February 13, 2012

Four

number four

Delmer has tagged me with the Four Meme. He did a while ago, but I’ve just had time to catch up. Four jobs I’ve had in my life: Trades assistant on a construction site; Tenpin bowling alley attendant; Electorate officer; Cadet journalist. Four movies I can watch over and over: This is hard because I [...]

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The changing face of communications

The way we communicate has changed dramatically in my relatively short lifetime. When I did computer studies at school in 1983 it was all programming theory; we didn’t have any actual computers in the classroom. When I started working as a journalist in 1987 we used typewriters, the office didn’t have a fax machine and [...]

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OzComments web site

I’ve revamped the OzComments web site using the commercial WordPress Revolution theme. I don’t really know where I’m heading with this site. It’s largely an experiment in progress. One possibility is it might attract other authors and become a community site for Australian issues. It’s not getting many hits yet, but the election might kick [...]

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Dumb down

According to my latest check of the web site grader I should be aiming to dumb down this web site. On August 18 the “readability level” was assessed as being 11th grade. This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should [...]

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Blog credibility survey

Axinia brought my attention to a blog credibility survey (Deutsch). It shows that 26.4 percent of people don’t trust corporate blogs, but blogs by journalists are highly credible (trusted by between four and seven percent of readers). Well, that makes a nice change. Maybe it’s an urban myth, but I’ve heard of previous professional surveys [...]

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