Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
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My friend Mark Pesce writes in one of his latest missives titled "Crowdsource Yourself" :
"...it is possible for us to pool our intellectual resources, and increase our problem-solving capacity."
Exactly what Lifekludger is about.
Crowd-sourced Adaptive Technology. [CAT]
Related posts:Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors
Technology is not ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
ReadWriteWeb have an interesting post which points out a prototype case for the Apple iPhone called invisual - which is a tactile silicon case designed for blind users.
The case completely covers the phone and supposedly allows full access to the multi-touch screen beneath it. Relief symbols in the case offer ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
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I do some occassional lecturing at the University of South Australia in the School of Health Sciences, Occupational Therapy.
The subject is called "Enabling Occupation", occupation in this sense being 'undertaking an activity' - or as I like to call it 'doing stuff'. I focus on how different ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Researchers from the University of Washington are developing a mouse that's controlled using sounds made with your voice.
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Related posts:Voice Activated iPod Controller
Vista Voice Recognition
The Sony mouse phone
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Interesting app detailed in this video that monitors your heart rate with nothing more than your iPhone and an app.
Now, imagine combining this with an sms alert function to notify a chosen number of a care provider. Gets interesting. Now that's consumer convergence with utility.
iPhone App - Heart Monitor from ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Thought : If this iPhone plastic case allows touch to go 'through' it, I wonder if it could help with my 'touch barrier' - if it has some special properties.
From the Fommy site:
Introducing the NuTouch Case, a breakthrough product offering full navigational control of your iphone's touch screen through a ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Listened/watched a couple videos of Shirky's on group forming.
Here's my notes on them. More discussion via my podcast with Mike over here.
Shirky on group forming
Ted -
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
Berkman centre - via youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/v/A_0FgRKsqqU&hl=en&fs=1
Sharing
Conversation
Collaboration
Collective action
Sharing
- old way before group forming was easy was gather->share; new share->gather
- sharing has in-built identity [personality] ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
In the first 2 minutes of this interview from Supernova, Clay touches on the reason why Lifekludger as a collaborative eco system for good hasn't yet got traction.
So far most of the action on the net has been to organise group activity around STOP actions (eg: protests) not START ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The other day my vanity feeds came up with another connection - this time in the shape of a photo on flickr that references Lifekludger being used in a blog post.
The post was by Mike Poole who'd used a photo of a drawing Roy Blumenthal had started for me when ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The following is fro the Blog of Beth Kanter, a friend who's up in Brisbane at the ConnectingUp Conference for Non-profits. Big thanks to Beth.
I am posting her notes on this breakout session as it highlights some of the key Benefits and Barriers for people living with disability participating in ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I've had a hard time getting motivation to get stuff out on Lifekludger of late. I seem to have an unplugged energy drain somewhere.
However recently the following produced a spark in the Lifekludger engine room....not sure there's fuel to make it combust, but it's more than I've experienced recently so ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Seeing this site and video made me think that a Lifekludger Research Lab would be a good idea. Someone getting behind outfitting Lifekludger endeavours.
Te GRL's slogan is "Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication".
How cool would it be to have support for Lifekludging with the ...
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