Learning with the Fang

a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online

Entries from September 2009

Design, thinking & science

September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Somewhere near the intersection of technology and human desire lies great opportunity for a better way of doing things. As we begin to break free from the irons clapped on us by the industrial revolution, we need to learn how to ask better questions, how to co-operate and play more productively so that we can [...]

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Tags: education

Photonics video remixed and featured by AdelaideNow

September 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This video of Professor Tanya Monro featured on the AdelaideNow website contains re-mixed footage shot by other people! This is a VERY GOOD THING which represents the first fruits of something I have beeen trying to achieve for a very long time.
Over a year ago, I convinced Prof. Monro to  fund the shooting and purchase [...]

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Tags: remix

Will realtime RSS bring power back to us old-school bloggers?

September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I was having a bit of a play with realtime RSS over on my wordpress.com blog earlier today – which got me thinking… Does this mean that ye olde blogging will become cool again?
While distributed approaches to realtime updates like RSSCloud and pubsubhubbub be architecturally superior and more scalable than centralised serivces like twitter, I [...]

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Tags: education

Will ScribeFire 3.4.5 work for me?

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Haven’t been able to use scribefire on my blogs for ages.Just updated to v 3.4.5 – lets see if this works.

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Tags: education

Roseworthy open day – my tour

September 14th, 2009 · No Comments

 
After a couple of false starts, I finally managed to get myself on a tour of the Roseworthy campus of the University of Adelaide. Yesterday was open day for the campus so I threw my camera into the car and took the (very scenic) route, out to the campus with a view to grabbing some [...]

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Tags: education