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Mike’s running some workshops for newcomers to the blogosphere. Here’s links to some newcomers.

Testlambsy’s Weblog 

 Testleroy’s Weblog

Anneltest’s Weblog

Testlobster’s Weblog

Testlpearce’s Weblog

Michaelyptest’s Weblog

That IT Guy’s Weblog

Welcome folks….are you all in the ‘test’ family?

Birthday in 3 letters

Originally uploaded by dnwallace

Was my Birthday today.

3 letters made all the difference.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/tags/birthday2008/

Yes. According to this survey, I’m 84% addicted to blogging.

84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
And why the hell not.

How addicted are you?

Dave

Wordcamp to me was the right un-conference at the right time.

At work we’ve been going through some tough stuff after getting near 50% of our budget cut earlier this year. I’ve been re-evaluating everything we do and trying to gaze into the future and direct the IT side of our frail mothership forward. Slash-and -Burn and re-group kinda thing. We’d been through a few ideas and came to wpmu as a platform to drive us forward.

I wanted to get a feel for where we stood with wpmu and alaso take opportunity to plug my programmer colleague, Trent, into some of the WP network/community and give him some exposure to it.

The trip was definitely worth it. I gained some good strategic ideas and clarfied some of my thinking thanks to the sharing of experiences by those attending and those speaking. It was good to see examples of people actually using wordpress in the different ways I’d been thinking we could use it as well.

Trent got enthused about lots of things, microformats being one , and within a few days had implemented them on his own blog. We also tried to pimp the Flickr Manager Plugin for Wordpress he’s written, which allows you to upload and manage and include your Flickr photos in your blog posts all from your wordpress - you can find a copy of Flickr Manager v1.0 Plugin v1.0 here.

So, thanks to all who made the camp happen and made us welcome. Look forward to more sharing in the future.

To top it all off I won a door prize of a iPod Nano.

Photos of me at wordcamp:

Trent n I after a hard days wordcamp and walk home in the wind

Back of my head at the panel

Me looking all serious at Chris Burgess at the Non-Profit roundtable 

Me at yet another round table - not so serious this time  (with @cait on my left)

All photos on flickr tagged wcm07

Videos etc over at Eight Black 

Dave

So, I’m in Melbourne for Wordcamp. [melbourne.wordcamp.org]

Nice apartment, fast, fast net access.

See you there if you’re going…if not stay tuned.

UPDATE: The above graph was created by the broadband test Facebook application.

Sometimes I have troubles deciding where something I write fits. I’m torn between this blog or  lifekludger. There’s so much of  me that overlaps both.

So, for those who might read this blog but not the other, there’s something over on my Lifekludger blog I wrote titled “Isolation kills” you might be interested in.

Isolation kills - Lifekludger

Dave

The latest EELS podcast is up. In it we welcome Kent as a new co-host.

EELS 32 - 24th August 2007 - Introducing kent

Interestingly, Chris Carfi, who we had on show #30, has posed a timely post on one of the topics we talk about on the latest show.

From his full post here :

quote from Debra Aho Williamson: “[Display advertising] is the ‘low-hanging fruit’ and the real potential of social networks has yet to be tapped.”

Dave

Technorati Tags: chris carfi, eels032, podcast, advertising

“And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context”.

Back here somewhere in 2005 I was hung up on the concept of context.

Well, it’s recently been surfacing again and I serendipitously came across a clipping I made back in beginning of 2006 as I was thinking about it back then. Somehow it seemed timely.

“CONSTELLATIONS OF CONTEXT FROM CHAOS”

David Weinberger, co-author of the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto and author of an [then] upcoming book about tagging called Everything is Miscellaneous, explains that when knowledge was imprisoned on paper, it had to be stored in one place, under one address, usually with the one-dimensional Dewey decimal system. But thanks to the internet and tags, knowledge is now freed from the bonds of paper and can be found from many directions: you could discover this page online via any number of Google searches, or through bloggers’ links, or because somebody tagged it under “tagging” or “blather” or both. Then you could use services like Del.icio.us or Technorati.com to find more, now related content filed under those same tags. And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context.

[clipped from www.buzzmachine.com
Guardian column: Tagging; Jeff Jarvis
Monday January 2, 2006
The Guardian]

Emphasis added.

More later maybe.
Dave

As a kind of update to my last post here, Doc, in his usual succinctness, hits the silo nail on the head.

Social Silo Liberation Front
…. I, like Dave, am snowed under by too many requests to join competing social silos.
Social groups to which I belong in the physical world do not compete. They do not carry advertising. They do not have business models. They are not gathered so somebody else can make money. Except maybe at work. Maybe.
….
For all their goodness, these “networks” are silly. They are also as temporary and annoying in their competitive isolation as Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL were, back in the day (or the decade). Those things were Net-unfriendly long before their surviving members became Net-native.

Just like in the real-world, people are in many places, we don’t all need to be in the same place to connect and communication flows two ways.

Dave

[via Kent]

Technorati Tags: doc searls, kent newsome, facebook, silo, social

Here’s my submission of blogs for Kent’s Swivel feeds experiment.

jp rangaswami - confused of calcutta - http://confusedofcalcutta.com
jp is a kind of information hero of mine. something about how he sees things just clicks with me in totally perpendicular ways. he’s the cio of bt global services.

nick hodge - mungenet - http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/
Uncle Nick is a Munge Brother of Mike’s (and more recently mine). He’s a smart cookie, all round good guy and professional geek at Microsoft…says so on his business card. likes subverting hierarchies (come to think of it, that seems a Munge trait).

hugo ortega - ubertablet blog - http://ubertablet.blogspot.com/
hugo is a tablet freak but more than that he’s a great guy. he’s also the first and rare person who actually lends me gear to test drive and review on lifekludger. and he was the very first guest on the very first show of our podcast for a reason totally not tech related and for which you’ll have to listen to find out.

beth kanter - beth’s blog - http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/
beth is a one woman non profit technology blog phenomenon who loves Cambodian kids. read her, learn from her, support her, hire her!

father bob - father bob maguire - http://www.fatherbob.com.au/
father bob is a often cantankerous, often quipping, 70-something catholic priest with a heart bigger than kent’s home state, gold as the sun and spot on with care attitude - turned new media denizen. bob appears anywhere he can get his message of helping the poor out including an abc radio show, tv, and a podcast on tpn. even if you don’t subscribe, put a tip in his foundation’s paypal account. a buck a week is good.

So there you have it. My reads for Kent’s swivel feed experiment. An eclectic mix. Hope you enjoy something from there.

Dave

Technorati Tags: nick hodge, kent newsome, jp rangaswami, ubertablet, hugo ortega, bethkanter, munge, fbmf, father bob