalek leader! http://tr.im/l0vX
OK, I call “emperor’s new clothes”. WTF is a “webinar” and why does it deserve such a fuckwitted neologism?
RT @duncanriley: Crikey subscribers, be sure to read Brian Mitchell’s more than bizarre rant in the letters section today.
@dekrazee1 Radio is now seen as a pretty low-grade advertising medium. Whether deserved or not, I’m not sure.
HOW COME I WASN’T INVITED TO FUTURESUMMIT IN MELBOURNE, YOU PACK OF CUNTS?
RT @Krumpet: Will refer to it as the colgating - gives you a ring of confidence! [Now THAT’S full of WIN!]
Thank you, Crikey! Budget nostalgia: coverage from last year. http://tr.im/l0t4 I’m over the fold at http://tr.im/l0tj
@dekrazee1 Daytime commercial radio has an old audience. Young folk have iPods while they work. It’s all incontinence and impotence.
@Krumpet You wuss! Can’t you say “anal bleaching” out loud?
Apparently I should call a 1800 number and ask about nasal delivery technology. Ah, talk radio! This is your Golden Age!
A vertiable mountain of kangaroo backstrap!
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / lunch / Broadway / unpredictability. Attention reduced.
@theburgerman Thing is, though, I didn’t invent #swanfisting http://tr.im/l07d Nor #badgerfisting, for that matter http://tr.im/l07m
@elerimai Sorry, it’s YOUR fault that I was exposed to this photograph. http://tr.im/l04h
@theburgerman Only the SECOND-strangest hashtag today? Which was the strangest?#swanfisting
RT @crikey_news: Our man in Canberra, @BernardKeane, gives a pre-Budget tour of Parliament House.http://is.gd/yGmg Just like The Shining!
Oh. Australian Budget night tomorrow? How about a bit of #swanfisting? http://tr.im/kZTs
@jmacmullin Re my name, yes, it IS my name. Please see http://is.gd/yXfj for details.
Sen Conroy is in bubble-cheery mode. Talks up Sen Lundy as a champion of ICT in Australia. Please don’t smile like that. #cebit
Jackie Taranto acknowledges Senator @KateLundy for her help before introducing Senator Conroy. #cebit
Rees also announces broadband testbed projects with NICTA/CSIRO to explore uses for NBN. More Conroy-sucking. #cebit
Rees announces formation of NSW Broadband Implementation Task Force, including state’s Chief Scientist and CIO. #cebit
Premier Rees sucks up to Senator Conroy big time to get the NBN HQ in Sydney. Audience laughs good-naturedly. #cebit
If “every event will have a Twitter wall”, where’s the one for THIS event, eh? ;) #cebit
Someone wake me when the politicians stop talking sweet generalities and big-noting the fact that they did their job. #cebit
Rees announces that partnership with CeBIT is renewed for another 3 years. #cebit
Premier Nathan Rees welcomes us to Sydney, “the gateway to Australia’s digital economy”. What a wank! #cebit
“All events at #cebit will have a live Twitter wall.”
“Thank you, Minister, and we acknowledge your great government, thank you.” #cebit
“Innovation is going to drive the economy”, excited by announcement of National Broadband Network. Starting to sound shrill. #cebit
Jackie Taranto, CEO of Hannover Fairs Australia, welcomes / lists “important” people (Premier Rees, Sen Conroy, some German bloke, spons …
Who imagines that these Rocky-style music video intros for a comference ever impress anyone? #cebit
Standing room only for Senator Conroy to launch #cebit. Crowd chatter and cheesy noodly jazz.
Suits. So many suits. Coffee. #cebit
As usual, my name has assploded the database and I’m registered manually. #cebit
Arrived Sydney Exhibition & Convention Centre for CeBIT. Seeking media registration desk and coffee.
Mobile.
@GuyKawasaki I agree, the value-add is “curation” of links by known people. But, for me, that’s just not something I want in Twitter. :)
@trib @GuyKawasaki Of course, others will dislike my stream of personal trivia and weirdness, and wish I stuck to serious things. :)
Fair warning: I’ll tweet a LOT from CeBIT over the next few days. http://twittersnooze.com to unfollow or filter out #cebit tagged tweets.
Tue plan: 0800+ CeBIT; middle-day #secretmission meeting (ssh!); MOAR CeBIT including cocktails; 1930 Crikey liveblog re Federal Budget.
@GuyKawasaki “Just” links is a blog post I might read on the weekend, not something I want instantly via Twitter. YMMV, or course. :)
@GuyKawasaki Whereas if there was more of the Insightful Mr Kawasaki, or WHY the link piqued your interest, that I might follow.
@GuyKawasaki O hai! Re “not human”: I don’t Twitterfollow you ‘cos personally I links without added insight are of little value to me…
@sylmobile Well, one advantage of being up so early will be seeing Sydney Harbour in the early morning light. ;)
Did you know an Australian IT Industry Innovation Council was announced 5 May? http://tr.im/l47V
RT @Wyane: Wankers squared: http://is.gd/yKMJ (“Webinar Solutions”) [Yes, adding meaningless words helps. Not.]
@oliyoung But, flaming people is inexcusably poor behaviour, if that happened. Plus just posting links? Where’s the value-add?
@oliyoung I wouldn’t call @GuyKawasaki posting links “spamming”. Tthat’s all, say, @BBCNews does. But most expect humans be human.
Emerges.
I have an early start in the morning. This calls for an efficient [exit]
@oliyoung I’m not sure that I’m “loveable” though. Others may have an opinion on this.
@agent_x @oliyoung That’s right. I followed @GuyKawasaki for a day but wasn’t seeing a human. He should just use Delicious.
Home can this one cat can take up three-quarters of the bed? And how does he go from washing to dead-asleep in 30 seconds?
@neerav If I’m a rogue agent, then I can take #secretmission anywhere I want? Can it be to Amsterdam?
Gawd, I’ve almost tweeted as much as @GuyKawasaki! http://tr.im/l19K I will resist further analysis.
@neerav I still don’t know where #secretmission is taking me. I don’t think I find out tomorrow either. It’s all a MYSTARY!
@neerav I am but a puppet at the #secretmission HQ tomorrow. I’ll be coming there 1100 after the CeBIT official opening at 0800.
Photojournalism with a video camera! “Frame grabbing: The art of drawing great photography from video.” http://tr.im/l17q
@kcarruthers Oh! Did I forget to organise myself into the “exclusive” #cebit welcome at NSW Government House? Botherama.
@andrewbarnett There’s no significance. It’s just a (to me) amusing picture of a goat. And yes, @EmperorNorton, it’s a diseased goat.
@Rubbachook Re Brian Mitchell’s comment in Crikey about “parasitic” Google, my full response is at http://tinyurl.com/r4rvbs
Home. Escaped from Retail Hell. Honestly, why do people choose to go to shopping malls for recreation? I have new socks.
@andrewbarnett Goat. It’s a goat. And the spots are purple.
Kudos to Dick Smith Broadway. Out of stock, but directed me to a competitor who could help. Noted.
Oh dear. I just used Latin in a tweet. What a wanker am I!
I’ve been having breakfast with @voirol, hence the gap in tweets. It’s still pretty early here. #cebit
Conroy: In Budget, tonight “You will see the foundations and the drive of the Rudd government to deliver in the digital economy.” #cebit
Sen Conroy implies that he was blown away by the ICT innovation he saw at CeBIT in Hannover. This should be explored more IMO. #cebit