Category Archives: PERSONAL

Language and Nationality

Good to see a post by Steve Gleeson and signs in it that he’s starting to get and idea of the rewards blogging offers. Steve asks “Do English Blog?” He seems to be asking about ‘English’ people (nationality) rather than English speaking. Which is strange as he lives in Australia. I’d much rather ask ‘DoContinueContinue reading “Language and Nationality”

ConnectingUp Podcasts

The PodCast feed for the Connecting Up 2006 Conference – Hyatt Regency Adelaide, South Australia, May 1-2 2006 – is up and running. To subscribe to conference podcasts, tune your ‘PodCatcher’ software to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cu06podcast You can expect to hear a couple of pre-conference interviews with CISA CEO Doug Jacquier, at least two sessions from theContinueContinue reading “ConnectingUp Podcasts”

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”

The business is about the people!

Okay, caught a glimpse of a link (of the web ‘hyper’ kind) that got my mind linking (of the cerebral kind) all these things together. I’m gonna try and get them down before the latter (cerebral) ones give out on me. Follow the links (web) and try to keep up with my thoughts. I wroteContinueContinue reading “The business is about the people!”

Empowering a conversation based on Focused Intention

Caught up with Dr Lloyd Walker today. He was in at where I work with some 5th year biomedical engineering students he gives lectures to about rehabilitation engineering so he dropped by my office. We were talking about the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) bid and the desire to engage people with disabilities, and those whomContinueContinue reading “Empowering a conversation based on Focused Intention”

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”

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”

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.”