It’s amazing how many ways there are to talk about something which is really so very minor. I’m talking about yesterday’s endless discussion about a tweet by Australian pizza chain, Crust Pizza.

Oh and for the record, I’m eating Crust Pizza while I type this and this is not going to be a blog post about how to run a social campaign, the perils of social media or political correctness: no, this post is about how generally incompetent the Australian digital media landscape is with discussing this.

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EDIT: So, it’s all over. Julia is in, Rudd is out, and Swan is Deputy. For the history books, Rudd stood aside so there was no vote as there was no contest. We live in interesting times.

So, tonight was interesting, to say the least. Australian politics erupted tonight with the news that Julia ‘Et Tu Brute?’ Gillard has been back by the Labor Right and others to move against Kevin ‘I Thought I Was Doing OK’ Rudd.

Naturally, with Canberra going to hell in a Spill basket the Twittersphere also exploded into speculation, breaking news and bad jokes. Being a bit of a politics nerd who lives with an even bigger political nerd, as well as others, we all followed the discussion pretty closely.

Below I’ve collected my tweets from the night, many of which pulled in info/jokes and other randomness from others. I think it’s pretty interesting to watch how the storm of information happened. If anyone has an archive of the #spill hashtag from the night I’d love to see it, so contact me via email or on Twitter.

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So, you’ve got an iPad - and you’re now enjoying browsing the internet from you lap and downloading useless apps that nevertheless make strangers on the bus jealous. The next question really is: how much can I do with this thing that I used to be able to do with my laptop? For me, that’s sharing links, and that means I want the Bit.ly sidebar widget in Safari.

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Hey hey. Scroll down to see day two and three of the conference - kept them as separate shows so it’s easier to follow.

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ConnectNow, Round Two… FIGHT!
After the success of yesterday’s live blog, and now that my computer is working again, here is my live blog of the second day of ConnectNow.

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You may have noticed on Tuesday I ran a little competition giving away from DVDs from Warner Bros. Well, the response was amazing, with literally hundreds of entries over two days, but it is now time to announce the winners! As I said in my previous post, there are two winners, one pack of movies on Blu-Ray and one on DVD, and so without further ado, I present the winners:

Blu-Ray

The first winner is Paul Jenkins, otherwise known as @Aeoth on Twitter. Want to know why he won? Check out some of his fantastic entries below!

This one got a little cut off, but is still brilliant:

DVD

Now, the second winner may be recognisable to some of you - he in fact was also one of the winners of the last competition I ran. I used an independent panel to help me chose the winners of this one though, consisting of a coder, a comedian and a poet, and they all agreed that the winner of the DVD pack could no one other than Mick Attard, better known as @MetalHeadMick on Twitter.

Notable Mentions

As with any competition, there are lots of runners up. Below is collection of some of my favourites.  I wish I had more prizes to give away, you all did great, but feel free to tell me I owe you a beer next time we meet! In alphabetical order:

C0uP

Charp

D_Keating

Dain_ger

DaneBraddy

DrStalker

Glasnt

Hsterin

Jane_Barry06

Levibuzolic

MBazza15

Minx_Pinks

Sach33

Once again, thank you to everyone who entered! Hope we can do this all again some time soon, and be sure to sound off in the comments below to complement the winners, runners up etc