KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Nathan entranced by his circus toy
Originally uploaded by kerryank

For 7 days Paul and I had a mission - to play with the technologies that most intrigued and entertained us, to give ourselves up to all that was geek, to exhale and to enjoy.
My geek week was largely spent in Second Life, learning some bits about [...]

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Being the Second Life officianado I am, I was looking forward to trying out Google Lively - http://www.lively.com.  Everyone seems to be looking for the “SL killer” — so I wondered, was this it?
I was able to create an account fairly easily and within minutes was styling my new avatar. Hairstyle, haircolour, and a few [...]

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Geeking Out!
Originally uploaded by kerryank

Just a quick (or should I say qik) post before bed time.
Tonight I tried using my Nokia 95 trained on a computer monitor to live stream video from Second Life to the internet using qik.com
By setting up qik on my phone for streaming rather than quality, I didn’t get backed up [...]

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Moms keep you honest. My mother and I cover a lot of ground in our weekly chats and this week we were talking about Internet Neutrality, how internet newbies can find sites to trust and RSS feeds.
As far as Net Neutrality goes, I was able to tell her I’d researched it and pointed her at [...]

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Sharing an event with people who cannot attend and making that experience as rich as possible can often involve risk. I took a few risks yesterday and ventured into uncharted waters in trying to bring the Digital Education Revolution Symposium’s Adelaide leg to a remote audience and have since slapped my forehead over things I [...]

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