My Lifestream
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December 13th
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December 11th
I feel like the student who did not pay enough attention in class to instructions and my summary for Week 11 got lost in the ...
Published LifeStream Summary Weeks 11 & 12.
Posted What Matters, essays about topics of global importance, curated by McKinsey & Company.
Posted What Matters, essays about topics of global importance, curated by McKinsey & Company.
Posted What Matters, essays about topics of global importance, curated by McKinsey & Company.
Posted What Matters, essays about topics of global importance, curated by McKinsey & Company.
Posted Full: The veil: a declaration of independence - The National.
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December 9th
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December 8th
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December 7th
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December 6th
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December 5th
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December 4th
I put aside the course reading for a couple of days in the hope that wisdom would filter down as if a hyper-presence and, tou...
Published Approaching the Final Assignment.
Posted Comments on: Posthuman Pedagogy.
Posted liquidbooks / Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Reader.
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December 2nd
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November 29th
Posted Comments on:.
I have struggled a bit with this one, so I have decided to show something that I originally thought was “posthuman” when ...
Published Posthuman Pedagogy.
Looking for a time machine: astrolabes in Medieval Jewish society This intrigued me as further evidence of Edwards’ ‘gath...
Published 8 Posthuman #3.
A sentence from Edwards leapt out at me and I wanted to see if I could explore an inarticulate idea I’ve long held but coul...
Published 7 Crossing the threshold: posthuman #2.
#ededc major issues logging in to edc11 site. Probably local issue but anyone know if any problem @ Edin end? [abuneil]
Shared Shorts: Death Mask.
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November 28th
This week has really been about trying to come to terms with the concepts of PostHuman and, to a lesser extent, Cyborg. The...
Published LifeStream Summar Week 10.
Posted Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Civilisation’ by Niall Ferguson · LRB 3 November 2011.
@tukinc #ededc was given one but grew to despise it - somehow more guilt inducing than fun! Why feel guilty over string of code? Yet I did! [abuneil]
@tukinc #ededc either augmenting existing parts or making new parts to work independent of our bodies yet connected http://t.co/ONlVFOKV [abuneil]
@gfe8 #ededc Loved Planet of the Apes! Enjoyed recent prequel even more. Much more comforting somehow than my fear of Zombies! [abuneil]
Posted BBC News - Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison.
Posted gulfnews : Easy internet access behind rise in cybercrime, experts say.
Posted BBC NEWS | Americas | Pentagon plans cyber-insect army.
Posted BBC News - Cyborg search-and-rescue insects' power source unveiled.
Posted What Matters, essays about topics of global importance, curated by McKinsey & Company.
Shared Hamster Paradise.
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November 25th
Posted Photo.
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November 24th
Shared Making connections.
Shared Arafat, Muzdalifah and Mina.
Shared Looking for a time machine: astrolabes in medieval Jewish society.
3.74 degrees of online separation - http://t.co/w8LRUwCq interesting in relation to "art of the private" & teaching [abuneil]
Our 4G future - bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… now seamless connection seems reality = posthuman in reach #ededc [abuneil]
Our 4G future - http://t.co/83deFHee now seamless connection seems reality = posthuman in reach [abuneil]
Firms 'not ready for IT failure' - http://t.co/cjJhQgXQ #ededc collective memory loss if cyborg? Digiculture as prone [abuneil]
#ededc prez on culture composed almost entirely of anecdotes. So is culture aggregation of stories? How does cyborg tell Its story? [abuneil]
#ededc at conference listening to presenter list "how to pass exam" points. Sudden desire to be a cyborg. [abuneil]
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November 23rd
#ededc http://t.co/2fL6tdG6 this really does mean something cyborg to me after the esoteric readings. Easy to see pedagogic applications. [abuneil]
Posted BBC News - Carbon nanotube 'space camouflage' coating invented.
Posted BBC News - Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes'.
