http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog Miles Burke's thoughts on small business, web industry, web2.0 and more... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’ve wondered what has happened to me, and why I’m not online much, the above picture should give it away. Our third child, Quinn Nathaniel Burke was born on Monday (30th June), making this blog post three days late (I did manage to update Twitter and Facebook though!). The photo ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/07/03/welcome-quinn/ My mate, Myles Eftos, recently blogged about this great little app, Wordle, which creates a ‘tag cloud’ based on text that you can upload. He suggested a meme using your blog content to create a tag cloud, however rather than my own content, I used the text of Kevin Rudd’s ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/06/17/apology-tag-cloud/ This really should be filed under a new category ‘Oh golly, I can’t believe I didn’t blog about that!‘ but anyhow… It was announced at BarCamp2.0, a month ago, that the WA Chapter of the Australian Web Industry Association is putting on a conference on our side of the country. Edge ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/06/09/living-on-the-edge-of-the-web/ Browsing through the public timeline, and my own Twitter feeds, I can’t help but feel the above completely fabricated results graph is surprisingly accurate. Don’t be offended, it’s all in good humour. Image: Fictional research graph on tweet topics. tags: completely fictional research results, research, tweet, twit, twitter http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/05/20/tweet-topic-research-results/ You may all be interested to learn that Buddha has joined Twitter. OK, maybe not the real Buddha, but twice a day you can receive some of his teachings and inspirational quotes on your Twitter feed. As a testbed for some ideas I have for using Twitter in business applications, ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/05/16/the-buddha-joins-twitter/ So, you may have heard the phrase unconference, or seen details about BarCamps around the world before, or even better, attended the first BarCampPerth on June 30th last year. Well folks, it’s back on! BarCampPerth 2.0 is scheduled to happen next month, with already over 50 attendees (including some eastern ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/04/22/perths-own-web-unconference/ I’m working on a project at the moment which involves me speaking to a number of people who I would loosely term as a ‘freelancer’. In speaking with these folks, I am finding that the definition isn’t so black and white, and varies from person to person. Some people call ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/04/09/definition-of-a-freelancer/ In one of those crazy meme trends that spread the blogosphere, two friends, Nick Cowie and Ben Winter-Giles, both ‘tagged’ me for the ‘8 things you didn’t know about me’ meme. The rules of this meme are; Link to your tagger and post these rules. List EIGHT random facts about yourself. Tag EIGHT people ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/02/06/8-things-you-didn%e2%80%99t-know-about-me/ It’s with excitement that I hand over the reigns of wrongwrite.com to the team at 18a Productions in the United Kingdom, dedicated to carrying on the fight against spelling and grammatical catastrophes. Recently, I posted here about my lack of time to dedicate to the blog I started last February, so ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/02/02/new-owners-for-wrongwritecom/ I know I’ve been remiss in posting much here recently, with the occassional tumbleweed rolling past this blog, and I will catch up on something to say soon, however I do want to make a quick mention of an important event in the Western Australian web industry calendar. Next week, ... http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2008/01/24/ideas-for-the-web/