Author Archives: dnw

People who give a damn!

This post started as an email reply to Frank Arrigo. Frank was kindly answering another of my questions about Bluetooth and PDA interoperability. My response evolved however into something that really needs to be more widely heard, hence I’m posting it here. > Unfortunately the news isn’t good > > I haven’t been able toContinueContinue reading “People who give a damn!”

Blob7 – Network of 6; The new concierges?

Blob7 Podcast snippet – Are ‘Network of 6′ the ’emerging concierges’ Linda Stone talks about? (2:23, 2245kb) Description This is a very short snippet (about 2.5mins) from the February 17, 2006 edition of the Distributing the Future podcast. [Rael Dornfest and Tim O’Reilly continue their preview of next month’s Emerging Technology conference…] The bit thatContinueContinue reading “Blob7 – Network of 6; The new concierges?”

LongTailJewel on Gday World

Mike ([tag]Learndog[/tag]) was a guest on G’day World #92 yesterday. He successfully hi-jacked the show to get in discussion of things we’ve been thinking about in the longtailjewel conversation – ensuring every voice has at least one listener, every writer at least one reader. For those in Continuous Partial Attention mode, I’ve snipped the relevantContinueContinue reading “LongTailJewel on Gday World”

Media Centre Voice Reccognition

The other day the e-HomeUpgrade blog had news and a review about some speech recognition software from OneVoice Technologies. The Media Center Communicator Version 2, is designed to let you talk to and control your Media Center PC. For the future One Voice Communications is working with other partners on integrating voice command into homeContinueContinue reading “Media Centre Voice Reccognition”

Does a Second Opinion = Affermative Traction

After previous dialogues around the issues of gatekeepers, blog traffic, A-list, Z-list, M-list, Down-linkers and whatever else you want to term it, then Kent Newsome’s dreaming up the idea called “second opinion”, Mathew Ingram picked me as a target for what Doc Searls termed “Affermative Traction”. Now, while the conversation Mike (Learndog) and I (Lifekludger)ContinueContinue reading “Does a Second Opinion = Affermative Traction”

Vista Voice Recognition

All throughout my life with technology I’ve used add-on software to help kludge my way around. Macs had accessibility features built right in from the word go – though mouse-drags were problematic. DOS & early Windows required external software to handle mouse-drags until the click-lock functions appeared in XP. It seems given time OS softwareContinueContinue reading “Vista Voice Recognition”

Wanted – virtual address

The government should forget trying to get tourists to come to Australia by using the ad slogan “So where the bloody hell are you?” – you can’t even get bloody books down here! The following is a direct crosspost from my Lifekludger blog. If you get the impression I’m not happy… you are right! VirtualContinueContinue reading “Wanted – virtual address”

Wanted – virtual address

Virtual Geographic Kludging Here’s the story. I had been hearing lots aboiut David Allen’s book “Getting things done”. I had heard it was available through audible.com and so wandered over there, credit card at the ready, to purchase a audio download of the book. Having a [tag]disability[/tag] that severely restricts my ability to handle physicalContinueContinue reading “Wanted – virtual address”

Pick a card, any two!

Our jewel code: my %blogosphere = &assessment; if($blogosphere {‘opportunity’} eq ‘fame’) { # do nothing } else {print “equality & fairnessn”; } “If opportunity means something like fame (or google-juice) in the blogosphere, then Dave and I would pick equality and fairness as our ‘two’.” That bit of perl code is a geeky way ofContinueContinue reading “Pick a card, any two!”

What’s Good? – want a second opinion?

As to this, quoted from a post of Kent’s : “As an aside, are there any bad blogs in Australia?” Define ‘Bad’… or ‘Good’ for that matter. This is what’s great about the blogosphere – you just ‘voice’ what you want and leave the ‘listeners’ to decide what’s good and bad FOR THEM – inContinueContinue reading “What’s Good? – want a second opinion?”

Horizontal HQ Sessions #2

Another rant between Mike and I, this time around the whole ‘inequality kerfuffle’, as Hugh termed it. It touches on the issues behind the [tag]gatekeepers[/tag] debate. Empowerment, inclusion, isolation, barriers – all these things which over 20 years in a wheelchair has given me good opportunity to be aquainted with. Great to see people likeContinueContinue reading “Horizontal HQ Sessions #2”