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”
Category Archives: BlogTalkDownunder
Desire Lines, Memes & the Blogosphere
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 Famer’s talk
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”
Rebecca Blood’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”
Disclaimer on Blogtalk Downunder
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.
Trevor Cook’s talk
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”
Blogging from BlogTalk Downunder
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”
Photos from BlogTalk Downunder
I am going to be using my phone to take some photos of the conference, they can all be found at Flickr tagged with Blogtalkdownunder. BTW I like tags as a method of consolidating my content from the conference. I also plan to setup a tag at del.icio.us (it will also be Blogtalkdownunder) for linksContinue reading “Photos from BlogTalk Downunder”
A use for tags
Reading Abject Learning last night and found a real use for tag. Brian Lamb provides a great example of tags in practice from the Northern Voice conference, he quotes Alexandra Samuel, here is the bit I found fantastic. Tags are helping people solve problems and work smarter. When 350 bloggers gathered recently for Canada’s firstContinue reading “A use for tags”
In Sydney this week
I will be in Sydney later this week for Blogtalk DownUnder. Initially the conference had some drinks and food on Thursday evening due to dollar (aka sponsorship) constraints this has been cancelled. I however will be in Sydney and staying at the Vibe Hotel and would love to catch up with anyone who is inContinue reading “In Sydney this week”