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Drummer, Audio engineer and its teacher, Post production in TV, House Renovator, Journo, Advertising sales, Finance Broker, Geek.
A fascination with all things media and its change from Broadcast to Interactive. A fascination with all things communications and its change from PSTN to IP.
Too busy learning to get a decent teaching
What I've been doing
24 Oct 2009
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07 Sep 2009
could we have a quiet talk here, cause i'd ike to invite nick and a few others to it.
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=28556&parent=118695
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You have to excuse my lack of tech knowledge. I'm was talking to nick cross @ aarnet (http://www.aarnet.edu.au/upcoming-events/ozeconferences.aspx ) about how, eventually, we will need to make rtc stuff accessible to edna (and a few others like mitie) communities, http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/collaboration-services
especially now eduau are talking about, in t scitas report, "Extend(ing) the Australian Access Federation (AAF) into a national cross-sectoral service for Trust, Identity [..]
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06 Sep 2009
You probably know about this one, but just in case. Wonderful watching a new culture make its way out of the silos.
http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/07/24/public-sphere-3-australian-ict-creative-industries-development/
seems like we've got a few media advisors for pollies who are starting to work together on introducing "the immersion effect".
pia is the leading creative. She might read reports, and sometimes delivers them to Ministers, but she would never believe they can change an old (edu /[..]
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02 Sep 2009
Hey Nick, Yu remember your comment on my page on
27 Jul 2009? I do agree with yu "that apps are the only reason why the networks are valuable".
Primarily because they make a network's functionality easy to use (or at least they should). It's just we have this great network called aarnet, where the 'fat boys' come up with this kind of stuff. http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/collaboration-services
and don't use it to talk, http://www.arcs.org.au/forums (or much else from my discussions w[..]
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24 Aug 2009
Following the strategic planning process
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10 or more proposals are being made a day for the new strategic planning process. But its OK, because we have feeds!
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Great, That's much better. Now it only takes me 19 secs to be overwhelmed rather than a few minutes. I'd be more interested in one of your essays. C'mon 500 words. "Wikipedia, five years on"
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18 Sep 2009
Mark Tranthim-Fryer wrote
Thanks Simon for alerting me to (now fixed) broken Digital Inclusion link
We are following the work of the national Social Inclusion Board, and will make approach after indications of commitment from State and Territory partners (which isn't fast as I'm sure you appreciate!)
cheers
2 Sep 2009
Nick Lothian wrote
I don't really understand your point. AARNET etc are useful because anyone can build applications which use them, and, as usual, the people who build the best applications for them are not the people that run them.
I don't understand what 'extends the edna interface to the network functions in a "simple to use" manner' means at all. AARNET (or more broadly the internet) is just an IP network - what network functions would be useful for edna?
If you are referring to video conferencing then I'd strongly argue that isn't a network function, but an application on top of the network. There are numerous suppliers of IP-based video conferencing solutions.
27 Jul 2009
Nick Lothian wrote
Thanks for your pointer to that conference. I'm not quite sure what attention you think we should pay to "the bottom layers of the IP stack". I don't speak for Education.au etc here, but I've never really detected any enthusiasm or expertise towards developing network hardware or anything like that.
I tend to believe that the apps - far from being "just the surface to a bunch of networks" - are the only reason why the networks are valuable (talking here about IP networks, not networks of people).
"Is there any consideration given, in education.au, to real time communications?" - yes, some. However, personally I think that in a geographically diverse country like Australia asynchronous communication is an asset (particularly when looking at time zone differences with other countries)
17 May 2009
Brianna Laugher wrote
Hi Simon,
Thanks so much for the tips. Do you have any particular contacts in Monash that might be a good starting point for me to talk to?
cheers
Brianna
4 May 2009
12 Sep 2008
Nick Lothian wrote
Hi Simon, The Taxonomy-Directed-Folksonomy paper is available from http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/157-Hayman_Lothian-en.pdf
26 Aug 2008
Alison Hall wrote
Hello Simon, I have looked into this and this is something that needs to be updated from our end. We are hoping to have current group membership details displaying soon - Thanks
16 May 2008
Nick Lothian wrote
Hi Simon - there seems to be a problem with the feeds you are using - you are broadcasting the complete feed from Wikieducator and the Moodle Social Lounge as your own actions. Have a look on http://me.edu.au/p/Simonfj to see what I mean.
29 Apr 2008
Tom Worthington wrote
simon fenton - jones wrote:
"Sorry Tom, I thought you like to keep the threads together. I have to. Normally I'd expect to see my comment pop up with your reply on your blog ..."
As you were making insulting remarks about a third party in you comment, I did not think it appropriate to have it display on my Blog.
28 Apr 2008
Tom Worthington wrote
"simonfj" left a comment on my post "Ideas 2020 Summit Streaming" <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/04/ideas-2020-summit-streaming.html>, but did not provide any contact details.
Brianna Laugher
