I was awake at 5am the other morning so I could go to a artistic performance in Second Life. The performance was of Pink Floyd’s The Wall concert set to the original music from The Wall. And it was spectacular. It is so popular we had to be there an hour before start to makeContinueContinue reading “Second Life performance of The Wall by Pink Floyd”
Category Archives: Thoughts
Interesting times
It’s funny what you see when you glance at the time sometimes. Dave
Lifekludger Research Lab
Seeing this site and video made me think that a Lifekludger Research Lab would be a good idea. Someone getting behind outfitting Lifekludger endeavours. Te GRL’s slogan is “Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication”. How cool would it be to have support for Lifekludging with the motto “Dedicated toContinueContinue reading “Lifekludger Research Lab”
On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice
Father Bob on Forgiveness: One was a woman from Rwanda where millions were killed a few years ago. She was from tribe A, Tutsi, massacred by tribe B, Hutu. She’d lost husband and children. She was at a “truth and reconciliation” session arranged by South African Bishop Tutu, (Church and State have a different relationshipContinueContinue reading “On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice”
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.”
People don’t scale, People Networks do.
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 to try with my mouthstick especially.ContinueContinue reading “People don’t scale, People Networks do.”
Share : Connect – World Of We
My friend Biff from Naked Yak wrote something ages ago I’ve wanted to reiterate here as it’s very important: Naked Yak 27/01/08 8:04 AM NakedBiff Nurturing The more we share the more we know each other, the more we have in common. In this sense, how we use the technology that is available to usContinueContinue reading “Share : Connect – World Of We”
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?”
Foxtel sucks
Watching Foxtel this morning and anxiously wanting the adverts to finish to continue watching what I was watching, something occurred to me. Why are we now paying to watch ads? It used to be TV was paid for by the advertisers so we could watch free. The Media companies were paid by the advertisers toContinueContinue reading “Foxtel sucks”
Dave the Lifekludger for Rudd’s 1000 at Australia 2020 Summit
UPDATE: Mark Pesce writes an excellent article on how and why the Summit needs to be and extended conversation: Laurel talks here about Kevin Rudd’s call for an Australia 2020 Summit to gather ideas from 1000 Australians on 10 issues: • Future directions for the economy, including education, skills, training, science and innovation •Continue readingContinue reading “Dave the Lifekludger for Rudd’s 1000 at Australia 2020 Summit”
Second Life, the ABC and Virtual Social interactions
UPDATE: The Producer of the show sent me the audio and I’ve snipped out music and commercials. You can listen here. Just like Laurel, I was asked on the ABC Radio Tuesday night to talk about Second Life (SL). Evidently the show was about online relationships, not just SL, but I didn’t know this beforehand,ContinueContinue reading “Second Life, the ABC and Virtual Social interactions”
Linux Conference Australia and Second Life
I got an email about the Linux Conference being held in Melbourne later this month. There will be events also happening simultaneously in Second Life. The irc channel for the conference will be relayed in Second Life for participants to be able to take part via irc in world. See links with SLURL below. Here’sContinueContinue reading “Linux Conference Australia and Second Life”
Hardware remix, economies of scale and corporate incompetence.
My friend JP has written an excellent post We’re not talking games any more. More and more, we will see enterprises spend real money on usability, on visualisation tools, on ways to support people who would otherwise be disenfranchised. Incidentally, thanks to a tweet from LifeKludger, I went and took a look at this. Pointui.ContinueContinue reading “Hardware remix, economies of scale and corporate incompetence.”
3 facts on 2nd life
Three facts most people don’t know from Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, a board member of Linden Labs: 1. $5million a month in revenue 2. 32% domestic (I’m assuming this refers to geography) 3. 43% of members make a profit net of fees via http://kara.allthingsd.com/ Dave
Thoughts from the road – change, steps and the signal.
Took a quick trip bush. Getting into the van, this line came to me: Into the cockpit of our future Fly the memories of our past That’s not quoting anyone, it’s my original thought. There’s a poem in there somewhere. Maybe the rest will appear sometime. Or maybe it’s just stimulus. Sitting in the backContinueContinue reading “Thoughts from the road – change, steps and the signal.”
Flying with a wheelchair – not in Second Life
So, I’m back from Melbourne for wordcamp I’ll write more about wordcamp later but for now I wanted get these thoughts out about travel. The flight was good. The staff at Qantas are becoming adept at using the lifting devices (Eagle lifter) that transfer you from wheelchair to plane seat and back and so whileContinueContinue reading “Flying with a wheelchair – not in Second Life”
Where we need to get back to
Real community and why we are building tools to connect to each other: “One of the things that characterizes people living in difficult conditions is a very well-developed sense of how dependent we humans are on each other,” says Cockburn. “There’s a sense of community that is beyond anything that one encounters in the developedContinueContinue reading “Where we need to get back to”
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”
Barriers to Input
Came across this slide when flicking through the stack Laurel used for her presentation on Mobile Social Networks at Web Directions South. Try as I might I couldn’t get past this one slide. In a bit of context-shifting (something my brain does very well all of its own accord) I realise that this succinctly pointsContinueContinue reading “Barriers to Input”
A TWIT
No, not This Week In Tech … Twitter. I’ve reversed my Brain Damage policy. http://twitter.com/dnwallace Hope I live to regret it 🙂 Dave
Talking about Tools to OTs
The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is “Enabling Occupation” Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean “Helping to do stuff”. Which ain’t a bad definition of what a toolContinueContinue reading “Talking about Tools to OTs”
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”
Isolation kills
Social Isolation kills – period. It kills a person’s hope, kills their spirit, and kills their potential. I know a little about this phenomenon but thankfully less than a lot in the realm of those people who are living with a disability. I know a lot more about it second hand too; the stories visitContinueContinue reading “Isolation kills”
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”