#edec If this nano tech could be applied to humans, would add Harry Potter dimension to cyborgs; invisibility cloaking. http://t.co/0jNXoGfD [abuneil]
Posted BBC News - Living Online.
Posted Emirates online shoppers most prolific in the region - The National.
#ededc perhaps a bit of a tangent but economic situation means "digiworkers" losing their allure as marital mates! http://t.co/NvWKpg3r [abuneil]
Posted BBC News - Wikipedia hosts India conference amid expansion push.
Posted Arab tweeters to get their own voice online - The National.
Posted Facebook status update: I'm pregnant! | Life and style | guardian.co.uk.
http://t.co/SobsEp7r Admire writer "reclaiming art of the secret". Interesting notion "depriving child of online history". Posthuman? #ededc [abuneil]
Posted m.guardian.co.uk.
#ededc move to inclusion re non Euro based languages suggests digiverse perhaps not posthuman but more fully human. Emergence of net lang? [abuneil]
English language dominance to go? http://t.co/0Vk9Zi1m Arabic hashtags for Twitter. Wikipedia woos India http://t.co/p6YcLl56 #ededc [abuneil]
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November 21st
#ededc thought this was interesting concept which may include posthuman elements: http://t.co/LIC1Exfc prof stands in front of green screen [abuneil]
Posted Home - Floating University.
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November 20th
Shared Pool My Car.
#ededc Brilliant writer and his "weird fiction" probably represents closest i've seen to posthuman, especially Kraken. http://t.co/XJ3uKrG2 [abuneil]
Posted rejectamentalist manifesto.
As Carol observed in her blog, after the ethnography I felt like I could take some time to reflect on all that had taken plac...
Published LifeStream Summary 8 & 9.
Posted Thinking about thinking and the Planner brain | Precise Curiosity.
@tukinc #ededc Great ethnography. Totally relate. Can't say more. You can guess why! [abuneil]
Posted Nanorobots.
Posted JSTOR: Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 9-15.
Posted Cybernetics - A Definition.
#ededc I can't get inside the mind of the octopus as also banned. Interesting to speculate why :) Highlights imbalance of information access [abuneil]
@_djcr #ededc article on decisions not altruistic banned here (UAE) as being inconsistent with values of the college I work for. Hmm! [abuneil]
@ Taddlepoosh totally agree redundancy of "post". Yet to agree on what makes us human, so posthuman irrelevant. Prefer "extra-human"! #ededc [abuneil]
BBC News - Wikipedia hosts India conference amid expansion push http://t.co/90N3z4US #ededc game change in how info will present in future [abuneil]
Posted Wikimedia Commons.
Over the last 2 weeks I have been wrestling with 2 threshold concepts; Posthuman and Cyborg. Until I get a handle on at least...
Published 6 Threshold Concept: posthuman #1.
AI moves closer with brain chip - http://t.co/qXa2L0U7 #ededc [abuneil]
AI moves closer with brain chip - http://t.co/qXa2L0U7 [abuneil]
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November 18th
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November 17th
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November 15th
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November 14th
@gfe8 #ededc Yes, too tired to battle with gremlins! [abuneil]
#ededc @gfe8 having 2 give up on trying to do anything on EDC site tonight. Dashboard won't load, feeds won't feed, head hurts! How about u? [abuneil]
Posted Party Writing for Donna Haraway!.
#ededc lost tweets alive & well on lifestream but last night's tweets gone from TweetDeck. Posthuman trauma? I'm naught without my tweets? [abuneil]
#ededc bit weird but all of my twitter postings have disappeared - testing to see what happens now! [abuneil]
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November 13th
@Taddlepoosh If it wisnae for your wellies... u can get away with wearing just about anything here as long as knees and shoulders covered! [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh Wise old friend used to ascribe all such behaviour to being "tired and emotional". The older I get, more sense it makes! [abuneil]
Shared Dream Job.
