Jon Stribling

How the Gillard and Abbott NBN’s compare globally

Jon Stribling — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:14:40 +0000

There has been a heap of press this week on the back of the Coalition’s NBN policy announcement in a slick launch at the Foxtel Studios yesterday. There were a lot of sarcastic tweets, and a pretty funny Facebook page. Using Akamai’s “The State of the Internet” report from Q3, 2012 I compared the global [...]

The new trolls are better than the old trolls

Jon Stribling — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:55:30 +0000

Australian tabloid news show, Today Tonight is crying foul about being trolled by comedian professional troll, Tristan Barker. An associate of Barker’s told Today Tonight she had been bullied by Barber and the tabloid bought it, running a heavily promoted story about how they had found another victim of Tristan Barker. A Today Tonight executive [...]

Trust, the one thing a subscription business can’t get wrong

Jon Stribling — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:55:26 +0000

In January, after reading a Business Insider article promoting them, I subscribed to the bespoke shirt service from Hall & Madden. They were offering three dress shirts based on Hugo Boss styling and manufacturing for $150. The best thing is that they would deliver three new shirts every three months. As someone who never gets [...]

Start today

Jon Stribling — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:25:28 +0000

Bertie Gladwin was 91 when he graduated with distinction with a Masters degree in military intelligence. Having left school at 14, Gladwin started his studies after retiring in the 1980s to keep his mind active and has since completed three degrees. The tech world is obsessed by the wunderkind, the boy genius who discovers a [...]

Latest Reads: 3 Feb 2013

Jon Stribling — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:42:10 +0000

Here’s a few things online that inspired, delighted, and interested me. Holy Grail of eCommerce Conversion Optimization – 91 Point Checklist and Infographic Despite continuing the trend of very very long lists as link-bait, this is an impressive list of optimisation tactics for ecommerce websites. Whether you’re selling pajamas, concert tickets, shoes or shaving blades; [...]

Monday

Jon Stribling — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:04:50 +0000

Some fiction about the anxieties of Monday You know how it works. You wake, get in the shower, brush your teeth, chuck on some clothes, grab some toast and your bag, and rush out the door. It’s like any other Monday. At the train station there is a man you don’t recognise from the normal [...]

A blog will change your life

Jon Stribling — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:50:30 +0000

I recently had a twitter conversation with Australian blogging royalty, Trevor Young. He reminded me that in the 1990s blogging was called journalling, which evokes images of hormonally confused teenage girls writing about boys and bitchy girls. It is an important distinction. Journalling implies something deeply personal, something from the heart written with integrity, authenticity [...]

Random default thumbnails for Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Jon Stribling — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:34:30 +0000

I installed the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and was frustrated by the stripey default thumbnail that was displayed if a post didn’t have a featured image. Unfortunately for me, this was quite a few. So what I ended up with was: Pretty ugly. So I did some pretty basic hacking and created a [...]

What I read last week

Jon Stribling — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:59:00 +0000

My reading was a mixed bag last week covering digital, business, and inspirational. Here’s some of it: The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks – Businessweek Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar studied how the English sent Christmas cards and discovered that humans can only maintain meaningful relationships with a maximum of 150 people. Read [...]

Bring on 2013

Jon Stribling — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:21:36 +0000

Last year, instead of doing the normal drunken new years resolutions forgotten as soon as the hangover fog disappears, I reviewed 2011 and looked at how I wanted 2012 to be different. The problem with some of my resolutions or goals was that they were not SMART. By SMART I mean Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, [...]

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