I can’t remember the exact date that it happened but a few years ago I began my conversation with the web. The web was evolving and worldwide collaboration unthinkable just a short time ago was becoming ridiculously easy. I was overwhelmed by the vastness of information available to me on Wikipedia, freed from the constraints of my hard drive with Google Apps and I could consume the media that I wanted to, when I wanted to.
Savvy marketers branded it Web 2.0 like the internet had just got a brand new software update. It wasn’t an update of course, it was (basically) the same internet but we had learned to use it in a new way. It was more social, dynamic and it was smarter.
Recently I have come to realise I was not having a real conversation with the web. Sure I was responding to comments here and there on blogger’s posts I read each day but it wasn’t on an equal footing, it couldn’t be, it was their blog. So here is my side of the conversation, my blog. It may not be any more important that the blogger who posted his first post a second before mine nor the one who posts his first post a second after. But it is mine.
I came across a post recently that asked potential bloggers to consider when writing content if they would read it themselves. I would like to read about Aussie startups, I know they are out there but apart from a precious few who manage to make it to the front page of one of the ‘Valley influencers’ mostly they are hard to find. So I will attempt to find Australian tech companies doing interesting things, and if you think you are doing something interesting I would love for you to tell me about it.
