Category Archives: professionalism

Relevance of Web Industry Associations

Apr
27
2010

Perth Port80 Xmas 2008

Over the last few years I have really  come to question the point of various web industry professional associations.

Yes, it’s all about member benefits, relevancy, and value for money.   What I also look for is the chances to network, face to face or online, ways to enhance my professional development (offline and online).  Also the validation that you are following industry best practice as well.

Still the most important requirement is a sense of  community and belonging.

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.

Web Industry – Lack of Ethics and Morals

Jan
22
2010

Ethics and morals should be a big thing in our industry, and yet I’m beginning to think that some people have forgotten all about them recently.

I’ll tell you a story.

We have been working with a development company, who support a various range of their own products. Products that one of our clients use.   Straight forward, when we have issues with their product we email their support line. The other day we discover that the client’s site was down, we trace the issue back to badly written script injection hack. Easy to fix.

Copyright is not the right to copy.

Jun
20
2008

Pirate Flag!

The Web is wonderful it’s full of all this content, all this information. It’s a copy writer or blogger’s dream. You just don’t have to do any work at all. It’s all laid out there for you, all you have to do is find it and take it.

Maybe just write a small introductory paragraph and then simply cut and paste the rest of the article you have found and publish. Easy!

Oh isn’t the web great. It allows such theft of someone else’s work. It’s fine to do isn’t it as the poor suckers put the information online so we could steal it… NO STOP IT!