Archive for May, 2007
« Previous EntriesDon’t Stop Now - Crowded House
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007(Photo: Matt Sherrod, Neil Finn from video clip Don't Stop Now)
Neil Finn and Crowded House at their best. video: Watch the video now
Guitar weirdness at 2:20 and lyrical changes at 3:00 into the song. Love it.
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DO WANT!
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Microsoft Surface Computing. More than just Windows.
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Who woulda thunk?
AIMIA Presentation: Web 3.0 and Visualisation
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First Irons in the Fire
LOLZ! Starter Programming Tools Abound!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007HAI
Microsoft PopFly makes your ideas fly, and may not be a strict programming language. But cool.
From the revered MIT Media Lab: Scratch:
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper [...]
Frank Arrigo, Wikipedia
Monday, May 28th, 2007After more discussion than content, Wikipedia has sadly removed the Frank Arrigo entry created by delic8genius, and edited (badly) by my good self.
Objective lessons learnt:
social media is not a free-for-all
online communities have rules
wikipedia does openly publish their rules. These rules and style guide are long.
newbies are left to freely create their own entries
strong editorial process quickly clamps [...]
Silk Charm Pixie Dust
Monday, May 28th, 2007I spent an excellent 50 minutes of my weekend listening to this Podcast from Uncle Dave and Uncle Mike: Laurel Papworth, Social Networking Strategist
Laurel and I had breakfast to catch up on similar topics in March this year: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/nhodge/the-geek-stories-online-communities-citizen-journalism/
The podcast is a more insightful conversation with Laurel, an expert in Social networks and more importantly, [...]
Twitter @-sign-fu
Sunday, May 27th, 2007OK, twitter.com is the rage of the first half of 2007. Maybe Facebook.com hits the same growth rate for the second half of 2007. Who knows with this fickle world of social networking.
The "@"-sign is used to respond to people on twitter, and is completely user-invented:
That is, if you write "@nickhodge blah blah blah", there [...]
Australian Canegrowers: Hiring on YouTube
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Demonstrating Australian farmers are innovative. And a bunch of larrakins.
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Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8
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Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
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Towel Day 2007
Sunday, May 27th, 2007Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.
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Frank Arrigo’s Day Off
Sunday, May 27th, 2007(picture: Norbert and Frank)
Save Ferris! Save Frank! More Save Frank!
Having heard Jimmy Wales talk about Biographies on Wikipedia, especially of living people, I am now seeing it in action.
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CQ + PQ + EQ > IQ
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Laurel Papworth has some interesting comments on generation-Y (digi-kids) and the disconnected nature of our current governments. Laurel's post references this article in the Sydney Morning Herald (Laurel: the reason why Fairfax doesn't believe in the long tail is that it hasn't worked out its business model yet)
Having spent two days with a selection of [...]
