@Herne then what are you waiting for. must have. get that Genie b4 gets away Eggs are the best! in reply to Herne #

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@GeordieGuy ES .. never was good at maths in reply to GeordieGuy #

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@stilgherrian I do say, sir, you could be quite correct there.. in reply to stilgherrian #

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Just realised, my ideal quick flow/blogging solution would most likely currently be solved if Evernote had a “Blog This” button #evernote #

@kerryank and said strangers should be given 4 glasses of red wine for having to listen in reply to kerryank #

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Last year a blog post by Mark Pesce titled “Those Wacky Kids” contained this paragraph:

 

Mizuko Ito, a Japanese researcher, studied teenagers in Japan a few years ago, and found that these kids – from the moment they wake up in the morning, until they drop off to sleep at night – are enaged in a continuous and mostly trival conversation with, on average, five other friends. They might be in the flat next door, or on the other side of Tokyo. Proximity doesn’t matter. What does matter is the constant connection. Ito named this phenomenon “co-presence”. It seemed a bit too science-fiction wacky-technophile Japanese, at the time.

[http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=56 ]

 

I just rediscovered this in some little used backwater of my online tools after saving it there ages ago.

 

The bold highlighted part is the bit that struck me, not simply because it’s obviously what’s going on with social networks and why things like Twitter are so popular - I’ve always seen Twitter as a ‘presence‘ app, but primarily because it’s what I’ve craved and been for years living out to varying degrees in various places online.

 

It’s also what I see and experience as going on big time in Second Life. With a twist. There, the physical, geographic proximity of the residents [users of SL] in terms of where they live  certainly doesn’t matter (aside from the obvious problems differing timezones bring). And certainly, the relationships bought about by connection is the thing that keeps them returning.

 

However when in SL the issue of proximity does matter in terms of virtual geography. The “co-presence” spoken of is felt and made stronger by being in the same close virtual proximity with others in-world.

 

It’s why gatherings for dance partys with music live streamed in by DJ’s thrive, companies hold meetings, educators take classes, live music events where artists play in some remote physical location with their music streamed straight into the virtual gathering are extremely popular, it’s why people build homes and have friends around, and why they go exploring together, and develop close personal relationships, and why people gather in groups around in-world, often simplistic, puzzle style games that they share in the same virtual proximity with others - where the being with others is part of the enjoyment of the game - in my opinion, often moreso than the game itself.

 

Yes, in the physical world, proximity may be becoming less important for connection to others.

 

In the virtual word, proximity is everything and co-presence is made almost palpable.

 

Dave

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Here’s him reading it [audio]

My Chicken’s On the Internet

My chicken's on the Internet.
She surfs the web all day.
I've tried to stop her browsing
but, so far, there's just no way.

She jumps up on the mouse
and then she flaps around like mad
to click on every hyperlink
and every pop-up ad.

She plays all sorts of chicken games.
She messages her folks.
She watches chicken videos
and forwards chicken jokes.

She writes a blog for chickens
and she uploads chicken pics.
She visits chicken chat rooms
where she clucks about her chicks.

I wouldn't mind so much
except my keyboard's now a wreck.
She hasn't learned to type yet;
she can only hunt and peck.

@fang I’veheard of small pieces loosely joined … but you’re taking it to new heights! in reply to fang #

@Robbyc Naah mate. We just scatter-casters in reply to Robbyc #

@DeltaKnowledge I’d love to use one. Best read this to start with http://is.gd/xHv then these http://is.gd/ziWv in reply to DeltaKnowledge #

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The Social Web (Web 2.0 and beyond)
A brief tour of social networking tools with a view to developing strategies, plans and techniques for participating in online conversation with your stakeholders. Building on the ClueTrain assertion that “markets are conversations”, and taking cues from face to face conversation in “real life” we will take a brief tour of social media tools - paying more attention to those which help us listen. By the end of this session you should be able to begin listening for online conversations relevant to your work, and hopefully you will figure out how to gain some benefit from the old saying ‘you have two ears and one mouth - use them in that proportion’
Presenter:
Mike Seyfang - Social Media Consultant

@fang

ConnectingUp

Note: this is audio taken from a qik video taken with a mobile phone and stitched together with whatever source available so is not complete … audio quality varies accordingly.

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I’ve been watching the info coming out of Sydney from the ConnectingUp Conference (or, not coming out, with the connection probs they’ve been having).

This image shows the state of my screen as I was following stuff. Interestingly I heard Mike talk about me spending a lot of time in Second Life - which I was while watching #cua09 and at exactly as he said it.

I also had the twitter stream of the conference tag being displayed on my 40″ Sony TV across the other side of my room. I was using VisibleTwitter full screen, and would glance at it every so often.

You can catch a small video below, taken with my digital camera, of what it looked like.

VisibleTweets is from http://www.themaninblue.com/
Witter @visibletweets

This is from Allen Gunn, (Gunner) Executive Director of Aspiration.

