http://dnwallace.com/blog the blog of david n wallace Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:55:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some interesting thoughts in an article titled "Social Media’s Effect on Learning" over on a WSJ Blog. Some snippets: “Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,” “Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities." "This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/15/network-learning-social-media-helps-us-learn/ apana-award.jpg Originally uploaded by dnwallace Going through some old papers turned up this 'pseudo-award' the APANA (SA) people gave me back in 1994 when I was hosting their server at work feeding APANA with newsgroups from Adelaide uni via SLIP. Was probably Leigh Hart, Mark Newton, Adrian Corston or John Lindsay inspired. ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/15/apana-award-jpg/ Getting my #macheist nanoBundle. Great deal. http://www.macheist.com # Good Tuesday everyone. # Off to see the Doc. # @fang Not unless she sigs it outloud! #copyright in reply to fang # Lurking... checking out tinychat in operation. very impressive http://tinychat.com/androidsuperusers # Productivity Commission undertaking an inquiry into a National Disability Long-term Care and Support Scheme. ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-14/ Waiting scenes - pickup Originally uploaded by dnwallace Picking up the boy. Can't see much I know, but sometimes waiting is like that. Dave in waiting http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/10/waiting-scenes-pickup/ Scenes while waiting - homemade style lemonade Originally uploaded by dnwallace I sometimes do a lot of waiting - so pass time playing with my phone. Think I'll start  a scenes while waiting meme on my blog. This time I'm waiting for a script to be filled by the chemist. Ok I know ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/09/scenes-while-waiting-homemade-style-lemonade/ Interesting: "The Death of Print Journalism - a set on Flickr" http://j.mp/bDqmPw [via @ccarfi] # @fang your sciencetypes might like this? "The Carbon-Economy Opportunity | Design & Innovation " http://j.mp/dt82yX # Wednesday. Humpday. Great. # @fang Check under your pillow. They sometimes fall off :) in reply to fang # A new egsperingment for ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/ Xmines-DSCN0915.JPG Originally uploaded by dnwallace Very effective display at Adelaide Railway Station entrance by Red Cross [from recollection] against land mines and exploitation of children as weapons and casualties of war. Outside the door was a hop-skotch game drawn on the ground in chalk, with a pattern that would've gone 1,2,3/4,5,BANG ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/04/kids-guns-and-landmines/ "video will account for 90 percent of all Internet traffic by 2013." Cisco Systems http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/04/quote-video-traffic/ JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/03/state-of-the-internet-infographic/ Mark Pesce in his contribution to a piece on ABC Unleased shares in "My dreams for 2010" What Mark refers to as depth is what Linda Stone calls “the next aphrodisiac” in her talk at Supernova 2005 - Full Focused Attention.  Five years into Linda’s 20 year cycle framework of culture, ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/02/depth-full-focus-attention/ "The processes of recording and sharing help make things “real” by expanding their significance in our lives." dana boyd [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/26/obsessively_rec.html] http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/03/02/quote-sharing-makes-real/ @fang Mate..wait to the lobster Killer scene in J&J .. try NOT to get Talking Heads stuck in your brain... in reply to fang # Monday. Struggling. Slow. # Trying to find a podcast feed I can stick in my catcher on "Gov 2.0 Radio" http://j.mp/djhbYZ - failing. # @WoollyMittens Hey mate.. you ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/28/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-02/ Boy dropped :( Dinner eaten :) Now lookin for somethin to watch :/ # Even Big Ben's getting in on Valentine's day : RT @big_ben_clock: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? # Neat: "YouTube - Lego Augmented Reality" http://j.mp/d4o1km # @kentnewsome will grok this piece by @docsearls: "EOF - The ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/21/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-21/ tuneglue Originally uploaded by dnwallace So, I thought I'd checkout Son Volt [http://www.sonvolt.net/] after I started with Drive by Truckers and found out that via Two Cow Garage and The Bottle Rockets, that Son Volt was a common link between The BottleRockets and Drive by Truckers. I figured as I like DBT that, ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/19/tuneglue/ Hello Monday # @scenariogirl how's you lisa? on hols still? in reply to scenariogirl # Hiho hiho it's off to the Dr I go ... # home again, home again ... # Geez.. the whole #foxtel site is Flash # Mailing Postsecrets to someone # Chatting on ph with @woollymittens .. 