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Bottling Second Life in digital video
December 20, 2007 – 2:46 pm
Huzzah it’s done. Not smooth sailing but have got there in the end.
There are many learnings in digital video recording the Second Life event.Critiquing the SL video:
The first cut of the video showed how much is was an unexciting talking heads are in SecondLife. May as well as have a simple audio file with […]
Beginning Second Life
November 29, 2007 – 5:30 pm
Beginning Second Life starts with creating a character’s Name on the Second Life website. My avatar was dubbed Teskat Teskat.
From that point I downloaded and installed the Second Life software, confirmed my account in email (it was in my junk folder) and logged in.
Basically you start with a something like department store manikin which you […]
86% of statistics are fiction
November 20, 2007 – 12:20 pm
Seasonally adjusted, however, it’s 92%. With web analytics - it’s even higher.
Currently I’m investigating the reason why there are discrepancies between AWStats and Google Analytics - specifically the large differences between a common statistic Page Views.
AWStats bases it’s reports on what happens on the webserver. The challenge is to correctly interpret server hits […]
Who’s doing web 2.0 well?
August 22, 2007 – 6:14 pm
I got very excited about how the structure of the web is changing under the momentum of web 2.0. The penny dropped when I realised Flickr, YouTube, Google and Del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes aren’t websites - they’re fundamental web 2.0 service infrastructure.
Those organisations who doing great things in the web2.0 space are those who do […]
A challenge for you
July 31, 2007 – 1:33 pm
The regular reader of this blog would know the team wants to make what’s hard about collection management easy. This week’s meeting asked the question what’s hard about meta-data.
The answer is of course is creating ‘correct’ metadata. For example how would you extract the subject out of a website, PDF, Word doc, audio file […]
Deliberately getting it wrong
July 6, 2007 – 4:54 pm
I have become a fan of getting it wrong. Deliberately.
Ultimately it saves me a lot of time.
To explain: currently we are modelling how education.au intranet could be structured. All my preparations for this - content management, portal home page, security model mock-ups have been put up with the proviso that it’s probably totally wrong (requires […]
The most significant internet safety message for 2007?
May 30, 2007 – 11:40 am
danah boyd’s blog post ‘Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization‘ for me as a parent is the most significant individual blog post I have read online. It intelligently deals with children, internet safety, identity, peer pressure, online social networking and practical suggestions for society’s response.
The same issues inform web development and online […]
The itch of innovation
May 18, 2007 – 5:21 pm
You might have noticed in my last blog post the diagram showing an ‘itch’. I just wasn’t happy with Vision as being the most central element of the innovation process - there’s another step before this.
POC2 Collection Management highlighted this. Before creating the vision we referred to our brief and asked:
What’s hard about […]
Monitor flickr Hz
May 17, 2007 – 1:33 pm
Electrons are pulsing down miles of copper wire, through unknown number of circuit boards and back out again to polarise liquid crystals on a someone’s computer screen just to show an image loaded micro-seconds ago onto the flickr website.
People are pouring hundreds of images per second into flickr - seemingly senseless activity that’s open to […]
