Ross Hill

I'm 23 and living in St Kilda - Founder of Coverhunt and The Hive, amongst other things.
I look to the horizon to explore what is next for humans, and this is where I post my insights.

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This blog is supported by people like Steve Hopkins through micropatronage.

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Dangerous Ideas (July 2010)
Transparency shifts the balance of power (July 2010)
Template : Magazine (July 2010)
Circus Oz: See It to Believe It (June 2010)
Minimalist Business, living and working anywhere (June 2010)
Light packing leads to light mind (June 2010)
Winter hibernation with Pareto (June 2010)
Getting Things Done by getting them off your mind (June 2010)
TechFluff interview on the Melbourne tech scene (May 2010)
Connect with yourself while updating your status (May 2010)
Kinfolk Cafe at Donkey Wheel House (May 2010)
Meditation moments (May 2010)
Conditions are right for Kickstarter (May 2010)
Networking Awesomely with people everywhere (May 2010)
Traveling lightly across the world with 35 things (May 2010)
Minimalists blogging (April 2010)
Evan Williams on Twitter’s principles (April 2010)
Networking Awesomely (April 2010)
How to crush it at conferences (April 2010)
Ignite Melbourne #ignitemel (April 2010)
What have you done that’s interesting to me right now? (April 2010)
Solving the problem at heart (April 2010)
Your mobile phone as the chief communications device (March 2010)
Reworking business with Jason Fried (March 2010)
My university commencement speech for 2010 (March 2010)
Working with the iPad (February 2010)
That SXSWi 2010 was a lot of fun (February 2010)
Look to the horizon for your future (February 2010)
Filtering the web of social data (February 2010)
Your Personal API (February 2010)
We have got people everywhere (January 2010)
Let’s play, with experience design (January 2010)
Leah Culver’s web product guidelines (January 2010)
Which stars will you hang this year? (December 2009)
There’s a crowd in every photo now (December 2009)
Internet filtering: Listen to the people (December 2009)
Melbourne Google Wave Meetup Report (December 2009)
Minimal Mac Menubar (November 2009)
Where do the Fitzroyalty go? (November 2009)
Invisible Infrastructure, by Brand (November 2009)
Connectedness (November 2009)
Melbourne Google Wave Meetup (November 2009)
Realtime Human Visualisations (November 2009)
How to run a Hack Day (November 2009)
What if you lost your social network? (November 2009)
Bifi = bicycle + free wifi (October 2009)
Pre-briefing for Govhack Melbourne (October 2009)
Donkey Wheel House (October 2009)
Micropatronage (October 2009)
Embrace searching not sorting (October 2009)
Trampoline 2 topics at Donkey Wheel House (October 2009)
Efficiency vs Sustainability in Climate Change (October 2009)
What is Trampoline? (October 2009)
Inside Google Wave: it’s time to learn how to surf (October 2009)
Your Realtime Cloudification (September 2009)
These ships are going nowhere (September 2009)
Augmented Reality is here (August 2009)
The Survivor Bias (August 2009)
Down for everyone or just me? (August 2009)
Having fun with Everyday Play (August 2009)
Growing web infrastructure with Nodecity (August 2009)
Video is back for the next iteration (July 2009)
Pete Williams shares the Flowerdale story at #cpx (July 2009)
Inside Twitter: Building a platform for the planetary pulse (July 2009)
Cloudspotting for beginners with their head in the clouds (July 2009)
Pick your own editorial team (July 2009)
The Peters World Map (June 2009)
It’s got the internet inside it (June 2009)
Community Action 2.0 (June 2009)
Game Mechanics: Putting the Fun in Functional (June 2009)
The power of the prototype (June 2009)
Show me the people (June 2009)
The beachy desktop wallpaper (June 2009)
Big Omaha – Jason Fried and Gary Vaynerchuk (May 2009)
Mob Mentality on Twitter (May 2009)
Emergent events with realtime backchannels (May 2009)
Connect and collaborate to improve learning (May 2009)
Meaningful engagement is the key to happiness (May 2009)
You don’t need a replaceable battery, or that other stuff (May 2009)
How to create a winning business pitch presentation (May 2009)
Do you back up your most important stuff? (April 2009)
How Eddie Harran got to San Francisco (April 2009)
She holds the Deck Of Secrets (April 2009)
Watching a Yammer network explode (April 2009)
Copy / Paste Thinking (April 2009)
The Hive meets Richard Eastes in Brisbane (April 2009)
Entrepreneurial Ethics: what would Alice do? (April 2009)
Your iPhone is simply a new interface (March 2009)
Be yourself, even when it is just yourself (March 2009)
How to follow an event on twitter (March 2009)
The Hive with Brendan McKeegan (March 2009)
Video production for bootstrapping startups (March 2009)
How To Be Interesting (March 2009)
Make the real world more engaging with ARGs (February 2009)
Peter Williams talks business at The Hive (February 2009)
Where the Big Picture blog came from (February 2009)
Make your iPhone battery last longer (February 2009)
The Nature of The Flow State (February 2009)
Big Websites Start Small (February 2009)
Infrastructure failures a win for community (January 2009)
The making of Coverhunt 2.0 (January 2009)
Following the crowd on Twitter (January 2009)
The iPhone Headphone Mic Buttons (January 2009)
It Is Time To Get Past The Paradigm of Printing (January 2009)
Get a Gravatar for your comments across the web (January 2009)
Social Media Breakfast Melbourne (January 2009)
Done One Thing? Now Do This. (January 2009)
The Interesting* and Hive events (January 2009)
Aussies get good mileage (January 2009)
Simple web platforms make amazing things happen (January 2009)
Is it worse to be late, or a serial rescheduler? (January 2009)
This is how news breaks from now on (December 2008)
Do is the action behind your beliefs (December 2008)
Let’s fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground (December 2008)
Revisit Your Old Flickr Photos with Time Capsule (December 2008)
I will do one thing today (November 2008)
The Rudd Filter Has Been (Phone) Bombed (November 2008)
Silicon Beach Melbourne (November 2008)
Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, in pictures. (October 2008)
Twitter: Fishing for thoughts in the collective consciousness (October 2008)
What action are you taking? (October 2008)
17 Secrets to Finding New Subscribers for Your Blog (September 2008)
Google shows their hand with Chrome (September 2008)
The Future Of Blogging (September 2008)