6 hours ago

Aide-mémoire Here’s a little quote from one of my Gen Y friends on my Facebook wall today:“I won’t ever pay for normal news content ever again full stop. If i wanted to subscribe to something niche likes financial markets pieces etc, then potentially yes, but even then i would discerning. I think he needs to get with the program. Old em (Read More)

6 hours ago

Aide-mémoire see more moar Lolcats. (Read More)

1 day ago

Aide-mémoire The very smart Vint Cerf sharing some of the things he’d change about the internet (via Fora.tv). Fascinating stuff. . (Read More)

2 days ago

Aide-mémoire Stefana Broadbent’s TEDTalk video about her “research [that] shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules” – interesting stuff: . (Read More)

3 days ago

Aide-mémoire I had the pleasure of running into Jim Shomos the other night & he was telling me about his latest project – Mordy Koots.This project is amazing in the way that it brings together so many of the threads of film, gaming, web and social computing. Lots of the ideas that people have discussed, such as the shifting consumption (Read More)

4 days ago

My Clippings on NewsGator Online PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)

4 days ago

ReadWriteWeb According to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a very small number of consumers is interested in making micropayments (3%). The s (Read More)

4 days ago

Aide-mémoire Really looking forward to speaking at the SME Technology Summit by The Insight Exchange on 1 December 2009.There’s lots of interesting speakers: Tim Pethick – Entrepreneur & Founder, Nudie Mark Pesce – Inventor, Writer, Educator, Futurist WilliePang – Managing Director, Search Marketing, Yahoo! Australia Suzi Dafnis – Commu (Read More)

7 days ago

Silicon Alley Insider Google came to Syracuse’s campus to recruit new graduates when I was a senior.  I attended the information session and learned which jobs I could qualify for.  I created a fancy cover letter and resume, crossed my fingers and e-mailed them my documents.  One week later I had an email in my inbox from Google.  Google wanted (Read More)

7 days ago

Scobleizer Twitter’s new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored.But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community.Click through these lists and you’ll see a different world than you would have thought possible on Twitter. This is the order I visi (Read More)

6 days ago

Aide-mémoire I went for a cheese & wine dinner at Bells at Killcare on Friday night with @frombecca and @JohannaBD.The food – by Stefano Manfredi (a.k.a. @manfredistefano) – was wonderful as usual. The wines selected by Michael Trembath were lovely, the cheeses selected by Will Studd were a delight, the venue charming, and our hosts Br (Read More)

7 days ago

Aide-mémoire see more moar lolcats. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Aide-mémoire In this day of LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and Twitter it might seem that networking the old fashioned way is dying. But nothing could be further from the truth.Many real life social interactions arise from these online networks. The old fashioned networking skills actually assist in both the effective use of these online n (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Aide-mémoire Last night I attended the 2009 NSW Pearcey Awards & a few people I know were honoured for their work. These are all dynamic intelligent people who are passionate about technology but who also have put in a lot of effort into building community among the tech and startup folks in Sydney.@rabieburns – Ian Gardiner, winner of (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Blogging and stuff sharing service Posterous.com now publishes real-time PubSubHubbbub feeds for every site in its domain, the company announced yesterday in a blog post about a number of major revisions to the site. That means that real-time savvy content aggregators will receive Posterous content almost instantly after i (Read More)

Kate Carruthers

marketer, technologist, educator, student and renaissance woman