Category: 01h. Miscellaneous

To continue the documentation of my quick fading memories containing my limited understanding …
2. Rebecca Blood’s Keynote
Did not manage to catch the title of her keynote if there is one. She placed in perspective our current day blogger as a publisher, who seeks to establish conversation with his/her reader. She sees our shift from “the age of specialist” towards “the age of amateur”. We are also shifting from the mode of “collaborative media” towards a world of “participatory media”. Bloggers are filtering and producing news with their own perspectives, and some of these can first be based on news by media and professional reporters.
Quoting the evolvement of wikipedia as an example, she further touched on her belief that everyone is interested in something, and given time, everyone can be good in something.
very forward looking keynote and place her belief on the world’s future development, if only i can catch more of the thoughts in words:| some other reflections by Michael Specht goes here.
3. Mark Bernstein on “Protecting the Blogosphere“
A very inspiring presentation with a very global view of things, specifically the blogosphere. Blogs have different popularity and many of these exist in “the long tail”. Those in this ‘tail’ are least often referenced but their existence are just as important. Helping to keep them alive (by reading and linking) keeps the whole blogosphere alive.
I was unable to capture the full (high speed) train of thoughts but if you would like to ‘visit’ the presentation, listen to this podcast by Mark Bernstein himself. Also, check out this note on the presentation by Michael S.
4. Adrian Miles on ‘Media Rich versus Rich Media‘
This paper shares insight on the video prototypes that Adrian Miles is working on. By making videos granular, some affordances of blog (text-based) postings can be transferred into videos! This include clickable hyperlinks in the video itself, which is shown in his 1st prototype; The 2nd prototype allows 2 separate video streams to run side-by-side, with separate controls, allowing one video to ‘quote’ something in the other video; The 3rd prototype demonstrates the possiblity of placing commentaries after a clip hyperlinked from elsewhere has been played. In other words, video streams from different sources can be combined into one ‘screen’.
(to be continued …)

Back yesterday morning from Sydney, was hit most significantly and almost immediately by our most _wonderful_ weather here (29-34C, >90% humidity) *hmm*
It was a short, yet enriching trip. Heard many wonderful presentations and thought it would be most appropriate to capture my limited understanding here while memories are still fresh 🙂
There are two main streams of blogging in effect:
(1) Social blogging (with emphasis on political blogging)
(2) Edublogging (with more papers from higher education settings)
I’ll start by looking through the keynotes and invited speakers.
1. Thomas N. Burg on “technologyLog – innovating knowledge sharing”

The work on innovation “technologyLog” is introduced. It is a platform in development that has many features. And the whole thought behind this whole development is the need for innovation in order for a corporation to move forward. With social interaction and democratising innovation as the requirements for innovation, perhaps that’s why a major part of the engine is blog or blog-related.
Slide 6 is interesting, as it captures the adoption cycle of any form of innovation (not restricted to the use of blogging). Particularly the chasm, if we look at ourselves as early adopters/visionaries, we’ll need to bridge the gap(s) before the early major pragmatists will come on-board. This reminds us that when we introduce portfolio using blogs, we are in fact faced with TWO CHASMS and not just one to address.
Some other interesting discussion on this presentation can be found here.
(to be continued …)

The NIBC 2005 launch was on last friday. Couldnt be there and heard from Guat Kheng that everything went smoothly. Looks like the news for this competition is catching up everywhere, locally and abroad. Check out some of them:
TODAYonline reports
SG Gov Official Press Release
Weblogg-ed
Couros Blog
Witness the competition here from 1st Jun onwards.
It’ll be interesting to see how some of (edu)bloggers from abroad react to the existence of the competition 🙂

This is the 2nd day of the BlogTalk Downunder, in the midst of a presentation in fact 😛
Great exchange of ideas had went on between the presenters and the participants. Yesterday’s presentations were more on social/political blogging and today we see more edublogging lined up. Will follow up with findings later, back to listen to the presentation.
Visit the conference blog first for the postings streaming.

Yes! The details has been confirmed! It is just next Friday, 20/5, and the registration booth will be opened from 1330hr onwards. The venue is exciting, the big SG “durian”, yup, you have guessed it, and the exact location is Level 2 Recital Studio.
For schools that have signed up, the registration is open, checked it out here.
It’s going to be exciting, not sure if this is the world’s first blogging competition involving schools. With 50 over schools participating times the number of students in each school. Though not every student will be blogging, but the sheer number of postings should be quite high.
Looking forward to the day when the blogging begins … *Ooo*