Learning with the Fang

Within 24hours of Michael Jackson’s death I had seen thousands of links to ILLEGAL video clips and songs passed around as facebook status updates and twitter tweets. At dinner on the Saturday night after his death I heard several stories of people unable to buy CDs of albums they had previously bought at least twice [...]

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Wondering if you can be bothered going out to Adelaide city on a Thursday night to hear Genevieve Bell?
Then listen to THIS talk from a workshop for Engineers in 2008 and go and make your booking.

p.s. I cannot attend the talk and will give a small reward to the first person who shares a link [...]

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Here is a recording of a little chat I had with Dean Eaton – General Manager of the LearnDog foundation, talking about PlanetMuse.
You can help by putting Dean in touch with any 14-35 year old folk who want to get into the local music scene. (Would make a perfect GAP year for kids before Uni [...]

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While trying to figure out why my geotagged photos from iPhoto09 were not showing up in the Flickr map, I learnt a thing or two. It all started here:
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/90239/
Top 10 things to check are:
http://www.flickr.com/account/?donegeoexif=1&tab=privacy

http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/exifprivacy/?from=privacy
http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy
http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/privacy/?from=privacy
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/optout/?from=privacy

http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/downloads/?from=privacy
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/sharing?from=privacy

http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/filters/?from=privacy [and it takes time for a new account to be marked safe]

Additional goodies from:
http://www.underdoug.ca/2009/02/01/iphoto-09-and-previously-geotagged-photos/
http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/8041/iPhoto-%2709-Geo-Tagging
Note to self:
Try some of the other tools/techniques [...]

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Last week I attended the PlanetMuse launch party courtesy of the LearnDog foundation. I have just been given a video recording of proceedings from which I extracted some audio of Senator Nick Xenophon speaking.

I was quite impressed with the connections the good Senator made in relation to Gladwell’s tipping point and Winston Churchill’s wrestling with [...]

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