As it turns out, the theme I recently upgraded to offers a template for full page layouts and I’ve decided to use that for the video section. This page now features an 800 x 550 pixel video player for a nice large look at my Blip.TV collection of screencasts and other video clips. So if you find these videos useful be sure to have a look.
To navigate through the collection use the left and right arrow buttons available in the lower left-hand corner of the player.
Remember too that …

In a time of information abundance, when drastically reduced barriers to contribute and share content equate to a myriad of sources of information it can be incredibly difficult to stay on top of subsequent conversations. RSS and content syndication offer tremendous opportunities to facilitate this process, with many blogs now offering feeds for both original posts and subsequent comments. This means users can have content and comments delivered to them instead of having to visit each site one-by-one.
Yet taking advantage of these comment feeds requires you …

Some of my colleagues and I are looking into the prospect of using SecondLife to create a short machinema style video for use on campus and are hoping to use some of the voice gesture options. Having just looked into how you activate them I wanted to take a moment to share my findings.
I’m hardly an expert in the ways of SecondLife however, so there may be aspects of this I’ve overlooked – or perhaps more effective ways of conveying realistic body language. If you can shed some …

FOREWORD
Late last week, through a wild series of connections I learned through Jim Groom at University Mary Washington in Virginia that there is an instance of WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) being run locally out of EMPA at UNSW, called New South Blogs. After initially wallowing in a sense of unimportance about not being aware of this fact beforehand I’ve begun to realise the significance of all this.
It is my hope that the seeds of our preliminary discussions represent an opportunity to nurture and grow a participatory culture that spans faculties …

In my line of work I need to have a solid grasp of all commonly-used applications, their idiosyncrasies and their affordances.  This includes software I really don’t care to use from time to time (can you say “LMS”).  So with Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of IE8 having just been released I’ve opted to install the browser and then take it for a brief – and I mean BRIEF – spin around the block.
In the interests of sharing the experience, here are a slew of screenshots I took depicting the installation …