KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

I found a great little script you can see in action at the bottom of my page templates that makes it easy for visitors to add a blog post to their favourite social bookmarking site.
I found it at GrayWolf’s SEO Blog -  and it did the job with minimal massaging. I did notice that [...]

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Conferences, seminars and other events can be inspirational and almost rejuvenating at the time.  But a few days back in the “real” world can often cause the buzz to dissipate in the drone of mundane responsibilities.
While checking on the resources for the education.au seminar series via the tag eduausem2007, I came across an unrelated post by [...]

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Today education.au launched their first seminar series with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. I have to say I was blown away by the quiet sincerity, passion and sweetness of the man who spoke and patiently answered our questions today. I also learned that my concept of what an encylcopedia was — was wrong.

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The importance of archiving seeming trivia like advertisements and entertainment materials and the perspective it can give you on how people were inculturated and why they hold the beliefs they do was driven home for me today as I researched the disease emphysema, which I just found out my dad has inflicted upon himself after [...]

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The power of immersive experiences in 3-D Virtual Worlds and games has gotten a lot of press lately and the study of games as learning has also had a spotlight thrown on it.  
For me, more gruesome headlines like the mass killings at Virgina Tech have raised an older issue related to games: do they teach and/or fan [...]

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