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 [...]
Entries from September 2009
Design, thinking & science
September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Tags: education