@Taddlepoosh forgot to mention that was in Saudi! Weather suited pjs there but not sure about Govan:) Move to destructured humanism? #ededc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh I remember seeing signs on coffee shop doors informing punters they would not be admitted if wearing "sleeping clothes" #ededc [abuneil]
Posted The Project | Lirec *.
Posted The Cyborg Name Decoder -- Name Generator and Avatar Creator.
Posted http://www.spurse.org/wiki/images/1/14/Haraway%2C_Companion_Species_Manifesto.pdf.
#gfe8 able to log in now to EDC but LifeStream feeds not updating by themselves. Issues with delicious & some others I've added. #ededc [abuneil]
@gfe8 @anzbau Only my phone was able to make internet connection over the last week & that was pretty feeble. Couldn't log in to EDC. #ededc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh Amazing how many middle aged men walking around Dubai wearing their Ferrari t-shirts, caps, pyjamas etc! Posthuman? #ededc [abuneil]
Posted Cyberfeminism.
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November 10th
Shared Grayson Perry Late.
#ededc off on tangent but wondering... Many women here voluntarily veiled. Often at odds with employers etc. Enforced view of liberation? [abuneil]
#ededc aircon tech responsible for engendering post-human life here. Desalination, air freight food, solar powered parking meters all follow [abuneil]
#ededc Reading Hayward in desert; hammering home how tech now shapes environment. Compare Thesiger in same locale 50 yrs ago! Transformation [abuneil]
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November 7th
Shared Boy For the Job.
Shared Altaf’s Hajj: the tented city.
Published LifeStream Summary Week 7.
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November 6th
Posted Comments on: Ethnography.
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November 4th
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November 3rd
Posted Comments on:.
Preparation Preparing for this assignment brought back memories of being an undergraduate at Edinburgh in the early 1980s. ...
Published Mini Ethnography Assignment.
Posted SIG event information.
Posted Help-You-Learn.
Posted cooltoolsforschools - Home.
Posted TESOL Arabia Learner Independence Special Interest Group.
Posted Comments on:.
Posted Comments on:.
Posted “Ambition is the last refuge of failure”: how Scoop.it was born.
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November 2nd
Posted Symbiosis - Books.
Liked 2 videos.
Posted Living Books About Life Home.
Posted Materialities of Text: Between the Codex & the Net – IMCC Archiving Cultures.
#ededc everything's about culture: http://t.co/Az8pL6a6 Big topic here as pop tips 8.2million with 88% non-local. Whose culture is it? [abuneil]
Posted 24 hours in pictures.
Bookmarked Tokyo diary - a year in pictures | Travel | guardian.co.uk
Bookmarked Culture shock is an issue for Emiratis as well as expatriates - The National
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November 1st
For some reason, certain feeds stopped working on my LifeStream, namely YouTube and Delicious. This meant I had to tinker w...
Published LifeStream Summary Week 6.
Liked 2 videos.
Shared Shorts: Sleepless in South Sudan.
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October 29th
Shared Formal Syntax.
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October 28th
Shared Altaf’s Hajj: Preparation.
Shared My artistic practice.
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October 27th
Posted Retirement calculator: How much should I save for retirement? - MSN Money.
Posted Proposal for two new verbs.
Shared In search of the Vikings.
@jar Sounds like a cool place to be right now! Sun, museums and intellectual stimulation! [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh Dubai construct of myriad influences & absence of National Trust guidelines. U either love it or hate it! Ripe for ethnography [abuneil]
#ededc harking back 2 uncanny & a nod to ethnography, did anyone get chance to try out this art project in St Pancras? http://t.co/uSWaYy2B [abuneil]
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October 26th
I’ve been doing some maintenance work on my LifeStream prompted by the realisation that both the YouTube and Delicious feed...
Published 5 Ethnography.
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October 24th
Posted How big was the world's population when you were born? | Environment | guardian.co.uk.
@Taddlepoosh another site to obsess over! U find great stuff! 3,175,108,858 is my number. I'm older than the country I'm living in! #ededc [abuneil]
This week I wanted my LifeStream to reflect what I actually do online rather than try to find things with which to fill it. A...
