My exploits in Second Life have been picked up on in an article on eurekastreet.com.au. From the article titled “Flying with disability in Second Life” Australian David Wallace, a quadriplegic who works as an IT coordinator at the South Australian Disability Information and Resource Centre in Adelaide has also found an outlet for his artisticContinueContinue reading “My Second Life exploits get a write up”
Category Archives: Recognition
un-twitter
Just watching my friends twitter feeds makes me tired. Because I’m not watching them as a twitter user they don’t know. Be afraid. Dave PS: Does this mean I have no recognition or anything useful to say? PPS: Because I’m not a twitter user and one of my friends has a closed list, does thisContinueContinue reading “un-twitter”
LongTailJewel, SecondOpinion and NewTailBlog – Affermative Action in the Blogosphere
I see my friend, JP, over on Confused of Calcutta, has picked up on the idea of bringing some equality to the blogosphere by highlighting lesser known bloggers and tagging the post newtailblog. This is right along the lines of what Mike and I picked up on and were discussing back in February through aContinueContinue reading “LongTailJewel, SecondOpinion and NewTailBlog – Affermative Action in the Blogosphere”
Youth Depression
A Mission Australia media release reports: A national survey of around 11,300 young people, aged 11-24 (94% between 11-19), has found that ‘suicide/self harm’, ‘physical/sexual abuse’ and ‘family conflict’ are issues of growing concern…… Two in five young participants were significantly concerned about suicide, and one in three about depression. 1 in 3! Astounding. MissionContinueContinue reading “Youth Depression”
Evil Genius Chronicles » The Listeners Count
Okay. I’ve been sitting on this quote from Dave Slusher for two weeks. I even had related links in delicious that I had intended to go through and try figure out what it was I wanted to say about this. But I’m tired of waiting. So I’m just gonna say it. Is the ‘new system’ContinueContinue reading “Evil Genius Chronicles » The Listeners Count”
Recognition by whom?
(Warning. Long post BUT WORTH IT. If you skim, skip quoted bits.) After my long rants previously about Attention, Recognition and context you would’ve thought I’d exhausted my thought supply for a while. But it’s still been percolating around in the background. There must’ve been a bit left undone or missing. It occured to meContinueContinue reading “Recognition by whom?”
Blobcast #2
Okay, so I didn’t put #1 here. Point is I’m having hellish time trying to get #2 working through a feed. And iTunes isn’t making it easier. So tried d/loading iPodder and the thing keeps telling me there’s errors and quits….so, lets try sticking it in here. Blob2 – Attention, Recognition and Context. No NeedContinueContinue reading “Blobcast #2”
I’m hung up on the concept of context
Further to my previous post titled Attention, Recognition & Context, I read Scoble talking about what term to call someone who generates content, Scoble muses thus: The problem is we don’t have good language. When I’m on Flickr I’m a photographer or a commenter. When I’m here I’m a writer or a blogger. When I’mContinueContinue reading “I’m hung up on the concept of context”
Attention, Recognition & Context
What can attention do for recognition? To be recognised requires attention – def: # Attention or favorable notice: She received recognition for her many achievements. The amount of recognition can be tracked and measured by attention. Attention is being measured so recognition can be. The key is context. In what context is the object givenContinueContinue reading “Attention, Recognition & Context”
Screenagers
LearnDog has a post that directed me to an interesting article in the New York Times about teenagers and the way they are interacting with the digital world. Here’s some thoughts I had on it. “These young kids are very sophisticated and phenomenally intuitive,” he said. “This is the first generation that’s been born intoContinueContinue reading “Screenagers”
