I’ve instituted a new post category on The Thin Line called “Inside NICTA”. NICTA is, of course, where I currently work. In this category I’ll be writing about things going on inside Australia’s information and communications technology Centre of Excellence, singing its praises and challenging it to be even better than it currently is, all the while being careful not to overstep any boundaries (and getting fired for troubles). RickyRobinson.id.au will be reserved for updates about the particular research I’m working on and the odd NICTA event announcement (again, there are intellectual property considerations that need to be kept in mind), while this weblog will continue to play host to a wide range of topics.
This weblog has been conspicuously quiet on the topic of NICTA, given that I spend most of my waking hours there. I intend for that to change. I want to do my bit to give NICTA the exposure it deserves and needs. I want to promote NICTA as being a great place for people to work, and in so doing, hopefully attract smart and creative people to work at NICTA, thereby making it an even better place to work. However, I also want to push NICTA to be all that it can be (not that I believe this weblog could have a major influence!), and so I will, from time to time, post constructive criticisms of NICTA. In the absence of a NICTA-specific blogging policy, I will abide by Sun Microsystem’s well known blogging policy. I am doing this in the tradition of many bloggers before me, from the Scoble‘s to the Zawodny‘s of the blogosphere. A final hope is that this new post category, in conjunction with the new look RickyRobinson.id.au, will attract potential research collaborators. So if you’re interested in any of the research I do (which you can read about over at RickyRobinson.id.au), just drop me a line: ricky at rickyrobinson.id.au.
I hope you enjoy reading the new Inside NICTA section of this weblog. As always, feel free to leave comments and pingbacks: my intention is to engage the readers of The Thin Line with this new category.
