http://mark-elliott.net/blog work, research, family, art ... life Fri, 29 May 2009 00:12:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Via the Collabforge blog A question I'm often asked by clients, friends and people just passing by on the street is, 'so what's the big deal with Twitter anyway?' This is of course a great question - that is, how is Twitter different than Facebook or any other social networking platform and ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=55 Last week was pretty intense, here was my schedule: Sunday 26 Apr - New York After a very cramped 24hr flight I arrived at JFK in New York and while I was tired, I was buzzing with excitement... Monday 27 Apr - New York The view out of my hotel window when I woke ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=54 This is undoubtedly a fantastic video that highlights the interconnection yet independence of individual creative efforts on social media sites such as YouTube. However I don't think it is right to call it any form of collaboration - unless there were multiple people putting this track together (as opposed to simply ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=53 We recently returned from a week in the Daintree in the far north of Queensland - way up there in the tropical jungle with the crocodiles (tho we never saw any). We did see lots of amazing butterflies, a spotted tree monitor (the big lizard pictured below), a male cassowary with ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=52 http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=51 I just saw this this morning (emphasis mine): THE Federal Government is planning to make internet censorship compulsory for all Australians and could ban controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia. Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as countries including China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=50 It's been a few months since my last update on Cedar and Lucas, and of course a lot has happened in that time. (in the photo: Cedar left, Lucas right) They're moving from the 'telegraphic' phase of speach (two word combinations) to the beginnings of sentence construction. The other day, Cedar said ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=48 I'm in the process of migrating my phd from the wiki where I wrote it, to this site. I thought I'd write a post for each chapter as I get them up. You can find more out about my phd here, or in the links in the banner. So, here's ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=47 As part of One Web Day (a global event to celebrate and take stock of the value the web provides humanity) Future Melbourne took part, with Melbourne's Lord Mayor John So as the 55th One Web Day ambassador, as well as hosting a event to communicate our experiences to those ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=45 Via Future of Humanity Insititute: RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about 30,000 ... http://mark-elliott.net/blog/?p=44