Firewalls of the Mind

Firewalls of the Mind, originally uploaded by bee1. In Lesley’s Graham’s Peregrinations, I found the tip to Letter James, which allows you to insert a personalized text on a given picture motif. I first heard the expression firewalls of the mind used by Vance Stevens . As I looked at the Berlin Wall photo, I … Read more

The Mug Shots Project

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Rebels

Bird in Bariloche, which Ale Weser posted to her blog and Aaron’s subsequent comment on it, took me to a poem I wrote about 4 years ago… funny how connections are made. Many would like to be that bird perched on top of the tall eucalyptus tree ready to stay or fly away free to … Read more

OSN 2005: Exploring on-line tools for collaboration

The Online Social Networks 2005 Conference has just started. Over 300 people around the world have signed up and I have just logged in as a special guest πŸ˜‰ Howard Rheingold ( SmartMobs) , Lisa Kimball (Group Jazz, Joi Ito (ICANN) and Brian Reich (Mindshare Interactive Campaigns) are the keynoters. They organized this online conference … Read more

The Internet is About People

Amy Gahran in Contentious blog says…”contrary to popular opinion, the internet is not really about technology. It’s about people, specifically how people communicate. Despite the best efforts of evolution and civilization, human beings still have a lot of rough edges – individually and collectively.” Aaron Campbell in Under the Influence of Epoche points out:” blogging … Read more

We will rock you!

I am back from an amazing virtual tour to Monkey Mia on Michael Coghlan’s blog thanks to the embedded Media Windows Video he created using Photo Story with photographs from his own trip a week before. On February 11th at 22.30 GMT, Michael will be showing Evonline2005 webloggers some of the cutting edge tools you … Read more