Entries Tagged as 'Local'
Kinfolk Cafe at Donkey Wheel House (May 27th, 2010 - 1,652 views)
It is Day 2 of Kinfolk Cafe and I sat down this morning for an awesome homemade muesli, alongside a Di Bella coffee down at the non-paris end of Melbourne (673 Bourke St)! They have a great space on the ground floor of Donkey Wheel House just over the road from Southern Cross Station, and [...]
Where do the Fitzroyalty go? (November 27th, 2009 - 1,649 views)
Having spent the last few months living in Fitzroy I have certainly scoped it out and thought I should share some of the highlights. The hyperlocal web market in Australia is still very young – but every Fitroy local should definitely be subscribed to Fitzroyalty (I suggest doing it with FeedMyInbox (link to my post [...]
Invisible Infrastructure, by Brand (November 24th, 2009 - 999 views)
If you visit Southern Cross Station at the moment (as I do a few times a week) you will see ANZ billboards and banners all over the place. What you might not notice straight away is that they have also blanketed the area with free wifi – providing this invisible infrastructure that people will only [...]
Bifi = bicycle + free wifi (October 30th, 2009 - 1,385 views)
Bifi was just a glint in my eyes a few months ago but made its debut appearance at Trampoline 2! It’s a simple idea: bicycle + free wifi = bifi! The colourful bicycle was supplied by Mr Indysocks Steve Hopkins, the free wifi is supplied by Sam Sabey through one of Andy Gelme’s ‘Things’, in [...]
Growing web infrastructure with Nodecity (August 3rd, 2009 - 1,355 views)
We often give little thought to the infrastructure that supports the web. After doing a Cisco networking course years ago I abstracted my thoughts up to the higher levels of application development and social interaction, but it’s worth revisiting the fact that without the lower levels these ideas wouldn’t be possible. After seeing traces of [...]
