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Do not forget that BarCampSydney5 (#bcs5), the recession edition, is on Saturday 27 June 2009. The BarCamp motto is: No spectators, only participants. According to Jodie Miners, one of the un-organisers, there's over 170 people registered to attend, lots of great sponsors and a great new venue. Apparently
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Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I've been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I've seen its powerful properties of network amplification working in practice. My friend and colleague Mark Pesce has recently discussed
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It has been a few weeks since we did the Live Local Challenge and Rebecca and I decided to catch up for breakfast. We decided that our reunion had to incorporate local and sustainable foods. Luckily the night before I'd stayed in Camperdown after Stilgherrian's Project
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For those who continue to think that Twitter is all about pimple faced geeks sitting alone in the dark at home tapping away on their computers here's another real life event that shows differently. Last Saturday a bunch of us gathered to farewell our friend Stilgherrian as he
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Very soon my dear friend Stilgherrian shall embark on a big adventure in a good cause. As outlined in this most excellent cartoon by the esteemed FirstDogOnMoon, Stilgherrian is going on a mission for ActionAid. Why not go have a look at the ActionAid site and see how you can
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OMG someone who truly understands exactly how the social media world works! From Despair Inc. Hat Tip: Color Lovers via @Tarale
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OMG someone who truly understands exactly how the social media world works! From Despair Inc. Hat Tip: Color Lovers via @Tarale
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Today is my grandmother's birthday. She passed away many years ago, but in so many ways she is with me everyday. Until I was quite grown up she did not have any other name for me than 'Nan'. But as I grew I learned that her
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This month is the 65th anniversary of the D Day landings in France and on June 6th, as a kind of remembrance, I watched the film Overlord. The film brought back memories of my visit to Normandy late last year. Walking over the ground where the landings happened was very
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My friend and colleague Stilgherrian is involved in one of the more interesting projects around these days: Project TOTO. Some background There used to be an NGO called Austcare, and they've just changed their name to ActionAid Australia. Project brief TanzaniaActionAid AustraliaAustcare Now this is going to be
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Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord. This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th June 1944. It is a fascinating film, interweaving