Author Archives: Michael Specht

Glenn is a PHD student focusing on modified car culture, and his paper emerged from a blog post. The title is evental (the truth of the event based on ethics) of blogs. Two ideas, one to do with time and the other sense. From his paper there is a very interesting quote “The distributed networksContinue reading “Glen Fuller”

Again no technology, his notes are here, and his blog! He has always been interested in the participatory process of democracy and sees blogging a way to do this. How wide spread is political blogging in Australia? Not very wide, and the impact is basically zero. An open market for politicians to get going, IContinue reading “Senator Andrew Bartlett”

Interesting session a bit of an advertisement for their company Zedtycho, 3 speakers and a panel of questions. Initially highlighted the concept of “desire lines” and there influence on blogs, weblogs allow us to push our desire lines of what we want to do within our personal life. An interesting discussion around “Metcalf and Reed’sContinue reading “Desire Lines, Memes & the Blogosphere”

James is now following Rebecca’s fantastic speech, this morning he stated his concern over following her :-), he did a very good job. James had some slides and was subtlety advertising his new company ;-). “Organic cities are very different to artificial cities” Artificial cities are more like trees where as organic cities are moreContinue reading “James Famer’s talk”

No technology either, however Rebecca’s blog is here. Some notes and thoughts, however I spent most of the talk listening coming to terms with her thoughts and ideas. Over time generalisation gave way to specialists, and now this is giving way for things to be divided further. Collection and cultivation of knowledge is needed andContinue reading “Rebecca Blood’s talk”

Just a quick note I might not get all the quotes right from the conference as they are being interpreted by me and have my personal reasoning and opinion layers.

Fantasitic Trevor had no slides after the problems this morning this is great to see. Here are some rough notes of his talk. Creation of content what happens when you change from doing it for fun to doing it for fun and money? Suddenly you pressure to generate content otherwise you have no content andContinue reading “Trevor Cook’s talk”

Just got the WiFi working at BlogTalk Downunder. Listening to Rebecca Blood’s presentation, very stimulating discussion about the impact amateurs are having on the world. Why is this so interesting? Because we are amateur publishers! The benefit over time amateurs have had on the world is massive, and we, the bloggers, are helping drive thatContinue reading “Blogging from BlogTalk Downunder”