www.nickhodge.com

… to para­phrase the quo­ta­tion below. Thanks to danah boyd for the inspiration.

(click on image to see lar­ger version)

Thanks to Mark Pesce for the recom­mend­a­tion to the Essen­tials journ­al­ist, Nick Galvin.

Oh, and Fiona Mor­ris had a ver­sion of the photo taken with cats. The cat ver­sions were fun­nier. Behind the scenes: when the photo as taken, we were actu­ally look­ing at http://icanhascheezburger.com/ for the LOL inspiration.

Accord­ing to Stew­art Green­hill, I am “the friendly face of the evil empire Nick “professional geek” Hodge”

Lulz.

Thanks to Uncle Dave Wal­lace (to the left), I now feel prop­erly attired in SecondLife:

Hanging out on the The Pod­cast Net­work island, where the Aus­tralian Twit­ter­arti drop in and out. Donated some money to Cameron so he’s not tak­ing food from his family’s mouth to cre­ate a place to visit.

Duncan Riley from Tech­crunch pos­ted his thoughts on meet­ing in Second­Life, espe­cially the new voice/talk inter­face and the inter­sec­tion of meth­ods of inter­act­ing with each other.

As I stated recently, I was wrong about Second­Life. It’s a social environment.

More exper­i­ments to come.

More cluely people join the Aus­tralian DPE team. It’s way cool hav­ing smart friends on the team to bal­ance my ignor­ance on all Microsoft mat­ters important.

A Spe­cial shout out to the ever help­ful Jeffa and Cap­tain Coates.

Frank seems to be reliev­ing his end-of-year frus­tra­tions by chan­ging my title in the HR sys­tem. It will be cool to see my first Microsoft Per­form­ance Eval­u­ation with “Pro­fes­sional Geek”  A story to tell the grand kids.

1. Web 2.0: needs extra work to map to teach­ing out­comes (del.icio.us, flickr) Many Web 2.0 sites still blocked by policy. It makes it dif­fi­cult to use all the cool web 2.0 stuff in school, espe­cially when these tools will be used by the stu­dents for pro­ject deliv­ery. Think a mashup as a pro­ject handin. (cool!)
2. If multiple-media sub­mis­sion types (Power­point, video, web sites) are required for present­a­tion: how do we present? Mak­ing the tech­no­logy easier is key; and the stu­dents have more advanced Quick­time, Flash­Player, WMV, Power­point than on the stand­ard, locked down desktops. Secondly, as SVGA style con­nec­tions to pro­ject­ors in the room.
3. Web job oppor­tun­it­ies mapped to ICT. What sort of jobs exist for stu­dents in a web-world? Art teach­ers > design, for instance
4. 90+% of Yr10s have IM address; 80+% com­mu­nic­ate with people out­side Aus­tralia! Can only think this is based either on fam­ily or friends over­seas with sim­ilar interests
5. Man­aging the bal­ance between ICT evan­gel­ism vs. Microsoft demo-stuff.  Show­ing cool stuff is cool. Con­sider that video cabling and audio may not suit in all circumstances.
6. Key guid­ance from Sean Tier­ney crit­ical. 20 minute chunking import­ant; just like adult learning.
7. Sur­prised many teach­ers how few people it took at Cas­tle­maine XXXX to make beer, how auto­mated the pro­cess is. Can a bunch of teach­ers organ­ise a p*ss-up in a brew­ery? (yes, if timetable permits)
8. Mount Gravatt High: Im in ur your Wiki­pe­dia pages.

It has been an excel­lent week for the ABC. The Curtin “docu-drama” gave a por­trait of a man of his time: Prime Min­is­ter John Curtin dur­ing the 1941 through 1942.

Last night, Jeff McMul­lan did a stand­ard “journ­al­istic show” wrapped as debate on new tech­no­lo­gies, and the impact on com­munity on “Dif­fer­ence of Opin­ion: Grow­ing Up in the Digital Age”. Cap­tured inthe fresh­ness of the moment, this Pod­cast cap­tured by Chris Saad of Particls. Dis­cus­sion boards on the topic are inter­est­ing to read.

Another essence is that people’s online and digital life is real. It is a part of generation-y iden­tity. The base-level mor­als and eth­ics still apply; and prob­ably more so in a world that is flat and always on.

• Life in Chip­pend­ale, Steven Noble.
• Roy Porter: Social His­tory of London
• Eng­lish: defin­i­tion of vir­tual. Is vir­tual a pejor­at­ive? Maybe my lan­guage is a little too 1990’s

First, the email:

progeek@microsoft.com

Second the T-shirt:

Lastly, the busi­ness card:

Now I feel at home!