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If you live in Adelaide, take a deep breath and listen up NOW

If you live in Adelaide, take a deep breath and listen up NOW

I predicted the conversations as soon as I knew the Adelaide. Breathe. ad was being launched on the weekend. People would watch the ad and the audience would be split. Those for it would say bravo, how wonderful, how edgy. Those against would say how stupid, what a waste of money. And then the lame, […]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday May 13 2012

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday May 13 2012

This month on Online Insights we drive down memory lane in Adelaide in full technicolour, discover a resource to stop grey-haired people around you turning your hair grey, recoil at Vegemite’s woes and discover what brand you would be, given your personality. Life in Adelaide I have started a new habit. It is so cold […]

A call to giggling: Middle-aged men unite

A call to giggling: Middle-aged men unite

Kelly Noble, editor of the fashion and events magazine, Glam Adelaide, stated in a blog last week that there is ‘nothing great about middle aged men giggling‘. For the record, it was a tongue-in-cheek post, I think, and she didn’t say they were not allowed to giggle, only that they probably shouldn’t because, one assumes, […]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday March 4 2012

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday March 4 2012

This month on Online Insights we shall see the light, then move from the old world to the ‘other world’ and come to rest in the inner world. Sounds mysterious but don’t fear, it is me and Sean Perry, you will not be spooked! Before you dive into the actual stories, I also encourage you […]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday February 5 2012

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday February 5 2012

This month on Online Insights we explore mind control tricks from the underbelly of marketing, tease out some of Adelaide’s interesting bloggers, get a grip on British English and poke some fun at the lack lustre food photos shared in Social Media. 5 Creepy Forms of Mind Control You’re Exposed to Daily As many of […]

Clean Up Australia from the inside: Advance Australia Dry

Clean Up Australia from the inside: Advance Australia Dry

Happy Australia Day! Today I will be drinking a toast to Australia with its rich and complex history at the cricket test match at Adelaide Oval. And then I will stop. Stop drinking that is. As of January 27, I am embarking on a dry zone until the end of February. I have dubbed this […]

Social Media Day in Adelaide 2011

Social Media Day in Adelaide 2011

Today was Social Media Day, a virtual event organised by Mashable, the online magazine of all things Web 2.0 and Tech. In Adelaide, the key ‘gathering’ was an online converstation using Twitter and the hashtag #socadl. (NOTE: Using hashtags immediately before words or terms in Twitter, transforms an ordinary word or term into an index […]

Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, April 19, 2009

Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, April 19, 2009

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 […]

Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 03, 2008

Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, August 03, 2008

Gary Sauer-Thompson Here is an Adelaide man who is producing and interesting blog, rich with interesting words and pictures. Gary describes himself as someone for whom “Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor.” He says he is a “frustrated photographer & philosopher who has lost his way in life. […]

Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 20, 2008

Online Insights on fiveAA, Sunday, July 20, 2008

Adelaide Green Porridge Forum I have found an amusing blog written by a fellow Adelaidean, Colin Campbell. Colin describes himself as a “Transplanted Scot, with an Australian partner, a seven year old would be Computer Game Junky/Cricketer/Yugioh Duellist/Pirate.., nine year old all Singing and Dancing/Mobile Phone Video Artist.., Spotty the annoying but friendly dog, Ben […]