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As promised, here’s a video of the talk I gave yesterday at PRSA Buffalo/Niagara to kick off their Sunrise Seminar series. Since it’s hard to see the slides in the video, view or download them from Slideshare.net while watching me take fifty communication professionals on a thinking journey through the strategic uses of social media.You ...
A rare glimpse from a Sichuan wedding haunted by the three minute earthquake (via Kottke.org)In recent weeks, there seemed to be an incredible number of reports of natural disasters happening around the world. While most of us might attribute this to the brunt of climate change finally dawning upon us, this is also likely the ...
The kind folks (Marcus & Ridza) at Start-up @ Singapore wanted to have me (in Buffalo, NY) as a virtual panelist for their Web 2.0 session held at the National University of Singapore. I was game, and while we did several trials over the week, on the day itself I had such a hard time ...
In this 20min Qik video, you’ll get to meet my ethical hacker buddy, Shady, as well as get a little tour of Buffalo while we drive downtown for the last awesome performance of Avenue Q. Along the way we talk about mobile video broadcasting from the Nokia, possibilities of such a thing for the iPhone, ...
Last Saturday morning, I was invited by Wayne Soh of The Digital Movement to speak about game mechanics at their new conference series, TertiaryTech.As you can tell, this conference was geared at students interested in breaking into the web startup industry. I must say that from what I saw, I was very impressed. The ideas ...
Here are my thoughts on the government’s New Media engagement and the qualities of the disaffected Singaporean netizen. This discussion refers to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent National Day Rally Speech, with particular emphasis on the newly formed “Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society” (AIMS) and their consultation paper on ...
Since discovering LiveNewsCameras.com earlier in February, I’ve had the team in mind as a great example of how lifecasting could be used by professional media agencies.While the journalists of Fox News Chicago certainly don’t wear cameras to broadcast their lives, a stationary camera showing them at work and reporting on what they see across their ...
This 20min video showcases a slice of multi-way conversations around the topic of identity online, specifically within the new video space of Seesmic.com. I’ve used Viddler for this post since I could tag and link our appearances from within the player to actual Seesmic videos. Just rollover the dots along the video timeline.Dean Terry started ...
Game mechanics is quite the rage across disciplines and industries. Since 2009, I’ve delivered variations of my talk at SOLsummit 2009 (Syracuse, NY), Barcamp Buffalo, ICA 2010 conference, WebSG meetup, IGDA Pecha Kucha Night III, and soon, SingTel Accelerate conference. This Saturday at TertiaryTech I’ll be helping interested students understand the basic …
On left, a suit t-shirt so ridiculously ace, it’d school the slickest of platypuses. On right, a fiendish t-shirt so tall, dark and dangerous, it’d make the chastest of non-nubere nuns quiver. Over to you ladies and gents…
Everybody knows Skype. Everybody loves Skype. But has Starhub gained itself a huge advantage with Pfingo here in Singapore? Daniel and Jerrick discuss the unique features of Starhub’s VoIP …
Watch on Youtube or download the iPhone version (7:43min / 55mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.In this 50th episode of theorycast, I caught up with Jesper Juul, a video game theorist at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. He just spoke at the University at Buffalo as part of the Visual ...
I found this new library addition, aptly titled “Access Denied“, from the UB Library homepage. Figuring that it’d be useful for my dissertation, I got the dewey decimal location, went to bookshelf on 3rd floor, but I couldn’t find it. Went back to office, got on my Mac, messaged ublibrarian10 on AIM, gave all the ...
With all the high production videocasts I’m seeing on the web, it sure is refreshing to see something so heartfelt and authentic. My buddy Michael Cho, an accomplished street singer and thinker behind Comiqs.com, recently emailed me about his 11 year old brother-in-law, “NickyRicky“. You see, NickyRicky recently wrote his first song entitled “I saw ...
I finally received my copy of Neil Postman’s “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” (1969) in awesome condition (thx RoundTowerBooks!) when I noticed the beautiful stamping on the cover… Look carefullypretty clever huh?Howard Rheingold recommended this ancient text over a twitter conversation, where he also linked to a downloadable PDF version (820kb). I …
Click here to enlarge for better readability (5mb JPEG)Thanks to Australian educator, John Larkin, for presenting me some evidence on our present tragic state of the world, as a prediction from science fiction of the past. I’ve scribbled his talking points on the left corner of the scanned pages above, which you can enlarge for ...
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Me just before my haircut. And yes, the title of this post is a play on a popular Bonny Hicks’ book. Disclaimer: What you’re about to read is a break from my typical style of blogging. This is a tame version of how popular Singaporean blogger, Xiaxue, would write… with loads of photos… lots of triple periods… and improper grammar. Most …
Participatory governance in Singapore is finally reaching a new milestone, thanks to a newly released report from the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS). Pooling together the expertise of bloggers in the civil and academic sectors, this open report is intended for the core government body to review and implement ...
Share and annotate your videos with Omnisio!Here’s my test of Omnisio using a popular presentation of mine…Keeping tabs on the online video sharing scene, I came across a new video sharing service called Omnisio. Dabbling with it for a while, I soon found reason to be pretty darn exciting…Essentially, Omnisio does two things:1) Share compilations ...
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