Mobile uploads, being smart with your smart phone..
How to bring your blog along with you wherever you go, like that really annoying younger sibling when you were a child. If you have a smartphone and data access. Blog everywhere! Step 1. Enable mobile uploads under the Settings…
How to embed a video in a post, or take a video to bed ;)
Ok so you’ve found that awesome Youtube, Vimeo vid and you want to embed it in your post so your valuable readers don’t leave your site! Here’s how to do it 1. Find the embed code for your video, this…
Playing in an orchestra, All together now.
Last night was my first experience in playing with an orchestra. I’d hammered away for months now learning the skills I’d need to participate in this very small, specific community. Of course it was pouring with rain and I had…
Loop de Loops with Chris Argyris
Double Loop learning, revolutionary new age learning structure or age old workshop technique. It’s no secret that most thing we come upon in modern times are a Frankenstein of older media melded in a certain way to create something new….
The lens of a dominant culture
Today on the tram to university I witnessed an extremely strange but insightful scene. The tram trundled slowly forward, its steel wheels squeaking on its steal tracks, the commuters packed inside swaying backwards and forwards while trying not to fall…
Suspension of disbelief, a journey into Design Fiction
Spaceships, video conferencing on tiny devices the same size as a wristwatch, machines that heated our meals far more quickly than any oven. These technologies were once the stuff of science fiction. People either believed they would be coming much…
Screencasting, What is it and how do I do it?
As we move further onto the digital domain our ability to properly articulate our online activities becomes extremely important. Screencasting is a genre by which you can show your screen directly via a video file. This allows you to show…
The first of the unlectures, an exercise in absenteeism and networking.
On Tuesday the 23rd of July we had the first lecture on the subject of Networked Media. Unfortunately during the time of the lecture I happened to be several kilometers up in the air traveling back to Melbourne from Australia’s…
Social Media, Utopia or Dystopia?
We are all involved in some level with virtual communities, but is social media becoming the utopia which transverses borders and cultures or is it turning into something more sinister? Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist, talks about some of his experiences…
Farmers sell direct
P2P isn’t just for programmers and inner city trendies, rural communities are starting to use it as a way to bypass the centralized food industry in Australia to create benefits for both parties. An excellent example of a network replacing…