Gen-Con Day 1 – Day 2, LARP short report

Short version. Zombie Apocalypse LARP: Started human, ended human, participated in six of the game’s major explosions. Good times.

Steampunk LARP: Started the game as a Gentleman Boxer nicknamed “The Doctor” (for a boxer, I had disturbingly high medical knowledge), and the bodyguard/meat shield for The Patron. Over the course of the game, I was [...]

East Coast Roadshow: Bandwidth a’ burning (Social Media Ritual Bonfire)

Back in the day, Alex Social Butterfly Rampy posted a social media ritual.  As part of the East Coast Roadshow tour, I’ve stayed connected to the internet through my (flaky) 3 Prepaid Modem 12 gig package, which I’m cheerfully burning through at great pace.  So I thought I’d map what I do with my bandwidth

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An internet tradition: Telling the internet that something is on fire

It’s okay, I’ve sent an e-mail to the fire brigade.

($) Dr Stephen Dann says: just burnt a potato in the microwave ($) Dr Stephen Dann says: trying not to trigger the fire alarm and dispose of the potato’s corspe ($) Dr Stephen Dann says: door wide open, aircondition on cold, Jen says: oh dear [...]

I for one welcome our new early majority overlords

A few weeks ago, I was speaking at BarCamp Canberra. I mentioned that the early adopter/innovator phase of the internet was on the way out, and the next way of early majority was inbound.

Ashton Kutcher might just be the pinnacle point of the early adopters who usher in the massive wave (34% of a [...]

BarCampCanberra2: The Quickening

Image by Dr Stephen Dann via Flickr

A glorious day of technology, people, ideas and political thoughts .

BarCampCanberra (#bcc2) also combined my love of liveblog journalism with the twitterstream plus streaming photos to Flickr (barcampcanberra2).  I was a quasi-sponsor this year, having set aside a budget to cover misc.cost.other and rolled out some [...]