37c in #adelaide is not ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/ Mystery Tool #1 Originally uploaded by dnwallace Anyone know what this tool is used for? A friend has had it in his drawer over 20years and we can't figure it out. The long shaft rotates and turns the inner dial. The outer dial turns also, slower than the inner. Whole thing is about length of ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/10/mystery-tool-1/ Just discovered John Callahan http://bit.ly/clII6K thru this vid : http://bit.ly/c5v6qH - Instant affinity! [sensibility warning] # In bed, watching Black Adder ... Darling # @mpesce @trib So what's the term for the person who's reader/writer? pfkata? in reply to mpesce # @fang Wish I was there ... in reply to fang # Run outta ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-07/ The other day whilst reading a feed somewhere in my hundreds, I came across a link to a video .. this video in fact : I instantly felt a recognition and affinity and especially wth the subtleties in the kaos (yes, oh yes, there’s subtleties), so much so it sent ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/02/affinity-humanity-and-disability/ "We should be seeking to foster play in our information policy; it is a structural condition of human flourishing." [berkman] Julie Cohen on networked selves [via http://j.mp/cBOXYS] http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/02/01/quote-play/ Lifekludger New post: Make Open source hardware list 2009 http://cli.gs/YyYdH # Rotten connection still, Ping times shot to hell & packet loss. All plans reverted till tomorrow...then make some calls. #not #happy #jan # So, badlink report: blamed on RIM (probably correctly) now gotta jump thru hoops to get test done. Here's ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/31/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-31/ Lifekludger New post: One Touch Automatic Jar Opener « Gadgetuser.net – The latest gadgets reviews and gadget shop http://cli.gs/Yd2Pb # Of @kentnewsome's Five Indisputable Tech Facts for 2010, I like "Facebook is the new AOL" best! http://bit.ly/8bY0Iy # Hmmm... an #evernote update. Wonder if they've listened to @kentnewsome's pleas (not holding breath) ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/24/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-24/ So, if we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask what the opposite of “open” is. No one is proposing a closed Internet. When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of “open” is “theirs.” David Weinberger http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/21/quote-opposite-open/ There isn't some radical shift in norms taking place. What's changing is the opportunity to be public and the potential gain from doing so. Danah Boyd : apophenia: Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/20/quote-public-privacy/ "And that’s how we get the American Cinternet. Don’t encircle it yourself. Get the feds to make ISPs into liable intermediaries forced to practice “self discipline” the Chinese way: a “graduated response” that encircles the Net, reducing it to something less: a spigot of filtered “content” that Hollywood approves. Television ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/20/quote-content-o-net/ I am more of a ‘synthesyst’ than an ‘analyst’ (stowe boyd) http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/18/quote-synthesyst/ Lifekludger New post: Kind Reminder - Comfort for people with Alzheimer's http://cli.gs/8GeJ0 # Watching: "Mike Arrington interrogates Mark Zuckerberg \ techcrunch on USTREAM. The Web" http://j.mp/6qZtEx # Nice to have some cooler weather. Off to buy myself a Birthday present. # Watching this video with my boy : stunned : http://bit.ly/PtUyT : Priceless. ... http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/17/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-17/ Technology is the tool - the value is in social infrastructure. (unknown) http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/16/quote-social-infrastructure/ The web isn’t democratic. Web culture is based on networks (Unknown source) http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/15/quote-culture/ The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation… — Tim Berners-Lee, www creator via straight.com http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/14/quote-web/ Cover what you do best. Link to the rest - Jeff Jarvis http://dnwallace.com/blog/2010/01/13/quote-link-2/