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Voicemail is dead.

July 6th, 2008 · Comments

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has it SO right in his article, Think Before you Voicemail. I could not agree more! Voicemail is a horrible relic of the 90s from an era before everyone had email at their fingertips, and it must DIE!
My particular tactic at work is to have [...]

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Tags: Telecommunications

Sensis websites are total shit… according to BRAN

June 18th, 2008 · Comments

This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"
I couldn't agree more. I was amazed at what abject shit the new version of Whereis [...]

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This website is like Digg for restaurant menus

August 25th, 2007 · Comments

One of the people who commented on my post of last week about how the PR industry engages with journalists was David from Webmenu.com.au. If I don't know a commenter I like to check out their website, and I was amazed and delighted at what I found — a website that's like Digg for Australian [...]

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