Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, January 13, 2008
Hotel Drinking Glasses This put a dampener on my excitement about going to Melbourne this week. If you have ever used a glass in your hotel room when travelling, this news report video will give you shivers. As you’ll see,…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, December 30, 2007
Fast Food Choices Program Emily Brindall, Adelaide researcher with the CSIRO, says the main reason South Australians eat fast food is because it’s convenient. She interviewed 500 South Australians and discovered that we visit fast food chains about 3.4 times…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, December 16, 2007
Amazon’s Kindle Taking away a few novels to read over the summer break is about to change is a big way, as Amazon.com, the Web’s largest online bookstore, rolls out its recently released electronic book reader. It’s a standalone book…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, December 02, 2007
Life Hacker’s Top Ten Food Hacks Life Hacker is one of my favourite sites online, and as we start getting ready for Christmas Day, I thought it timely to visit the site’s Food Hacking tips. There are techniques for folding…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 18, 2007
Global Incident Map This is interesting! This site consists of a World Map featuring strange and dangerous things that are happening right now in every country in the entire world – and it is updated every few minutes. You can…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, November 04, 2007
Wired Test edition Wired magazine has been an online icon for geeks for a few years now, and each year they produce their TEST edition. There are 300+ items tested, reviewed and rated in the 2007 edition, which covers just…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, October 21, 2007
I’m Thinking Of You Adele Basheer from Intrinsic told me about this site. Thanks, Adele. A website has been developed here in SA for people experiencing trauma or critical illness. It enables them to be part of a constructed “care…
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, October 7, 2007
Givle.com An Adelaide accountant and web enthusiast, Richard Khoo, has set up a site that mirrors Google, called Givle.com. It is based on the blackle.com site – which is Google with a black background. The idea is that when you…
Media Mirror
This is where you will find occassional comments about our beloved media.
Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, September 23, 2007
Facebook We have mentioned Facebook in passing before, but I thought I had better give it a proper mention on the show because it is gaining popularity quickly, especially among adults, as opposed to MySpace which is dominated by teenagers.…