Benn Glazier [weblog] - Photography, travel, digital media, cricket, electronic music and other rants and raves http://royaltech.net/blog Running well over a decade - talking about good food and drink around town, eclectic electronic music, absolutely anything to do with digital media, throw some sport (more than likely cricket) in and the odd personal experience — as seen through my camera lens. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Strange Light: Photos from the Great Australian Dust Storm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RoyaltechByBennGlazier/~3/I2DZAMl3GfI/ http://royaltech.net/blog/2009/10/14/strange-light-photos-from-the-great-australian-dust-storm/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:21 +0000 Benn http://royaltech.net/blog/?p=1062 Strange Light

Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales and Queensland, turning everything an eerie shade of amber. At its peak, the storm swept up 140,000 tons of soil per hour. In spite of the worst dust storm in 70 years, intrepid photographers ventured outside to document what was happening to their homes, neighborhoods, and country.

Long time Internet geek blogger/publisher Derek Powazek has collated images from the day and produced the book “Strange Light”. Two of my pictures have been featured in the publication.

You can purchase your copy at Magcloud.

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Sydney Dust Storm

Sydney Dust Storm

Sydney Dust Storm
From my apartment in inner Sydney

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The Future Classic crew once again filled out The Civic top to bottom with various flavours of electronica, some deep, some discoey and some techy. Personally, I didn’t rate Isolee’s set – it didn’t go anywhere near as deep as I thought it might. In fact, the whole night was musically so-so, with Simon Caldwell stealing the show.

A slightly odd occurrence on the night -I felt sorry for those who were forced out of the hotel adjacent to the club due to a fire alarm, and found themselves exiting the stairwell into the laneway which was being annexed by the venue, converting it into an outdoor area for the venue – for smokers, and the German BBQ delights. A lot of club goers were quite confused when they saw parents with young children walking through the space.

View the photo gallery on Flickr.

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The iMedia Brand Summit might be over, but the social media experiment has only just begun. Now that you’ve got a ‘proper’ internet connection again, you can easily order yours today.

Remember – 50% of all profiit will be donated to BeyondBlue.

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Here’s a quick overview from study “Fortune 100 CEOs are Social Media Slackers”. It shows how the most powerful CEOs are disconnected from Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and thus are disconnected from their customers.

  • Only two CEOs have Twitter accounts.
  • 13 CEOs have LinkedIn profiles, and of those only three have more than 10 connections.
  • 81% of CEOs don’t have a personal Facebook page.
  • Three quarters of the CEOs have some kind of Wikipedia entry, but nearly a third of those have limited or outdated information.
  • No Fortune 100 CEOs have a blog.
  • Twitter was the least used service by Fortune 100 CEOs, despite it being one of the fastest growing social media networks.
  • LinkedIn only attracted 13 Fortune 100 CEOs, five of which had just one connection.
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