KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

After an exhaustive search to find an answer, I sent the Flickr team (to whom I pay $US24.95 per year) my very first help email. Got an auto response that included this:
“Just a quick email from Team Flickr to let you know that we’ve successfully received your recent Help by Email query and [...]

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In a Bush-like move to stifle opposition, the newly installed Labour government has tried to position anyone who is FOR freedom of speech and against their filtering policies as porn-loving child molestors.
This from the Telecommunications Minister, Stephen Conroy:

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fkerryj.com%2F2008%2F01%2F04%2Fdisagree-and-youre-an-anti-australian-pervert%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Disagree+and+you+are+an+anti-Australian+pervert’;
addthis_pub [...]

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Yahoo! is making headlines for helping to strangle free speech in China. Again. It boils down to trading the life of a human being in exchange for access to more than 160 million potential advertisers and pairs of eyeballs.
Spokesperson Mary Osako was quoted by the BBC in 2005 as saying,
“Just like any other global [...]

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“Because the web needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”
Relevance in search results as in life is based on a series of choices and the ability to filter out what is annyoing, irrelevant and just plain useless.
So two programmers in the US are working on developing open source filtering software that is able to detect rampant [...]

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The executive summary to Marie Jasinski’s research for the Flexible Learning Framework on the environment necessary to embed e-learning into mainstream practice made for an excellent read this morning and a great start to my week.
The key messages for me were:
1) Early adopters or innovators are not necessarily the best leaders when it comes to [...]

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