Goog-411

IP : Your Rights

• I paid Brian Gardner for the privelege of using his code
• I continue to attribute his contributions to the code and have not in anyway removed his construction reference in the source code anywhere only added my only inclusion as a designer and web developer
• I understand the rights of others as my contributions to the web are made under Creative Commons 3.0 or 2.5 which this site is.
• When somebody builds something then I have no issue with the look / feel being emulated….in time we all want to look different and we natuarally make changes over time
• A web site should never be static…anyone that reads my sites knows that I change the look / feel constantly
• I believe in respecting the rights and IP of those brilliant people who build stuff on the web…likewise add your name to the code and use it but ensure that your not locking people out by removing attribution to them…in fact you’ll be embraessed in years to come when people start pointing back via the Internet Archive.

The following is the email I sent back to my friend and work colleague;

Great stuff [edited]

 

Point your son to http://creativecommons.org

 

I have no issue with anyone using anything except my credit card to pretend they are me so the them is of tiny consequence. I am currently in battles with a client who wont honour the IP rights of the designer who spent weeks coding a wikispace only to have her rights dishonoured by someone who wont attribute her IP.

 

It’s all about attribution which would be good to explore with your son….about respecting the rights of the designers and not ignoring the licensing of the code never mind the pictures.

 

I’m going to blog about this today so ask your son to read my latest post.

 

I  hope it will make some sense and when I can get the comments feature fixed he will be able to reply with you in tow

MobilizeThis 2008

A short excerpt from an email I fired off this morning;

Hi,

I consider as both a part time TAFE NSW employee and consultant in the field that Diigo is an invaluable tool for communicating with teams and individual teachers.

I output my Diigo tagging into Twitter so effectively I’m NOT dating only sharing my discoveries of good educational resources or events.

I also emulate my Diigo tags in del.icio.us effectively NOT dating but sharing again and connecting core business potential with my networks there also.

My Diigo and del.icious outputs alert me via email when others have added resources to my groups.

very handy and timely seeing as I’m chained to this p-2-p time waster call email.

I am MARRIED.

The sooner we have a a database of ethically enhanced employee profiling then the sooner we can actually do business as it is being done in the millenium we live in.

ps.  I urge you to consider sending me an email that self-nominates you for a Presenter role at MobilizeThis2008 - http://mobilizethis.wikispaces.com

Your theme - send me it via email.
Your timing - somewhere between 22 - 24 th October
Online - straight from your desktop
Networked - check out the other presenters
Free - as in freedom

Perhaps your theme could be ‘Using Social NETWORKING Tools for Educational Purpose’

CC News

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CC News - A blog site well worth the regular visit…in fact I’ve added to my blogroll and it’s 1.58 AM in the morning.

Time to sleep.

Brave Or Desperate

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Personal Informatics

Another take on personal informatics with more of a robotic perspective.

Microblogging Futures

A really profound slideshow or in their own words - ’social object’.

I like the analogy ; less social networks and more social objects.

Flip Camera

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[ image : Flip Camera ]

Could have some interesting possibilities for under resourced educators and tradies in the field

Training

Efficiency As Fetish

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In the privacy of my own private contemplation this week I’ve successfully avoided employing with others the more avid forms of cognitive audiosonic dissonance which would otherwise surface my silent utterances.

Forms collided in my collective as clear as clockwork.

Coffee.
Retorts and enrapture from work colleagues.
Patience.
Silence.

Factors which added together all produce some effervescent synapsial moments like an orchestra of syllables coming to rest in a tin of grammatical chocolates. Memories colliding in a whirling dervish punctuated with the odd moment of awful………. silence.

It’s the silent times that make it all the more absurd. Points where pictures form of politicians propounding brevity and bravery whilst the ‘nodders’ bob and weave in the background rows.

Ever noticed that ? Wherever politicians plunder they have nodders and hanger-on-ers’ keenly massaging the crowds egocentric aptitudes and auditory desires.

A moment in this time of avid observence this week surfaced as edu-punk…a notion that even for the most vested creative educator, the sameness of system best suits…..debunked effectievely one hopes.

We have ties to match for those with permissions to do so.

The anthropocentrism of it all makes for frightening fare. The petulance and the flatulent flattery seems to be getting everybody nowhere at once.

We so aptly wrap our workplace efficiencies and our heart felt wanderings in a wanderlust that better resembles haiku having a hernia.

Why must every day equal a dollar and every week be month divided by four.

Are we free ? Is this freedom ?

Or is this within constraint…..

Wacky Gifs

One from Burning Pixel;

Thinkgeek | Tightness

[image : javier Aroche]

It’s difficult to comprehend how deep the act of logging in resonates for those whose voice is otherwise unheard.

