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Mark Pesce, Only Connect

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Hyper­em­power­ment. The theme of Mark Pesce’s open­ing key­note at Microsoft Australia’s ReMIX 2008, ‘Only Connect’

Now avail­able in video form, and tex­tual form.


Written by Nick Hodge

May 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

AURemix08 is Here!

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New Silverlight App

Aus­tralian ReMIX08 is here! Sydney is first today. Mel­bourne in two days time.

And the little Quok­kas will make a small appear­ance in the the key­note. Watch closely, or you will miss them!

Fol­low me on twit­ter, or the hashtag #aure­mix for all the news if you are out there in the intarwebs.

If you are attend­ing, ensure you intro­duce yourself.

Written by Nick Hodge

May 20th, 2008 at 1:25 am

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DG’s New Toy

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DG's New Toy

Every quokka loves a new laptop. Even when the laptop is twice your weight, height and width.

Written by Nick Hodge

May 6th, 2008 at 7:04 am

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DG and Maurice at CodeCampOZ

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Written by Nick Hodge

April 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am

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DG Gets his Mesh on!

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quokka-mesh-shirt

DG gets into the Live Mesh craze.

Written by Nick Hodge

April 25th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

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quokka.two: LOLCODE Contractor

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lolcode contractor

DG hires a wizened LOLCODE con­tractor to com­plete the low-level code for a new web site.

Written by Nick Hodge

April 17th, 2008 at 10:28 am

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Mark Pesce: Keynoting Australian ReMIX 2008

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Taking down Conservapedia

Credit: Dar­ren Sharp

This year’s key­note speaker at Australia’s second ReMIX is Mark Pesce. Like LOLCODE, Mark has his own, well deserved Wiki­pe­dia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce

Aus­trali­ans in the inter­net com­munity would recog­nise Mark from his copi­ous writ­ings on free­dom, email, free/meshed wire­less. He is a thought leader amongst thought lead­ers in this web-centric world.

I’ve seen Mark present at vari­ous con­fer­ences through 2007, and have also enjoyed his writ­ings. At ReMIX, Mark will be elev­at­ing our ima­gin­a­tions to a higher plane: what may this highly con­nec­ted future look like?

Microsoft know Mark is going to provide some thought pro­vok­ing insights.

 

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Written by Nick Hodge

April 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

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quokka.two: lamingtons + quokka-cola

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lamingtons

DG is get­ting his Developer track ready for the second Aus­tralian ReMIX. Fueled by lam­ing­tons and Quokka-Cola, there is a storm of XAML building.

Seats are going fast! Book today!

Written by Nick Hodge

April 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

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Tips and Techniques for Presentations

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BarCamp Sydney

(photo by JJ)

As presen­ted at BarcampSydney3: 

  • Ima­gine the best presenter/presentation you have seen
    • This per­son has prac­tised more than once.
    • plan for the worst case scen­ario (no pro­jector, laptop nor audience)
  • know audi­ence, topic, environment
    • If you are not com­fort­able wit the topic, don’t present it
  • Theatre
    • pro­ject­ing your voice: always stand
    • volume levels: for any audi­ence above 4 people, you need to turn it up a little bit
    • break­ing the fourth wall (that is, walk and talk into the audience)
    • Use props.
    • hot vs cold liquids: care­ful with water as it tight­ens the vocal chords
  • emo­tional connection
    • Emo­tional pro­jec­tion: like voice volume, you need to turn it up a few notches to make an impact 
    • tell stor­ies: humans have brains wired to remem­ber stor­ies and retell them
    • audi­ence involve­ment: get someone on stage and break the fourth wall
  • ref­er­en­tial comedy
    • appro­pri­ate humor (think of your audi­ence) is always a good thing to incorporate
    • to help: keep ref­er­en­cing one humour­ous comment/moment
  • Deal­ing with the hecklers
    • atten­tion seekers (so give them some attention)
    • or are pained by some exper­i­ence (divert to post-presentation one on one)
  • always leave your audi­ence want­ing more

Thanks, Srid­har, for the pos­it­ive blog com­ments. :-)

Written by Nick Hodge

April 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am

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quokka.two: idle worship

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Who does DG look up to in the world?

idle worship

Written by Nick Hodge

April 9th, 2008 at 10:09 am

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