With time at a premium these days I’m finding it more and more difficult to carve out opportunities for slow blogging, and yet research opportunities and significant works continue to emerge seemingly daily. So I’m attempting to find ways to stay on top of my never ending stream of thoughts and ideas. Today is particularly frantic, so I’m opting for a video blog post in the first instance with the intent of returning to the subject in a more considered way once time permits.
I’m in the midst of …

This is a 10-minute post.
Over the last several years I’ve delved deeper and deeper in to the nature of online interaction; how we engage with one another; how we develop, nurture and sustain relationships, and the implications this has on our realities as people and as human beings. I’ve explored as many different tools as I can get my hands on and immersed myself in as many modes, mediums and environments as I can possibly experience – all the while doing as much as I can to try …

With the arrival of a new year I’ve decided the time was appropriate to make some aesthetic and functional changes to this blog. My tinkerings in this area are ongoing as we speak, but most of the main changes have already taken place.
With this in mind I’ve prepared a screencast overview (embedded above) of several changes I made last night, including a theme change, email subscriptions, changes to commenting, status of Seesmic video commenting, and a roll-out of Google Friend Connect.
Google Friend Connect in particularly is an aspect …

There are times I realise how far out I’m becoming in my ongoing exploration of new media, and am brought back to the reality that not everyone is in the same space; not everyone see’s new media in the same light, or indeed understands or sees any value in it whatsoever.
A comment by Cindy Seibel on my last post made me realise that I’ve begun to forget the learning curve faced by new users of new media, and how important it is to keep the perspectives of developing …

In the last 12 hours I’ve met and held discussions with colleagues in Mexico and the Netherlands. In both cases the mood was quite relaxed and friendly. There were no particular aims or objectives; nor tasks or responsibilities to be “owned.” In the same way you’d have chats at the coffee cart or the water cooler, these discussions were both social and professional at the same time.
The fascinating thing about this is that I haven’t experienced the same combined levels of engagement, lighthearted social interaction and professional …