The Nice New Net
The fourth platform.
“Nice is the new black”
Daniel Ben-Horin – President (CompuMentor) – USAÂ
[tags]cu07[/tags]
May 14, 2007
Wireless un-access at the Hyatt
Thought I’d try saving my 3G net access on my pda so went looking for wireless access. This is the message I get in the Hyatt in Adelaide.
Welcome to Broadband Internet Access
Access Credentials
User Name :
Password :
A pre-paid card is required to use this service. These can be purchased from the hotel.
Unused time on pre-paid cards is not refundable.
Wonder how much more business there is in offering wireless access bundled with conferences.
Australian Broadband – View from both sides of Government.
Live blogging from the CU07 conference. Here’s notes from first couple keynotes from both sides of Government.
It’s all as I heard it – ymmv.
Senator Helen Coonan – Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (LIB)
Internet (broadband) – The fifth utility
Opposes ALP ‘fibre to the node’
Telstra
G9 (Optus led)
Won’t build where industry will.
Communication fund $9 Billion (for country etc).
Top 10 OECD countries for BB takeup.
$162M broadband connect fund for regional.
National BB Network for regional areas. To be completed 2009.
$562.5 M has been put nto Innovative programs for ICT.
E-strategy guide launched CU06 (seems old to me)
3rd Section Expansion Program – 3STEP report
Taking paper to OCC
$113M Clever Networks Program..?
Disability ?
Paper-Broadband …
Guidelines for 2nd round Clever Networks program released.
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Senator Stephen Conroy- Shadow Minister for Communications & Information Technology (ALP)
Burrito project on myspace as example of scaleable commity project.
BB more than just faster internet.
Is important economic Infrastructure as important as other utilities.
Issue moved from IT pages to front pages.
Up there with Education & Climate change.
Speed rated 26/30
Quality 21st
Minister told office to stop collection of these stats re Bb.
Australia BB backwater.
Touched on de-centralisation. Tele-working.
ALP would provide $4.7Bn over 5 years in collaboration with private.
Fibre to node network.
Deliver absolute min 12mb/s to 98% country.
Telstra & G9 (Optus led) network Govt. Mentioned would only build for 5 cap cities and major centres.
[tags]cu07[/tags]
May 10, 2007
ConnectingUp 2007
Next week I’m off to ConnectingUp 2007 Conference. This is Australia’s premiere conference for Non Profit Technology ventures. And lucky for me it’s held in Adelaide.
I’ll be doing a bit of live blogging from the event from my phone so look out here for that or on Technorati for the cu07 tag.
If you are taking photos or blogging about the conference, use cu07 tag and keep an eye out on delicious for http://del.icio.us/tag/cu07.
I will be hanging in the ‘Starting your blog’ Part 1 workshop on day one giving my mate Mike Seyfang support and anyone a hand where needed.
[tags]adelaide, cu07[/tags]
May 7, 2007
May 4, 2007
My Second Life exploits get a write up
My exploits in Second Life have been picked up on in an article on eurekastreet.com.au.
From the article titled “Flying with disability in Second Life”
Australian David Wallace, a quadriplegic who works as an IT coordinator at the South Australian Disability Information and Resource Centre in Adelaide has also found an outlet for his artistic side in Second Life. He recently held an exhibition of his Second Life art at the building that Illinois-based Bradley University have established on Information Island.
The article is well written by Margaret Cassidy, go take a look….
Thanks to a comment from a reader, Janet, for the heads-up.
Dave
May 3, 2007
MungeBrother Twitter Pipe
Just made my first yahoo pipe to follow just my fellow Munge Brothers feeds and tweets between them and a couple select friends.
Ahh…filter=signal
Puzzle for the day
A friend posed the following puzzle. See what answer you come up with.
A brick weighs 7kg plus half its weight.
What’s the weight of the brick?
Dave
