Birthday in 3 letters Originally uploaded by dnwallace Was my Birthday today. 3 letters made all the difference. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/tags/birthday2008/
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Hello, my name is David and I’m a blog addict.
Yes. According to this survey, I’m 84% addicted to blogging. 84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? And why the hell not. How addicted are you? Dave
Immersive podcast recording in SL – next Extraordinary Everyday Lives show
UPDATE: Mike has written a good post about this podcast session over on his blog. A few days ago Nick Hodge wrote an interesting post titled “Thinking Ahead of the Game” about Immersive Conversations. I like it because it quickly condenses and summarises the online interaction ‘state-of-play’. It also uncannily traces the spaces I’ve foundContinueContinue reading “Immersive podcast recording in SL – next Extraordinary Everyday Lives show”
wordcamp take-aways
Wordcamp to me was the right un-conference at the right time. At work we’ve been going through some tough stuff after getting near 50% of our budget cut earlier this year. I’ve been re-evaluating everything we do and trying to gaze into the future and direct the IT side of our frail mothership forward. Slash-andContinueContinue reading “wordcamp take-aways”
Dateline Melbourne – wordcamp – 1 = fast net access
So, I’m in Melbourne for Wordcamp. [melbourne.wordcamp.org] Nice apartment, fast, fast net access. See you there if you’re going…if not stay tuned. UPDATE: The above graph was created by the broadband test Facebook application.
Beetroot in Subway – are Subway now gonna charge extra?
Some recent comments on my Bring Beetroot Back to Subway meme so thought I’d update you all. Jim loves Subway but not Beetroot. I love subway but beetroot sux. its messy and i hate it in my subway. adelaide has beetroot and never got rid of it but i wont be upset if it goesContinueContinue reading “Beetroot in Subway – are Subway now gonna charge extra?”
Second Life and The Podcast Network HQ
Some of you may have been wondering why I’ve been a bit quiet on here of late.I’ve been flat out in Second Life (SL) helping get a base for The Podcast Network up and established. It’s been a heady couple weeks which started innocently enough with Cameron Reilly asking me about getting a little placeContinueContinue reading “Second Life and The Podcast Network HQ”
September Collisions
It’s strange how things happen. I could be cynical and say it’s strange how things conspire against you. Moreso though it’s strange the collisions that happen in one’s life. Often it’s almost a cosmic thing. Take today. It’s the 26th anniversary (memorial) of my accident. I wrote about celebrating the quarter century of survival hereContinueContinue reading “September Collisions”
How’s the weather there?
My Nephew is up swaning around the remote NW Western Australia outback. Following along by photos here, this sign on a shop, I think somewhere around Port Hedland, tickled me.
Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger
Sometimes I have troubles deciding where something I write fits. I’m torn between this blog or lifekludger. There’s so much of me that overlaps both. So, for those who might read this blog but not the other, there’s something over on my Lifekludger blog I wrote titled “Isolation kills” you might be interested in. IsolationContinueContinue reading “Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger”
Extraordinary Everyday Lives #032 : Introducing Kent
The latest EELS podcast is up. In it we welcome Kent as a new co-host. EELS 32 – 24th August 2007 – Introducing kent Interestingly, Chris Carfi, who we had on show #30, has posed a timely post on one of the topics we talk about on the latest show. From his full post hereContinueContinue reading “Extraordinary Everyday Lives #032 : Introducing Kent”
Constellations of Context
“And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context”. Back here somewhere in 2005 I was hung up on the concept of context. Well, it’s recently been surfacing again and I serendipitously came across a clipping I made back in beginning of 2006 as I was thinking about it back then.ContinueContinue reading “Constellations of Context”
Love’s seperate tension
A poignant view from the waiting area of the Family Court in Adelaide.Two symbols of the same Nation, seperated. Two ideas of the same thing. The tension of love. Dave (sorry about quality..was taken with my PDA…picture shows Australian Flag on left and Aboriginal Flag on rightin the centre of Victoria Square which is inContinueContinue reading “Love’s seperate tension”
