KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

There’s a whole grab bag of things I learned/heard that resonated with me/observed/gave me food for a hungry brain at camp over the weekend. Here they are in no particular order:

Podcasting is like early television - mimicking an earlier form of communication. As a medium, it hasn’t yet found its unique range of expression.
Niche programming, [...]

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Nick Hodge is just wrapping up - a refreshingly honest, positive man who is a “professional geek”. Blogging dos and don’ts.

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New ways of using mobile phones - for entertainment, business, social networking, various forms of communications, — cities with long commutes, different uses.
Disadvantages: Screen Size, input methods, different OSs and browsers, Javascript and RIA, data cost and speed, context.
Advantags: always there, immediate, personal.
Apps on phones: RSS, podcasts, blogs, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, [...]

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Bret talked about how a teacher used SL with Middle School students regarding what beauty is. Day 1, they created avatars that looked as much like themselves as possible. Day two, they were told to make their avatars as beautiful as possible - the guys all had big pecs, the girls hourglass figures [...]

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The morning started with Cameron Reilly of The Podcamp Network disputing a claim that podcasting is dead. He surprised me with the level of passion he had for podcasting in general - he sees it as having the potential to change the world! He made the excellent point that it is still in [...]

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