Category Archives: Blogging

On context and openness

“blogging is the opensourcing of ideas” – confused of calcutta. Context is something that bugs me from time to time, and features in Lifekludger. Openness is a more recent ‘fog’ to me. A couple more recent posts from around the place that have got me back thinking about context again, and openness still. In aContinueContinue reading “On context and openness”

Pledgebank – empower yourself

I came across this site, Pledgebank, via Beth’s blog. What a brilliant idea. A tool to harness the collective will of a group of people! From the Pledgebank site: “We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can’t really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank isContinueContinue reading “Pledgebank – empower yourself”

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”

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”

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”

Equality on the blogosphere – no gaping voids.

Following up on a conversation with [tag]Hugh Macleod[/tag] over on gapingvoid. To me, equality in the blogosphere is not about every blogger being the same in quantity or measure of what they write. And it is not about status, whether measured by outcome, traffic, readership, quality or even those (I think fictitious) “attractive, sexually willingContinueContinue reading “Equality on the blogosphere – no gaping voids.”

What blogging is all about

Over on the Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra writes beautifully (as usual) about the positive potential possibilities blogging has to offer. If you’re half-interested in what blogging is really all about, do yourself a favour and have a read. It’s my hope that between this, lifekludger and enableblogs, my and others lives will beContinueContinue reading “What blogging is all about”

small pieces in separate piles

I have been using delicious to tag certain web sites and articles that I think are interesting for ConnectingUp 2006 conference with the cu06 tag. I was hoping that over on technorati.com that it would pick up on the cu06 tag and display it in the page showing my delicious bookmarks, or in fact anyContinueContinue reading “small pieces in separate piles”

Enableblogs – beginnings

Things happen so fast in this Web2.0 world it sometimes makes my head spin. If you’d looked closely at my Flicker photos you would have seen some shots of a conference between James Farmer (edublogs), Mike Seyfang (Learndog) and myself (Lifekludger) resulting in James graciously offering to host the enableblogs site – a concept whichContinueContinue reading “Enableblogs – beginnings”

Saving Doug’s hair – What’s Web2.0 about?

Over at Doug Jacquier’s blog, Doug is “doodling and sctratching his head” trying to answer some questions posed to him from Jody Mahoney at Compumentor about Web2.0. This is what I think – he asked for it! I see two main things happening that what is termed Web2.0 is shaping and in turn, is shapingContinueContinue reading “Saving Doug’s hair – What’s Web2.0 about?”

Lifekludger Vision from Writely

Just managed to get Writely to post the first draft of the Lifekludger Vision doc file I’ve been collaborating on with Mike straight to my Lifekludger blog. Had probs. at first with the xmlrpc.php file. I thought it was permissions but wasn’t. If you want to post from Writely to your WordPress blog and haveContinueContinue reading “Lifekludger Vision from Writely”

Audio of Linda Stone’s Supernova Address

Listened to this on way to work in car this morning. It’s the audio containing the address Linda Stone gave at the Supernova 2005 Conference – the notes of which I referred to in my previous blog post “You can’t stop the signal” A few key points missed in notes I want to highlight: Multi-taskingContinueContinue reading “Audio of Linda Stone’s Supernova Address”

You can’t stop the signal.

I have been spending alot of time thinking about the notes on Linda Stone’s article at Supernova 2005. I’ve decided to put my thoughts up here rather than refine them any further. The article goes from the position of needing to “Filter the NOISE from the SIGNAL” at the start of the article to “FilterContinueContinue reading “You can’t stop the signal.”

post-multitasking adaptive behaviour

Continuous partial attention is a post-multitasking adaptive behaviour. This is a quote from Linda Stone’s address at the Supernova Conference earlier this year. YOU MUST read the whole article here. This is NOT an option. As you’d hear on a Dave Slusher EGC podcast intro. – “You should listen to this because this concerns you”.ContinueContinue reading “post-multitasking adaptive behaviour”