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we need more lovable eccentrics
This kind of reads like one of those spamquotes that the purveyours of levitra were flooding my blog with a while back. But it’s a great quote all the same, and coming from one of my favourite utilitarians, it’s a hint towards proof that pragmatism can coexist with creative dissonance and the will to individuality:…
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this is not (only) music consumption
I’m feeling a bit serious about music today. This is the christmas playlist I put together on a whim yesterday morning, when I woke up and realised I had free rein over the construction of christmas day for the first time in years. Which, thank god, got me thinking again about the ways in which…
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It’s _that_ time of year
Well the grass is mowed at my place, we’re stocked up on culinary cliches, we have cold beer (good, because it’s HOT) and the right kind of DVDs (i.e. the direct inverse of the scary plastic christmas cheer that Television insists we must want), I’m armed with damien rice and jeanette winterson thanks to a…
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comments are back
So, this is what I hope will be the final compromise in my long and bloody battle against comment spam: I found a plugin for MT called mt-close2 which allows you to close off comments on entries older than a specified no. of days, and in particular categories – I am so grateful to the…
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A most convivial week
Last week we completed a digital storytelling workshop for the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories project – a QUT/Qld Dept of Housing project mainly involving oral histories of the area. The KGUV, including the spot where the QUT Creative Industries Precinct now stands, and where I work every day, used to be an army…
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rain, rain, rain
I need to write about the digital storytelling workshop I just finished, working with both young and very much older people on stories about the history of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village (most of which used to be a bloody big army parade ground). I also need to write about the CSAA conference, which has…
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wanna go to beijing?
Just got back from the CSAA conference in Perth, and am now both knackered and leading a week-long Digital Storytelling workshop – I have about 20,000 words of blogging to do about both of those. But for now, one of my lame “announcement” posts. I had the _best_ time at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer…
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Fields of Uncool Panel
What with all the nerves on the day, I didn’t notice this photo being taken and can’t recall whether it shows us gearing up for the panel or gearing up for the pub afterwards…in any case, this is us at the csaa conference – for us, the culmination of nine months of emails and some…
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The ProAm Revolution
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: “The ProAm Revolution: How enthusiasts are changing our economy and society”, Charlie Leadbeater’s full-length report for Demos (with Paul Miller), is now available for purchase or free download. From astronomy to activism, from surfing to saving lives, Pro-Ams – people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards –…
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I Know, I Know
I’ve been quiet here. But as Ben says, silence in a blog means that there is a whole lot of shakin’ going on elsewhere. In my case, finally facing up to writing the actual words and (hopefully) sentences I’m going to be speaking at the CSAA conference on Thursday, making sure the digital storytelling workshop…