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Ross Dawson
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Ross Dawson's personal blog at rossdawsonblog.com covers business and career. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on technology and society, covering automation, basic income, humanization work, and Google's shift toward social search. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read articles by keynote speaker, futurist, author and strategy advisor Ross Dawson.
Most-linked posts?
- Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-18
What Hacker News says?
"... I marked Omnidrive as deadpool in CrunchBase, and it isn't uncommon for Techcrunch to not cover a story that has been covered elsewhere, esp since Mike was an investor and was wary of conflicts ..." My tone is skeptical Nik because I read stories, information and posts with my BS detection at maximum when I detect ambiguity. I'm interested in ambiguous stories because it's possible to find in them both the trut…
Comment linking /weblog/archives/2008/06
on “Why TechCrunch is over”Submitted SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlthough I don't like the way Google is starting to control too much online, I believe that using the social network and other information to influence search and other services is the future. Google’s move towards social search could be the most significant change in the way we use the web since the beginning of Google itself. Consider that with this move, Google is actually moving away from their flagship Pagerank…
Comment linking /weblog/archives/2011/08/breaking-google-will-be-a-reputation-engine.html
on “Google is FUBAR”Submitted The REAL transformative package: iPad plus wireless keyboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> We are continually being pushed into the territory that distinguishes us from machines: emotion, relationships, synthesis, abstraction, beauty, art, meaning, and more. Our future depends on the humanization work: http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2013/02/our-future... We still have the idea of a discrete education, that once we obtain a skill, we can be employable using that skill. Such specialization is n…
Comment linking /weblog/archives/2013/02/our-future-depends-on-the-humanization-of-work.html
on “Basic income as an answer to all out automation”Submitted Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting tid-bit. Omni was listed in the top 100 web2.0 software companies in Australia ~ http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2008/06/official_l... and listed in a local biz mag ~ http://www.brw.com.au/searchresult.aspx?search=Top+100+Web+2... So I contacted a Journalist, Renai LeMay ~ http://twitter.com/bootload/statuses/850502396 at ZDNet Aus who had direct knowledge of the list ( I forget how, I think he…
Comment linking /weblog/archives/2008/06/official_launch.html
on “Omnidrive - Is This The Sad End?”Submitted Web 2.0 Framework diagrams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global insights: Fear of failure and entrepreneurial activity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early insights from the Top 100 Australian Web2 Applications list as a story · 1 points
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