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@jobsworth OK NWB CYL in reply to jobsworth #

now selling… one arm, one leg #

emailing support because my gift for Mum on Mother’s day was DOA #

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@jobsworth OK NWB CYL in reply to jobsworth #

now selling… one arm, one leg #

emailing support because my gift for Mum on Mother’s day was DOA #

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@kristinalford Is that actually possible? in reply to kristinalford #

@The_Rooster am now! in reply to The_Rooster #

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@scenariogirl excellent example of UX design? - http://is.gd/sRdA #

@fang and checking email re eels open science podcast #2 in reply to fang #

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Disabled people often poor
Thursday, 02 April 2009
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Economic hardship can be both a cause and a result of disability, according to the study. Image: iStockphoto There is a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and severe disability in capital cities, according to a report released 1 April 2009 by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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@cait The Global Brain in reply to cait #

@kentnewsome Yeah mate @myen works fine for me too - excellent stuff. Looking forward to way of passing it tags through. #

@TimNoonan How about “Tim Noonan kicks ass in the field of NonVisual communication” in reply to TimNoonan #

@TimNoonan If I ever experience your work, sure in reply to TimNoonan #

@cait RT @ccarfi: ha! steampunk segway: http://tinyurl.com/cv67l8 #

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Something about this is neat. The act of helping is so ingrained and helping robots reveals something inherent about our humanness. Were these ppl helping to be a part of something? Or because they knew there must be human behind it?

Unorganised crowd sourcing.

Fascinating.

Dave

[via David Weinberger]

@mickyj yuk mate. can’t say I miss that in reply to mickyj #

@kentnewsome Bloody amazing. They read my mind in reply to kentnewsome #

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@Tarale We’re just getting it going in reply to Tarale #

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@SilkCharm *laughs* As everybody on Facebook would be aware. Gee has it been a year already? I still never saw last gift in reply to SilkCharm #

@fang *looks at clock* Hi .. better start packing up to go home mate in reply to fang #

@fang Toss anything my way if need a hand. in reply to fang #

@SilkCharm *grins* Well I had to think of something special for my favourite Pixie. Have a fantasmagorical Birthday! *hugs* in reply to SilkCharm #

@scenariogirl but we’re only splitting hairs. in reply to scenariogirl #

@mickyj putt it this way, I might need my sunnies in reply to mickyj #

@Downes Bring a torch. Its dark down here at moment .. have a nice loooong flight. in reply to Downes #

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2.93GHZ INTEL CORE 2 DUO
4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM-2X2GB
NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 130 512MB
640GB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
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Went to footy, up on the hill under a tree for shade. Bad move, got a puncture.

In fact, last May I reported how Mike Arrington of TechCrunch was “outraged” by my suggestion that advertising was a bubble (or something to that effect… it’s in this podcast somewhere… maybe one of ya’ll can hunt down the quote).

Well, there’s a few quotes in there so I just snipped out the relevant section for you to listen to.

doc on gillmor gang

@NickHodge Poor Penny wouldn’t understand, too young in reply to NickHodge #

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rather than make me click through to their website to find the link …

That’s called providing options, which is the major part of accessibility, not to mention usability and effective distribution.

Dave

Now, don’t panic, I’m not ill and don’t intend on dying anytime soon. But it will happen. And it so happens that with recent changes in living arrangements I’ve been in the updating Will mode for a while. (Read there - I’ve been slack in finalising it.)

Anyhow, I was thinking about how we talk about how the things we do digitally are so more ’sticky’ or permanent and how one should be careful of what we put online as it will be ’searchable forever’. But will they? Forever is a long time and while I understand the sentiment in such arguments, the fact is that if I let my domains expire that a lot of what I do would be inaccesible. And someday even the information from them that is stored in google’s cache will be expired. Then, it will be gone. Much is said about how to not do things personally online that might jeopordise opportunities in the future, but I don’t see much about what to do if you actually do want to ensure the ongoing nature of the opportunities you have taken.

Now it might not be so bad for things to disappear, really, when it comes to anything personally I do. However I thought of Lifekludger as an entity and how I believe in what its potential is and how such potential might not be realised in my time. Lifekludger will depend on the increasing nature of online connetedness between people and so while progress and time might be on it’s side, time and progress isn’t for individual human beings.

So I thought about how much of what I do online is important to me and how much I value what it is I’m building oline - whether personally or otherwise. And I figured that if I was serious about it then I should do something to help it survive after me. Hence I thought of the Will.

Here’s my plan. I’m going to put in my Will that a certain sum of money be taken from my estate and put in an interest bearing account with responsibility of maintaining given domains and hosting company fees falling to a pre-determined and informed trusted person. I figure all these online cost are likely to get cheaper in future anyway so the outlay won’t be huge and interest might even account for most of it. At current prices I’d only be looking at about a $3-5k amount. And if Lifekludger finds legs before then well and good, my personal domain will survive even longer … FWIW

So there you have it. Have you thought about the longevity of your digital identity?

Dave - Lifekludger

PS: As would happen, after writing I see there’s a startup called Legacy Locker that deals with the distibution of passwords to online accounts. This doesn’t however allow for ongoing expenses involved but I might consider using a service like that in conjunction. That said, who will guarantee survival of a Third party online service?