This month on Online Insights we tip our hats to childcare workers, learn to write simply, digest movies faster and dream about stars. Early Education & Care Awards Our girls have been going to childcare for a few years now and I am astounded by how patient and professional the childcare workers are. Every day they have sobbing children to pry away from parents, get all sorts of mixed reactions from parents themselves, need to chase fees...

This month in Online Insights, we discover when fresh is really fresh, have fun with the beginning of everything, unlock a free planning tool, and set you up for some family and holiday fun, geek style. Pop Up Book I think I have discovered the secret ingredient that will help modernise children’s  books and it comes from an unusual pop up book that has been produced in Switzerland. The book is a pop up book that charts the Atlas...

This fortnight in Online Insights, we hear about a stoush between an airline and a big man from Hollywood, access some of the world’s greatest minds as well as the world’s worst clients, and learn about whose house to burgle NOW. As always, remember to email me with website suggestions – sd@stevedavis.com.au. A tale of two plane seats Movie director, Kevin Smith, is at the centre of a little online storm he created after being...

Captain Skellett’s Science Blog Science Week ends today, so I thought I had better mark the occasion by sharing some science sites. The first is by a young, Adelaide-based, science communicator, Captain Skellet, who I met at a Twitter forum I was presenting last week. Her blog is like New Scientist meets Sex And The City meets Pirates of the Caribbean because amid the intriguing science articles, there are diary entries from the goings on...

Beer Wars Movie I talk a lot about wine so I thought I would balance the books here by mentioning this novel event that took place in America last week. A documentary about the US beer market and the battle between small breweries and the big breweries was released and screened in cinemas for one night only. They actually beamed it in to 440 cinemas live and then held a live panel discussion with the movie maker, Anat Baron, and representatives...