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Paul Fenwick, a consummate and hilarious presenter at past BarCampMelbourne events, lived up to his reputation and had the audience in stitches with his talk on 'Hacking other peoples' brains'. The entire premise of his talk is that as geeks, we need to translate inter…
Brianna Laugher, the President of WikiMedia Australia - a not for profit organisation dedicated to promoting access to and participation in free cultural networks, presented on 'So we ruined the encyclopaedia - now what?'. Her talk first posed the question of whether the encyclopaedia really…
Jodi, who has recently completed her Masters in interactive gaming, started her discussion by exploring what pervasive gaming meant to different people. It was clear that while there several gamers (both hobbyists and hardcore) in the audience, there weren't a lot of people with a…
Gian Wild works in accessibility at Monash University and has been heavily involved in web and accessibility standards development, including the eGovernment web accessibility toolkit for Victorian Government. The point of adhering to accessibility standards is to ensure that people with disabilities are able to…
Along with Ben Balbo, Dave Hall (aka 'skwashd'), Donna Benjamin (aka 'KatteKrab') and Joshua May (aka 'notjosh') I've been helping to organise a BarCamp in central Victoria, known as StixCamp. The location for this year's StixCamp is Welshman's Reef Vineyard, near Newstead. After swapping cars…
You've probably heard of the BarCamp phenomenom which brings together technically minded folks in a forum to share, innovate, learn and collaborate. Victoria has now had two BarCamps, both organised by Ben Balbo. The first, in rural Victoria was held in 2007 with a very…
In a follow up to my earlier post on HDTV, I'm pleased to report that HDTV is now working. My previous attempts to get this working resulted in the conclusion that my antenna was, politely, end of life (or in other words a heap of…
Following on from the Making Links conference in November last year, one of the conference delegates raised a question with me regarding eliciting website requirements. So that everyone can benefit, I've attempted to answer the question here; I think where we need the assistance is…
The Seven Things is starting to take off in the blogosphere so thought I would do my bit... So, here's seven weird and wonderful things about yours truly; 1. My first computer program was in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum, stored to secondary memory on…
I have 9000 days left to live. Well, thereabouts anyway. How did I calculate this? By averaging the ages of death back a couple of generations on either side, factoring in underlying medical conditions, risky behaviour etc etc. It's not a perfect model. In short…