Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in technology on Mar 28th, 2008
Reading about stretchy circuit board development, it says that stretchiness is needed as well as thinness. I wonder if anyone has thought along the lines of a fibre mesh? (I’d guess so!) For instance, with paper mache, if you want to wrap around very smoothly, you use very small pieces of paper, and you […]
Posted in technology on Mar 27th, 2008
I started out in the social web in the mid 90’s at bulletin boards and discussion forums. When my focus shifted to blogs, the comments in blogging generally seemed a poor substitute, more like guest books. There were exceptions of course, but they were still gardens in the conversation marketplace.
I had an idea today that […]
Posted in environment, technology on Jan 14th, 2008
These days images are often shown at funerals. It is usually grainy old family photos looping on a roll-down portable screen. Imagine, instead, the church having a HDTV, and that you can stream chosen image feeds to it from your computer. If family and friends wanted to, they could contribute feeds that would become part […]
Posted in media, puppetry, puppets, technology on Dec 2nd, 2007
Amy writes about how Coke is at least making the right noises about respecting users wishes in relation to Facebook Beacon. Dave thinks Facebook was deliberately testing the waters. Of course leaking to test or dilute reaction has been a political tool for eons.
I’ve heard Roger Law, one of the creators of the famed satirical […]
Posted in technology on Oct 10th, 2007
I signed up to the local Freecycling mailing list today thinking it might be a good way to pass on some old household stuff. My heart sank when I saw it was a Yahoo groups list. I find Yahoo awkward to use - I seem to be asked to sign in at every click […]
Posted in media, newspapers, technology on Sep 22nd, 2007
Recent revisions of news websites have changed my news reading habits. It used to be that my first ports of call were the Fairfax papers - The Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald . I would scan the ABC for the most up-to-date and factual reporting. Then a quick look at The […]
Posted in technology, video on Jul 5th, 2007
So cute! Sophia’s Harry Potter is too.
(via Steve Garfield)
Posted in media, news, technology on Jun 22nd, 2007
The Australian Broadcasting Commission has again shown it’s willingness to adopt and make the most of new media with it’s shiny new ABC News site. It’s really cool - personalized tagging, great embedded video and audio, and an attractive interface, among other features.
Posted in pareidolia, technology on Jun 19th, 2007
I’ve been offline for a few days, the upshot being our house is now on a wireless network. Of course, there is still an orange and black tangle behind the tele where everything comes into the house to the set-top box. Funny to think that when we had the cable network put in seven years […]
Posted in technology on Jun 9th, 2007
TiddlyWiki, a ‘reusable non-linear personal web notebook‘, looks as if it offers lots of interesting possibilities. I’d like to try it out when I have some spare time.
(via Doc Searls)