Posts under ‘General’

A great opportunity for doctors has just been announced. Yammer will be expanding their microblogging platform to groups whose member’s email have different domain names. This means the networks are no longer limited to formal organisations, and can now emerge within informal communities. It is still a “closed” network in the sense that the content [...]

What a Saturday.  I had the chance to sit in on some interesting sessions at the inaugral Trampoline Melbourne, an unconference organised by Pat Allen, Melina Chan, and Steve Hopkins.  It was held at Donkeywheel, Melbourne’s newest social change projects venue.  100 people from various disciplines came together to speak about their biggest ideas.  I heard [...]

There’s a resurgence in an interest in Flow amongst the lively online community here in Melbourne.  Watching the ever-connected Ross Hill and Steve Hopkins at a roundtable discussion this morning reminded me of the most useful diagram I’ve come across in understanding the concept.  Its taken from Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi‘s slide presentation at TED.

Humour detour.  @provoost just pointed me towards a peek at a future of less labour intensive aged care. “…..as the cleansing bubbling action kicked in, Toshiko Shibahara, 89, settled back to enjoy the wash and soak cycle of her nursing home’s new human washing machine.” I think it’s pretty self explanatory.  I think the manufacturers [...]

This is effective.  The presentation. The message. If you could spend one dollar on a significant root cause of many of the world’s significant problems, consider this. The Girl Effect

Content is permanent, and search is maturing. Keep this in mind everytime you post a blog, send out a tweet, or fire off a traceable comment on a website. Nothing is deleted, and accessible data mining technologies are just beginning to come into their own (pipl.com, google.com). The exciting potential of open, online dialogue is [...]

Whilst my body is long gone, I’m happy to still have the opportunity to talk to you like this, in a way my great great grandparents unfortunately didn’t have to speak to me. Little did they envision the opportunities we now possess to have a permanent record of our every online conversation built into a [...]

Maybe its just that I’m relatively new to it, but it appears that the Melbourne web development/startup scene seems to have a lot to offer, and from others are saying, might be picking up speed with regular events such as Thehive.org.au, Melbourne Jelly and Pitchclub, The events are great for connecting entrepreneurs and developers and bringing new [...]

Took this video of a hardened socialist protesting outside of Lehman Brothers the day it went down. With the element of truth to what he is saying about Wall St, people probably couldn’t help but wonder about the legitimacy of his tirades on international conflict. It’s the context of the current credit meltdown that now [...]

Here’s a link to a short article by Jeffrey Sachs on the digital war on poverty. Its interesting to see market forces accomplishing a feat NGOs would be unable to (assuming they had wanted to).  As of 2007 over 50% of the world’s population now use mobile phones.  It took 20 years to reach 1 [...]