Category Archives: musing

Categorising the Web Industry

Mar
1
2010

Rebirth

Where does the the web industry fit in the world. You would think that after 15 plus years that we would have worked that out by now and found our place. But alas this isn’t the case. I still ponder what category should we sit under in a corporate or business structure, let alone what role we should all be.

Something that really frustrates me, is when you go to fill in a survey and they list off the industry types. I’m always very confused where do I put myself, my business. Which one of the categories do I choose.

12 Reasons to Volunteer Your Time to Your Community

Jul
17
2009

Hillaries Beach

I have volunteered and helped out a good number of professional, sporting and community groups over the years;  up till now I have never really questioned why I do it. I guess it’s just the drive to make a difference.  Now with my 2 year stint as the Treasurer of the Australian Web Industry Association coming to a close maybe it’s time to reflect on why I nominate myself for such things and what the benefits of volunteering for your community are:

For the Love of Type

Jun
13
2009

Typeface from Books circa 1870

Sometimes you come across something that you just have to share.   The other day I got the chance to go back in time.  Back in the past, to feel and  to see something of raw beauty that I personally have not experienced before.

Im talking about  the work that I found in an exercise book and the craftsmanship in some Victorian era books.

The work in the school exercise book was lovely completed by a middle class Irish 10 year old, under English rule at the time.  Those 03 dates on this work are not from 2002, but 1902, all the way back to the Edwardian era.

Freelancers Coffee

May
3
2009

Pen Cafe

Now Perth can be busy place, with lots of professional networking events every month, seems that there are even more now with this financial hiccup, as people scramble for those networking contacts.

Funny thing is that most of the new ones  now want to sell me something or get me to join some exclusive networking group that will bring me riches and world domination by afternoon teatime.  All I have to do is just sign over a few thousand dollars a year and  feed thew group them all my business contacts for good measure.   Now I don’t know about you but the only bugger getting rich here is the person that set that scheme up in the first place.  Pyramid anyone, just without money.