Category Archives: technology

Non-Inclusive Online Booking Systems expose Apathetic Legacy thinking and Antiquated Procedures

I’m getting really sick and tired of every event that is put on defaulting to use these online ticketing systems for bookings and none of them catering for disabled access to be booked online like the rest of the community. Instead, we are ostracised once again, being forced to submit a form and wait forContinueContinue reading “Non-Inclusive Online Booking Systems expose Apathetic Legacy thinking and Antiquated Procedures”

iTunes menu makes no sense – Is Apple paying attention?

Okay. That’s it. I’ve had enough of seeing this message in iTunes that makes no sense every time I’m in my Podcasts area. It seems a couple versions ago someone decided at Apple that we never actually listen to audio podcasts anymore. No folks, that’s just not allowed. How uncouth. Don’t you know that sinceContinueContinue reading “iTunes menu makes no sense – Is Apple paying attention?”

Preserving Digital Identity in my Will

I made a decision yesterday while travelling home – I’m going to make allowance in my will towards the ongoing existence of my digital identity. Now, don’t panic, I’m not ill and don’t intend on dying anytime soon. But it will happen. And it so happens that with recent changes in living arrangements I’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Preserving Digital Identity in my Will”

Sync findings with Mac, WindowsMobile & Google

So, after losing my job and access to a Exchange box I set about finding a way instead to sync my WindowsMobile PDA (hereafter referred to as PDA) with my Mac. I visited a few online ‘gobetween’ sites and soon found a minefield of caveats. http://soocial.com – looks very promising but only does contacts. ItContinueContinue reading “Sync findings with Mac, WindowsMobile & Google”

Hive Mind

HiveMind [http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/] Interesting what vanity searches turn up sometimes. Often lead you to services and sites either never seen or long forgotten. A link to me turned up in my email this morning pointing to the Flickr search tool over at HiveMind [http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/]. It does really fast searches on tags, interestingness, user, contacts and allowsContinueContinue reading “Hive Mind”

venturousaustralia.com.au is go

When the Review of the National Innovation System was released last month we thought it was worth talking about on our podcast. So Myself, Mike and Laurel hooked up, to be joined during the show by Kristin. I had created a aggregated feed around the topic using Yahoo Pipes and pimped it on Twitter andContinueContinue reading “venturousaustralia.com.au is go”

Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors

Over a month back on my Lifekludger blog I mentioned in a blog post titled “Mind control interface a near reality” the Epoc Headset, being developed by Emotiv. The other day on the New Inventors on the ABC here in Australia my friend Mark Pesce gives a shoutoput to me. Ref 1min in. See theContinueContinue reading “Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors”

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”

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.”

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?”

inverted relationship management

Over on a post on Naked yak about what a FRIEND really means, Chris offers a comment that got me thinking: It gets even weirder, because of the friends blurring with business colleagues. Maybe the nature and title of the relationship needs to reside in the hands of the one making the connection, not anContinueContinue reading “inverted relationship management”

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”

CLOSEDvOPEN: Attitude and Generation gaps

JP picks up on my “Walled Hearts” post and points to the Generation factor. He writes : The median age for Too Open is probably Generation X. The median age for Too Closed is probably Generation Y. Ay, there’s the rub. It occurred to me that from the Enterprise standpoint Facebook looks very open yetContinueContinue reading “CLOSEDvOPEN: Attitude and Generation gaps”