Archive for the ‘People’ Category
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives.
Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that's why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I'm doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific ...
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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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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 ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Social Isolation kills - period.
It kills a person’s hope, kills their spirit, and kills their potential.
I know a little about this phenomenon but thankfully less than a lot in the realm of those people who are living with a disability. I know a lot more about it second hand ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The Geek Stories: David Wallace the Lifekludger
Nick now has video of me and my geek story from the other day out on Microsoft's Channel 10 site - www.onten.net
Check it out...if you're game.
Related posts:Lifekludger and Munge brothers geek out.
Lifekludger on TV – No Limits
Lifekludger caught on video
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Just had a visit from Nick Hodge and Mike Seyfang.
You'll know Mike as my co-host and co-hort in all things geeky and new media and Nick is from Microsoft Channel 10 and start_geek.
We were doing some geeking out while Nick shot some video and tell my geek story. ...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Back on Jan 16 and 18, posts by JP alerted me of a video of Lawrence Lessig speaking at the 23rd Chaos Communications Congress. Here’s a link to the video.
JP says:
One of the key points made by Lawrence Lessig in his 23C3 speech is how code, once used solely ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
UPDATE 2006-10-26: The podcast episode featuring the chat with Nancy is now online over at the Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show page
Nancy White is in Australia on a whirlwind speaking tour. She was in Adelaide today and Mike was playing chauffeur and tour guide.
Nancy, Mike and I took the opportunity to ...
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
JP has some thoughts about humans multitasking which came out of something Edward Hallowell said in an article about what Mr Hallowell terms 'Attention Deficit Trait'.
Quoting the bit that sparked this from an article from the The Economist (not the interview article linked above):
....... "Mr Hallowell says that people ...
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