Changing systems means changing the gears on something racing into tightness.

Edupunk : Oi Oi Oi !

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[ image : me in 2007 ]

It would seem our most illustrious educationalists are now engaged in a race to rhetoric to rid themselves of the web 2.0 moniker they so lovingly have coveted for so long ….for so little some would retort.

D’Arcy Norman threatens self immolation in a land of machines and Leigh Blackall quotes 1975 as being one of the best years in his short life, both it would seem  in their reference and abhorence to straight-edge geek-boys desiring dirt amongst tech-smarm and power hungry industrialised neck-bearded hegemonists.

Yet, on reflection, a trillion social bookmarks and three hundred billion lost passwords and associated personal information fields later, we now have a better picture of what we could perhaps should now be working away from…but how ?

Well, perhaps we could all get web 2.0 and 21st century ( finger down throat ) about it and address it as all good fcuking edu-mcationalists should in a list of ten ‘edupunk’ behaviours ( or considerations of reality ) that you think define our move away from reframing and bundling emerging technologies into cookie-cutter products with pre-defined application….

Here’s my ten;

1. Resolving The Identity Crisis - I now know who I dont know because of the technologies I find myself using day to day….what was my name again and who do you want me to be ?
2. Avoiding Robotic Gesticulations - The machine is in me
3. Head Banging For A Living - I’d shave my head and bang it only its all fallen out
4. Google Maps My Arse - I’m already covered in tattoos and they still gave me a job as a pre-school teacher
5. Beazley For President - Johnny Rotten was the last Australian Prime Minister right ?
6. Networking Mayhem - My RSS reader looks like Sid & Nancy on crack
7. Avoiding Detention - I’d happily trash a classroom if I had one
8. Business Before Pleasure - Fuck capability building…lets all get pissed and feed our learners to the factory furnace
9. Convicts - We all know that with a pardon we can get to the top and mohawks are a type of Columbian bird right ?
10. Green What ? - You seriously want me to work with this haircut ?

Ah well.

Even when I grew my hair back the attitude still remained…..so I’m told. Better we get all ‘edu’ punk as long as we refrain from waving flags and chanting stupid arse slogans invented for long dead white supremist lunatics.

Oi !

Becoming A Web Daddy

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Music Lessons

[ image : old computer ]

Gender Bender

The Days Of The Commodore

Funky Soundtracks

Gentle Giants

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[ image : mosieur J ]

Lucy Chili and I have again been exploring what makes and constitutes change whilst acknowledging fear, favour, patterns, binary thinking and other such debilitating conditions of humanity.

Faced with a seemingly undending array of topics to explore which underpin the anxieties of living life as e-learning educators or in Lucy’s sake not education ( although I’d argue it’s concept not a title) we’ve unearthed an interesting piece of prose via the Gmail semantics ad. campaign in the top toolbar.

On Social Practices.

Reflections On Life As Consultant

It’s been a very interesting fortnight.

At times I’ve really felt like meat in a sandwich, squashed between things threatening to be consumed. As a project consultant to a number of Australian Flexible Learning Elearning Innovations projects after this Friday and in between negotiations for a number of other private and enterprie RTO projects spread from Caringbah to Coonamble I’ve learnt that life as consultant can be both exciting and rewarding.

Travel is having it’s toll. My persistent cough is back as is my sore back from travelling in my utility for hours on end. My throat is sore from talking. ….and yet there’s a certain joy about having time with my son to play with him and watch the snow fall and still not enough time to get into the studio and create some art work.

That part is a discipline related issue and one I’m gradually getting my head around.

I’ve also learned that as a consultant you can expect;

• the unexpected
• to need a home office….it’s almost impossible to operate as an e-learning consultant without a reliable table, internet connection and some decent strong coffee
• your an outsider to insider negotiations
• not to be paid for at least two-three hours of emails per day
• the bigger the organisation the bigger the expectation to be patient especially with payments for service….it’s a short term contract….little regularity….lots of paperwork
• many phone calls or none at all dependent on who’s where and how close you are to the source of project management
• odd working hours
• constant anxiety
• strange requests from people expecting everything for nothing
• time to yourself which is generally consumed with thinking about prospects
• more time management skill development than ever before
• hefty PI and PL cover upwards of $1400 AUD per annum.
• a massive fuel bill
• increased interest from the tax office
• decreased interest from the bank

Overall it’s a very challenging time and now that I’m confident I can last out till spring I might get a chance to interview for some full-time work which I can get paid to forget the above….for a while…..till that becomes debilitating and humiliating and so on.

More meat in the sandwich me thinks. Plenty of time to reflect and create and build things which matter most.

Open wide spaces.