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Is social computing just increasing our anxiety?
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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More tasty #livelocal fun
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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Live local love continues
Even though I've finished my Live Local 7 day challenge the amazing support from people both online and offline continues. An example of this is the very kind @jrobens who dropped off a new plant for my garden at lunch yesterday. Now I've got a curry
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Live local challenge - what I learned #livelocal
Approach My approach was that of an ordinary outer suburban Sydney dweller. I wanted to see how easy it would be to live locally using the local shopping sources - malls, supermarkets, farmer's markets - without travelling long distances to specialist sources. I also broadened my thinking to
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Live local challenge day 7 #livelocal
Had long distances to travel today - starting with a meeting with some of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) folks at the Garvan Institute in Darlinghurst. We were discussing Smart Technology for Healthy Longevity . It was nice to catch up with Craig Mudge & Gordon Bell
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Chief Economist cares about the future!
Here's Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist with Austrade (who's also known as the Airport Economist), talking about why the Future Summit was on his agenda: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8sCHQw8Eo&w=425&h=344]
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Live local challenge day 6 #livelocal
One of the many things that this challenge has taught me is what season it is now. Up until this time I had never really bothered with little details like that because it did not matter to me. There was no reason to pay attention, apart from the obvious weather
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Live local challenge day 5 #livelocal
The rain finally stopped today and everyone in town took the opportunity to get out and about. Parents had clearly sent their children out to run off some energy and it was nice to watch a couple of boys throw their boomerangs in the park. The dogs finally got a
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Neighbourhood vegetable garden #livelocal
Finally braved the rain yesterday afternoon to visit a neighbour - who's got a nice vegetable garden instead of lawn in her front yard (that's a picture of it on the right). She's been away and it was our first chance to catch up
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Where does soap come from? #livelocal
This morning as we were washing the dogs I started to wonder where soap and the other cleaning supplies come from. Again, this is not a topic I've ever pondered before. But it is not just food that we consume. We consume many other products - almost unthinkingly