Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Lifekludger Research Lab

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 ...

People don’t scale, People Networks do.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I read with interest my good mate, Hugo Ortega's UberTablet blog. Hugo was the very first guest on our Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast and, outside of my regular colleagues, has been the single biggest supporter of my Lifekludger endeavours, and indeed myself, in a substantial way - providing equipment to ...

Dave the Lifekludger for Rudd’s 1000 at Australia 2020 Summit

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

UPDATE: Mark Pesce writes an excellent article on how and why the Summit needs to be and extended conversation: Laurel talks here about Kevin Rudd's call for an Australia 2020 Summit [video] to gather ideas from 1000 Australians on 10 issues: • Future directions for the economy, including education, skills, training, science ...

Barriers to Input

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Came across this slide when flicking through the stack Laurel used for her presentation on Mobile Social Networks at Web Directions South. Try as I might I couldn't get past this one slide. In a bit of context-shifting (something my brain does very well all of its own accord) I realise ...

Talking about Tools to OTs

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is "Enabling Occupation" Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean "Helping to do stuff". Which ain't a bad ...