Obscure Box
Pollies stop Twittering
During the election campaign in Queensland you could hardly hear the policies for all the Twittering from the two leaders battling it out for the state’s top job. Both Labor’s Anna Bligh and the Soda Pop Party’s Lawrence Springborg were using the Twitter website for all sorts of … well twitter. But the votes have [...]
The hands of Anna Bligh
The Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is using every web resource possible as she announces an expected/unexpected early state poll. The debate is open as to who revealed what first, but when Bligh launched herself as anna4queensland on the social update website Twitter last Tuesday is was clear some announcement about something was due soon. Sure [...]
My Facebook doesn't understand me
We’ve been friends for more than a year and I’ve been very open about my relationship. I always told Facebook I was married, right from the beginning so there was never any embarrassing misunderstandings. So why is Facebook telling me to look for singles in Australia (right)? Seems to me Facebook should have a long [...]
Sick of the Flash
When will web designers wake up and realise that Flash is not the ideal way to present information on a website? Here I am, trying to research a story on James Bond when I come up against the website www.007.com I’m looking for information on the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace but all I [...]
Disappointed at Google's street view
Okay, not that disappointed. But rather than all this discussion in the media about what the street view should and shouldn’t show, wouldn’t it have been better if Google had told people exactly what day they were heading down your street. That way those that didn’t want to be shown could have hidden, but those [...]