Attention ladies and gentlemen allies! I’ll be speaking at the Australian Computer Society/Microsoft next week in Perth, so if you’re around I hope you can join me! A Lady’s Guide to Kicking Ass with Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie Drawing on her global adventures as a game designer, technologist, and social entrepreneur, Kate will share her favourite […]
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The downunder Facebook invasion has begun
academic australia facebook perth thesisIt has started. Last year it was all MySpace in Perth, but I’ve started overhearing conversations about Facebook on the street and seeing kids using it on the computers at school. Then this morning, while looking for info on their super gross breakfasts for a top secret project, I found out that Hungry Jack’s (the […]
silicon beach
australia barcampperth byteme perth web2.0perth had its first ever barcamp last month. con wiebrands (the ass-kicking curtin librarian who helped convince the evil tech admins to unblock twitter and facebook on campus) and i did a talk on explaining web 2.0 to n00bs, such as older folks or university admin who think the internet is full of pedophiles and […]
barcamp perth
australia barcamp barcampperth microsoft perth redbullthe first ever barcamp perth is this weekend, and i’m pretty excited. i’ve been totally deprived of web 2.0ness for the past few months. i even signed up to do a talk on introducing web 2.0 to nongeeks. i’m going to draw on my experiences introducing the living platform and openpolitics.ca to non-techies and training […]
the trouble with web 2.0
australia barcamp curtin perth thesis web 2.0 web2.0the other day, i went to a workshop for phd students. no one was sitting there on their laptops half listening while they blogged or looked at web comics. everyone was sitting attentively, making notes on paper, with pens! i told this story to luke last night. i was telling him about how perth has […]