Top 100 Aussie Blogs

Wow. Seems this blog is more successful than I ever thought. CopyWrite has entered the Top 100 Aussie Blogs chart - maintained by Meg Tsiamis over at Dipping into the Blogpond - at an astonishing #44. That places this blog in some illustrious company and makes me feel appreciated for all the hours spent slaving over a hot keyboard.

What Johnny Cash Teaches Us About Blogging

The cover version has always been a popular musical trend, yet covering someone else’s song is not unique to music. Bloggers frequently ‘cover’ another blog post, presenting the same thoughts and conclusions as a way of entering or continuing the online conversation. It might seem odd to talk about blogging in these terms, but the analogy is sound.

I'm Baaaaaaaaaack!

It has been quiet around these parts, I know. September is always a difficult time for me personally and this has kept me away from the keyboard. Now, after an absence of two weeks, ideas for posts are beginning to burn their way through my skull, forcing me to get back to the PC and unleash them on an eager readership. Things may still be erratic for a while, but you may see a few smaller posts slipping through here and there. Did you all miss me?

The Meaning of Success

This morning, I had the pleasure of chatting with Franco Lagudi, the business brain behind new internet startup The SOC Exchange, in relation to an article I'm writing for Nett Magazine. I have a lot of admiration for Franco as he has an extremely principled attitude to business that insists on rewarding the consumer for their own success.

Is this my last post? or "How I learned to stop worrying and love the Hadron Collider"

In the immortal words of REM - "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Sometime today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located in Switzerland will get fired up for the first time and - possibly - will spew out a handful of microscopic black holes. This, say critics, cannot be good for us. Black holes are not the kind of export we usually expect from the land of cuckoo clocks and Toblerone, but it has certainly made people sit up and notice.