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 designing a logo forContinueContinue reading “Lifekludger vision from outside”
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Travel Second Life hands free
Lots of new and interesting input and interface devices being developed it seems lately. Lets hope we can see some real world uses for access to technology evolving from them. Mitch Kapor (from Linden Labs Board) and Philippe Bossut designed a prototype interface that demonstrates the possibilities for operating Second Life “hands free” without aContinueContinue reading “Travel Second Life hands free”
ConnectingUp – Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities.
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 the digital space -ContinueContinue reading “ConnectingUp – Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities.”
ConnectingUp 2008 yahoo pipe feed
Seeing I won’t be there I’ve created a yahoo pipe to track activity at ConnectingUp 2008 Conference.I’m using the tag ‘cu08’ and as suggested by @kanter following the #cu08 hashtag for twitter.Feed published at this link here.http://pipes.yahoo.com/js/listbadge.jshttp://pipes.yahoo.com/js/imagebadge.jsDave
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Welcome to Australia Beth
Was tracking Beth Kanter’s journey via Skype, Twitter Qik on her way to ConnectingUp 2008 Conference in Brisbane. Followed a Twitter on Sat afternoon that she was streaming live on Qik – unfortunately she quickly experienced the bottleneck that exists to any serious entry of Australia participating the Information Economy – our network access. ClickContinueContinue reading “Welcome to Australia Beth”
Mind control interface a near reality
Be interesting to see what practical applications this device from Emotiv can be put to use as. There’s some discussion on the Facebook Emotivated Group discussion around using it for computer control by those with a disability. I’m looking forward to being able to walk in second life, and fly, by thinking with it. 🙂ContinueContinue reading “Mind control interface a near reality”
Pre Budget 2008 comment and photo for Advertiser Newspaper
Was asked to give comment pre-budget on what I wanted from the budget. I’m never good at the one-line message that newspapers seem to want, I have trouble encapsulating all my thoughts in a short space, so I rambled on a bit and they picked something out that I guess they thought relevant. The photographerContinueContinue reading “Pre Budget 2008 comment and photo for Advertiser Newspaper”
Connection, participation and real innovation to solve big problems
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 I’m sharing it. IContinueContinue reading “Connection, participation and real innovation to solve big problems”
Second Life performance of The Wall by Pink Floyd
I was awake at 5am the other morning so I could go to a artistic performance in Second Life. The performance was of Pink Floyd’s The Wall concert set to the original music from The Wall. And it was spectacular. It is so popular we had to be there an hour before start to makeContinueContinue reading “Second Life performance of The Wall by Pink Floyd”
More thoughts on People and Networks
More on the idea of people networks, Chris Carfi writes on his blog this excellent thought : Networks don’t have people. People have networks.:”Networks don’t have people. People have networks.” – Demian EntrekinIn it he has some key thoughts from others including Doc Searles (writes), Dave McClure (writes)and Kevin Werbach (brings it home). The rightContinueContinue reading “More thoughts on People and Networks”
Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives #045 : get naked with biff, is out
Extraordinary Everyday Lives show #45 – GetNaked with biff This show we are joined by Richard Birkin (biff) from Naked. Biff is from Derby, England. Biff outlines the Naked ideas and how it works and the ‘kernel’ of what the service offers. We talk about closed being the new open, notions of privacy and trust.ContinueContinue reading “Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives #045 : get naked with biff, is out”
Interesting times
It’s funny what you see when you glance at the time sometimes. Dave
Lifekludger Research Lab
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 motto “Dedicated toContinueContinue reading “Lifekludger Research Lab”
This is my Jam
thisismyjam.com – a neat new mashup service to create a jam session. http://thisismyjam.com/flash/jam.swf?dnw/20080323025345.xml http://dnw.thisismyjam.com Dave
Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #044 with Al Upton is out
Show number #44 is out. There has been a bit of a kerfuffle on the interwebs this week as Al Upton and the miniLegends class blog was Closed. Kent couldn’t join us today due to time zone issues. An extremely relevant topic, this show has already had the largest amount of downloads on a singleContinueContinue reading “Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #044 with Al Upton is out”
Eight Random Facts about Dave – meme
Following an old meme Laurel dredged up and tagged me, here’s eight random facts about me. The rules: 1- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 2 – People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. 3 – At theContinueContinue reading “Eight Random Facts about Dave – meme”
The Level Playing Field – ksolo not available in OZ
Saw via twitter a friend of mine, who happens to sing beautifully, had found karaoke on My Space. So I went to listen. Dave Technorati Tags: ksolo, myspace
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen dust – Womadelaide 2008
My first Womad experience was a memorable one. We nearly didn’t get in as the people at the ticket office were trying to tell us that my carer with me needed to have an ‘official’ carers card! I mean what the hell. My family carers for me, they don’t get paid, and yet aren’t official’ContinueContinue reading “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen dust – Womadelaide 2008”
On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice
Father Bob on Forgiveness: One was a woman from Rwanda where millions were killed a few years ago. She was from tribe A, Tutsi, massacred by tribe B, Hutu. She’d lost husband and children. She was at a “truth and reconciliation” session arranged by South African Bishop Tutu, (Church and State have a different relationshipContinueContinue reading “On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice”
People don’t scale, People Networks do.
Cross posted from Lifekludger blog 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 toContinueContinue reading “People don’t scale, People Networks do.”
People don’t scale, People Networks do.
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 try with my mouthstick especially.ContinueContinue reading “People don’t scale, People Networks do.”
Share : Connect – World Of We
My friend Biff from Naked Yak wrote something ages ago I’ve wanted to reiterate here as it’s very important: Naked Yak 27/01/08 8:04 AM NakedBiff Nurturing The more we share the more we know each other, the more we have in common. In this sense, how we use the technology that is available to usContinueContinue reading “Share : Connect – World Of We”
Virtual Worlds and Emerging Technologies for People with Disabilities
I was awake at 3.30am to take part in the Second Life talk that’s part of this forum: (why do I do these things…) Using Virtual Worlds and Emerging Technologies for People with Disabilities This two-part, interactive event will take place in two locations online: First, the live discussion in the virtual world of SecondContinueContinue reading “Virtual Worlds and Emerging Technologies for People with Disabilities”
Is Photodropper ripping of Flickr Manager – Antithesis of a connected culture?
Today I got in my delicious “for” bookmarks a link with a note that a site has appeared called Photodropper (purposely not linked to here) had appeared on the scene and is pushing a WordPress plugin that aside from a few changed variable names appears is the exact code ripped off from a plugin calledContinueContinue reading “Is Photodropper ripping of Flickr Manager – Antithesis of a connected culture?”
