Category Archives: web industry

To use Open Source or not

Mar
20
2008

We all know about open source software. The seemingly endless libraries of code and applications ready to use and implement into a business environment. Now colleague Myles Eftos has been discussing the use of open source applications and there implementations of late. This debate is an old as the hills, but still from time to time it’s good to pull it out of the draw, dust it off and start the discussion off again.

Originating, in a previous life, from a development background I can understand where Myles is coming from and his passion for not having to club together and open source modified solution. However consider:

Government 2.0

Feb
12
2008

Cityscapes

It’s really an old chestnut this one others in the field like Laurel Papworth, Stephen Collins and Matthew Hodgson have all commented at length. However the other day I ran smack bang into the adoption of Web 2.0 (much how I hate the term) by government. It seems to be at least on the table still with various levels of Government within Australia.

Now I have some ties to government but not a great deal. I wouldn’t say that I’m infused in the Government culture, but I still feel that I can comment on a few issues relating to Government and its adoption of web 2.0 and its social networking aspects.

Community Fragmentation

Jan
27
2008

Hillaries Beach

Yesterday was Australia Day, a day when we celebrate Australia and it people of many cultures, bringing together the different communities. At the end of the day I was enjoying the warm sun on my back and the moist sand of the beach underfoot, when I got to thinking about how you would bring people together in the Web Industry.

Problem is we tend to see the industry as one solid mass. In reality it’s made up on many disjointed community groups.

We Need to Get Professional

Dec
29
2007

Spiraling downwards

With all the discussion, earlier in the month, on the way the W3C working groups are made up and operate, the influence of the browser and software producers on the web industry. We really have to consider do we have this around the right way. There has been calls for removal of the software producers from the working groups. Now I’m not going to debate that topic here, I think we have all done this to death at the moment.