Feb

19

Emerge team writing retreat

February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I have set up a place to post our stuff from the writing retreat (I know, I know, another b***** site). Bear with me
We do not have a projector but most of us have machines, I thought this might work as a whiteboard. I have not made the site private – yet. But we can.
http://emerge.posterous.com
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Feb

13

how about a MOOC on rebuilding wealth in the commons @Downes

February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I share Stephen Downes’ view (repeated here: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=47753 ) about efforts afoot to convert public wealth into private (and increasingly stateless) wealth. Actually the agency is too passive in that phrase – there are people working hard at it. PayPal is an example of an explicit attempt to engineer this. “One solution: move control of [...]

Feb

11

Installing parallels v4 on top of v3 seems to have gone smoothly: virtual machine intact & Nvivo running :)

February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Installing Parallels 4 seems to have been entirely unproblematic. It detected my Parallels 3 environment, backed it up, removed v3 and installed v4. I have about 4 back-ups lying around now, but it appears to have behaved very well. Time consuming given the number of times 12GB got copied. Nvivo is up and running maybe [...]

Feb

9

Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was mildly annoyed (a usual state for me) a year or three ago when Ericsson bundled Blogger in the firmware of their good camera phones. I didn’t want to set up a Blogger ID, all I wanted to do was post to Flickr. For a while I tried to use Shozu (http://www.shozu.com/portal/index.do), but its [...]

Feb

8

The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?

February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Contemporary poetry often runs the risk of being all together too much of the academy and not enough of the world. The poet needs to be a wilfully unmediating existential context for poetry drawn from a globally localised collective unconscious. Either the force exerted by poems must be immediate, direct and great or, like the [...]

Feb

7

Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

But the tags do not propagate to this WP bog. I have added them, later. It is interesting using email as a blogging environment. I have been using Ecto for several years to post to LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad blogs or using web interfaces for Elgg (or feeds in). One good thing about Ecto is [...]

Feb

7

Posterous allows you to manage posts to multiple channels via email

February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I like Posterous (http://posterous.com/). It is extremely easy to set up an account and it does useful things via email. I have posted this to my Brookes Blog and my Posterous blog from my email client. It is also possible to update Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs. See http://posterous.com/autopost. I am still exploring the service, [...]