Entries from February 2008

TransitCamp: could this help Connex?

Date February 25, 2008

From the perspective of someone who uses Melbourne public transport (Connex) at least twice a day, this is pretty amazing. TransitCamp follows the BarCamp-style of conference (or unconference, whatever that is supposed to mean). It brought together a wide range of people that have an interest or investment in the Bay Area transit system with [...]

Another Connex disgrace

Date February 12, 2008

Now that’s customer service. This is from the pitch-black 10.30pm Connex ‘service’ to Broadmeadows on Saturday night as it heads through the city loop. Otherwise known as a crime scene waiting to happen.

Levels of blogging

Date February 11, 2008

It seems that over the last year or so, the way that we publish information on the internet has slowly been broken down into various ‘genres’ by the tools we use and the output they produce. I’m thinking here primarily about the emergence of text/image based genres, such as microblogging, nanoblogging, tumblelogging and so on. [...]