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on the network this month
A whole bunch of home grown content on the network this month. Elroy has reviewed Frisky Dingo Season 2 and Tokyo Gore Police. He’s also been ramping up the Twitter action for Powers Cosmic so if you’re not following yet, make sure to add @powerscosmic. To chat to the stars you can always add @elroyonline, [...]
Catchup – ConnectingUp 09
Monday and Tuesday of this week saw me in Sydney for Connecting Up 09. This is an annual conference that focuses on technology in the Australian community services sector. This year the emphasis was on Web 2.0 and the ideas that surround it. It was a massive two days, almost an overdose, but the quality [...]
Public Sphere #1 High Speed Broadband in Aus
The first Public Sphere event has just finished It’s been an information packed, thought provoking few hours. Here’s a brief rundown of material that has resulted: Official Public Sphere event details on Senator Kate Lundy’s site. The Twitter feed from the morning. Craig Thomler’s liveblog from the event. Tom Worthington’s blog (Including links to the [...]
Three Sweet WordPress plugins
I’m developing a list of recommended extensions and plugins for members of CASE. There is some excellent free software out there. BuzzMoo.com has been running on WordPress for quite some time now and there are a few plugins I just can’t do without. Here are my current top three! (in the top three because they’re [...]
Rafe on Radio Proglas
This could be Rafe’s first mention on BuzzMoo.com! Well, we go way back. And now he’s on the other side of the world doing a live set for Czech radio very early in the morning for some reason. If you like cheeky folk (potentially a new sub-genre I’m coining just for him) or comedy and [...]
Melbourne Joomla Day 09
Yesterday I flew down to Melbourne (managing to make my day trip for the city’s hottest day, ever!) for Joomla Day ’09, hosted by the Melbourne Joomla User’s Group, at Melbourne University. The day was well balanced and very valuable. The audience of around sixty comprised of people who had never used Joomla before, to [...]
RIP Charles Wesley Cooper III
I’ve been anticipating Telefon Tel Aviv’s new album for quite some time now. This evening, devestating news reached me of the death of Charlie Cooper, one half of the group. From their Myspace: “Hello, Everyone. It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, passed away [...]
CASE in The Canberra Times
Computing Assistance Support and Education, or CASE to its friends, had a visit from The Canberra Times last week and made a nice article in Monday’s Canberra Times Computer section. It looks at CASE’s history and structure and also details the recent work with the Dharriwaa Elders Group in the remote community of Walgett. If [...]
no more need for no clean feed
The “No Clean Feed” movement here an attempt to raise awareness about the Australian Government’s plan to institute ISP and national level IP data filtering. I didn’t rush out and sign a petition, nor join the Facebook group because I figured the whole deal was going to be a non-starter. Not that I think you [...]
CASE’s One laptop per child open day – brief review
Just back from CASE‘s One Laptop per Child Open Day, held this afternoon in Belconnen. We had a good time with a dozen or so people showing up. Visitors were introduced to the laptop and then had the opportunity to play with them and experience the feel of one. This stimulated a good amount of [...]
Insight from from East Africa
Following the recent donation of 5000 XO laptops, Rwanda is on the move. From a Ugandan newspaper comes a report of a large scale adoption of the program within the country. The reporter also has further insight on education in developing nations: “The reason the political leadership has never bothered with providing quality education in [...]
breaking news: OLPC XOs come to Canberra
I’m pleased to announce… ===== For Immediate Release 14 October, 2008 One Laptop Per Child Open Day Computing Assistance Support & Education (CASE) will be hosting Canberra’s first One Laptop Per Child Open Day Monday 27 October 2008 3.00pm at Volunteering ACT 55 Chandler Street (corner of Chandler and Cameron Streets) Belconnen. Pia Waugh, open source software [...]
Inugami
The foreign-film-fest continues at Elroy Online with a look at Masato Harada’s Inugami. A not-quite-Jhorror title that calls to Japans rich mythological history to add a little depth to the story, apparently! My only experience with any Jhorror was The Ring 3 (I think?) but I enjoyed that, and as Elroy gives Inugami the thumbs up, I’m [...]
The Emerging Netbook Market
I’ve put together a short brief to bring anyone out of the loop into the loop in regards to netbook computing. A static link to this article can be found in the articles section. What is a “Netbook”? The term “netbook” refers to a low-cost, small-sized, energy-efficient laptop computer. The term has only begun to [...]
Challenging the notion of competition
Since beginning my OLPC adventure I’ve been staying on top of the chatter as best I can. After a few weeks of watching carefully, I’m concerned about some of the language used to relate to the project and projects like it. The web has taken a positive tone to the social goals of low cost [...]
