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Author Archives: James
The Journal of Community Informatics
The new issue of The Journal of Community Informatics is out now and full of very interesting articles… but, with no full text (just abstracts) sadly… so I’ll be unsubscribing. I really think that this is a bit messed up, if you’re going to send out email updates of new issues you should at the …
Places to Go…
I’m totally hugely flattered and chuffed that Stephen chose IncSub and this blog as the first destination of his first ‘Places to Go’ slot at Innovate, here’s the article [serious blushing]. If you’re reading this coming along from Innovate, welcome aboard, have a look around and please feel free to join in!
Wiki / Aggregated Lesson Plans & Resources
Enjoyed an excellent chat with Ian Grove-Stephensen of Chalkface (a company which publishes online courses, lesson plans etc.) over Jabber today (using psi, which I’m swinging towards, explain more soon). All sorts of stuff came up but what particularly resonated for me was this age old approach of storing and sharing plans / materials and …
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Interview with a comment spammer…
For Alan, no wonder they didn’t come to you, too busy doing donuts in their jaguars???? “Sam – let’s call our interviewee Sam, it’s suitably anonymous – lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage Jaguar and runs his own company. But “it’s not not all rock and roll and big money”, …
Blogtalk Downunder Venue
Y’know… usually yacht clubs get me down a bit, all that opulence, greed, class-associated stuff, big boats sitting there and never going anywhere etc. etc. But when it comes to us hosting Blogtalk Downunder at the best damn location possible in Sydney, well…. I can put my prejudices aside for a minute, forget my roots, …
Phase behaviour in human communities and the evolving social internet
Luke Razzell (of weaverluke) has published two very interesting articles on Phase behaviour in human communities and the evolving social internet, part 1 & part 2 and part 3 (to come). Phase behaviour is, as far as I can gather, essentially the development and then rapid dissolution / change evident in human communities and these …
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Design Challenge – Water Saving
Cool, elearning design challenge is back with a new one and it’s a bit off the wall this time: “Your water utility company has invited you to design something for its website or a public-access kiosk to convince people to conserve water and abide by the restrictions.” More eCommunications challenge I think but well worth …
Exploring multiple account IM
Thanks to everyone who suggested different multi-id IM tools (for XP) yesterday, have had a chance (in between regular Saturday stuff :o) to play around with a few of them and have some initial thoughts on the four different possibilities: , Jabber (using psi as a client), Miranda and Gaim. Trillian (which I mentioned yesterday) …
Which multiple account IM client?
The blindingly obvious occurred to me today when I figured out that I should use one of these multi-IM devices rather than running Yahoo, MSN, ICQ etc. etc. all at the same time. I’d really like to just use Skype but as my Uni won’t allow it (something to do with security, well.. the security …