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 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)
Posted in technology on Apr 1st, 2007
Sending a wave to Dave Winer today as Scripting News celebrates it’s tenth birthday - congratulations, Dave, and thank you for all you have done for the medium! We carry our essential selves into the blogosphere, so it is a medium that has all the same challenges as the real world; but I love it [...]
Posted in craft, fun, make, technology on Oct 31st, 2006
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Mar 31st, 2006
Jose at titereblog has built a specialized puppetry search engine using Swiki. How cool is that! Thanks for the link to my puppetry links at del.icio.us, too, Jose.
I’ve just realized that my favourite puppetry blogs like titereblog and PuppetVision weren’t in my del.icio.us pages, because I am subscribed to their feeds, and read their posts [...]