Love’s seperate tension
two flags apart near Originally uploaded by dnwallace A poignant view from the waiting area of the Family Court in Adelaide. Two symbols of the same Nation, seperated. Two ideas of the same thing. The tension of love. Dave
More on the latest silo wars
As a kind of update to my last post here, Doc, in his usual succinctness, hits the silo nail on the head. Social Silo Liberation Front …. I, like Dave, am snowed under by too many requests to join competing social silos. Social groups to which I belong in the physical world do not compete.ContinueContinue reading “More on the latest silo wars”
Weekend with Dad
[movie on youtube]
Kent swivels
Here’s my submission of blogs for Kent’s Swivel feeds experiment.jp rangaswami – confused of calcutta – http://confusedofcalcutta.comjp is a kind of information hero of mine. something about how he sees things just clicks with me in totally perpendicular ways. he’s the cio of bt global services.nick hodge – mungenet – http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/Uncle Nick is a MungeContinueContinue reading “Kent swivels”
South Australian State Budget out of touch with Information/Knowledge Economy
In an age where information is the key to a emerging knowledge economy I was amazed at the SA Governments decision to kill nearly half its’ budget for advocacy and information. What’s more, I was stunned by the fact that nearly a third of that was from where I work. Over half our total budgetContinueContinue reading “South Australian State Budget out of touch with Information/Knowledge Economy”
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
That’s one of my chief guiding principals. If something does the job, go with it until it doesn’t.So, turns out there was something I wanted to do on this blog that my ole WordPress v1.5 install wouldn’t support, so I’ve just upgraded it to v2.It went fairly painless. I disabled plugins, copied the directory overContinueContinue reading “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
Back on the air after 48 hours
I don’t believe it. Mark of the beast?I’m actually back connected to the outside world after over 48 hours of two of my phone lines being out of order – one of them my ADSL connection.I felt helpless as I rang Telstra again and again with them saying that its a ‘major fault” (no shitContinueContinue reading “Back on the air after 48 hours”
David Weinberger’s boat and archaic language
While I wait for my copy of “Everything is Miscellaneous” to wend its way across the oceans to Australia; after ordering it via Amazon, as the local book stores tell me it’s not released here in Australia yet (cough); I while away my miscellaneous time reading about the book in Mr Weinberger’s blog. While deeplyContinueContinue reading “David Weinberger’s boat and archaic language”
Facebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?
Kent asks a genuine question on his blog about the popularity of things like Facebook and Myspace. What is so much better about Facebook (and MySpace and other similar platforms) than an ordinary blog on a popular platform- say WordPress? Maybe it’s just that the likes of Facebook, Myspace are seen as a ‘place’ toContinueContinue reading “Facebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?”
The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector
Over on her blog, Laurel does as brilliant job of expanding on a very important penny that was dropped and jelled at the Connecting Up Conference earlier in the week. It’s reflected in the comment I jotted down here while liveblogging. During his keynote, Daniel Ben-Horin from Compumentor made reference to the emergence of aContinueContinue reading “The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector”
My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya
Update: Tools and more tips here and here. Well, I got a signal in the ether from Beth Kanter about Alison Lowndes asking how Ali could best promote the AVIF Volunteers blog to get the message out about her work with children in Kenya. I’m no A-list blogger but have been pleased about connections myContinueContinue reading “My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya”
People like to own stuff – ask a ninja about monetising atoms not bits
There was a profound important small discussion on the latest TWIT #97. Guest twit was Kent Nichols from Ask a Ninja and they were talking about merchandise. Kent made the comment that ‘people like to own stuff’ and John C Dvorak got the point of the matter. It’s what my mate Mike terms “monetise whenContinueContinue reading “People like to own stuff – ask a ninja about monetising atoms not bits”
