Learning with the Fang

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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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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Just returned from the mysterious ‘PlanetMuse’ party at the Underground in Adelaide, supported by the LearnDog foundation. If you know me will you will understand this is of great interest to me because I left a great job at Microsoft and a 25 year career in I.C.T. to spend a very difficult year (2005/06) as [...]

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Over the weekend I heard that LearnDog now exists as a legal entity under Australian law and will soon have a bank account!  This is great news indeed – if the right people come on board and enough funds are raised maybe some of my lofty plans from 2005 can be built into reality.
Fang – [...]

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While messing around with some flickr and photoshop mashups for Beth Kanter’s 50th birthday ‘competition’ I got to thinking…
Thinking about ways to run ‘competitions’ where the aim is to maximise the amount of recognition for every single ‘contestant’.

You see, recogniton is a key pillar of the LearnDog vision – we have often thought about being [...]

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