Published LifeStream Summary Week 5.
Posted Apple - iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices..
Posted 10 top curries in Dubai - Dubai Pictures Gallery - TimeOutDubai.com.
Posted Google Tools Project.
Liked 2 videos.
Posted Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint letter? - Telegraph.
Posted BBC News - Aboriginal Stonehenge: Stargazing in ancient Australia.
Posted teachers's Channel - YouTube.
Posted Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards | Word Dynamo.
@DGdotNET is membership integral to integration? Interested = assume common bond somewhere. = join. Poss member but not integrated? #ededc [abuneil]
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October 23rd
Shared Theme Song.
Maybe my comments about Zombies were not so tangential after all! Zombie craze continues to infect popular culture posted on ...
Published PS to Uncanny Voices.
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October 22nd
An aspect of social networking from non Western perspective which highlights sense of community and diaspora http://t.co/e7Bfl9fV #ededc [abuneil]
Posted Internet Evolution - Ananda Mitra - Indian Adda: The Essence of Social Networking.
Posted Ananda Mitra's Home Page.
Talking of food making me think of what's missing online; smell, taste, visual impact of fresh servings. How do we compensate online? #ededc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh uv taken me back now; mince, a "fundamental code" I dreaded! Amazing how many memories evoked by that one word! #ededc [abuneil]
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October 21st
@Taddlepoosh Indian friend commented in multiculture workshop: more to understanding culture than just eating each other's food! #ededc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh i c here in Dubai entrenched expat groups recreating fundamental codes but often at odds with "home" which has moved on #ededc [abuneil]
Posted Talkin bout a Revoluition: New Literacies, New Practices.
Posted The Scottish Information Literacy Project: from ICT to digital lite....
Posted perception: cultural differences: Information from Answers.com.
Posted PELeCON 2012.
@anzbau thanks for link to Radiolab. Enjoying the podcasts. So important to not just see/read but hear also. Voices add texture! #ededc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh As itinerant teacher what Foucault says rings true. Much of my life spend referring my NOW back to those fund codes! #ededc [abuneil]
@DGdotNET interesting 2 see how D's ownership aspect pans out. This going to be biggest issue as we go "cloud" etc ie who owns what? #ededc [abuneil]
Liked 2 videos.
@Taddlepoosh Portwiture is such funny idea! Took me little while to get head round what it was doing! now little obsessed with it! #ededc [abuneil]
@DGdotNET r we reading visuals or r they speaking to us? Do we read ethnos or does it speak? Our interpretations implicitly flawed? #ededc [abuneil]
Posted abuneil’s Portwit — Portwiture.
@Taddlepoosh Portwiture is such funny idea! Took me little while to get head round what it was doing! #ededc now little obsessed with it! [abuneil]
@DGdotNET r we reading the visuals or r they speaking to us? Do we read ethnos or does it speak? Our interpretations implicitly flawed#ededc [abuneil]
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October 20th
The richer definition of uncanny provided by the Scots Dictionary confirms for me that the use of uncanny as a descriptive te...
Published 4 Uncanny Voices part 2.
Posted To A Louse.
Posted definition of uncanny from Oxford Dictionaries Online.
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (online version) defines uncanny as: DSL - DOST (Uncanny,) Uncannie, adj. Also: uncany...
Published 3 Uncanny part 1.
Posted Comments on: Visual Artefact.
Posted Comments on: Visual Artefact.
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October 19th
#ededc Christopher Hitchens on the writer's voice http://t.co/UpVqlXQq What voice do we hear when we read online? How do images speak to us [abuneil]
Posted How to Leave Twitter - Grace Dent | Guardian bookshop.
Posted The Art of Curation Class at pariSoma: Teaching a Passion.
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October 18th
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October 17th
Absence. That’s been my theme and my motif for the last 2 weeks. I have been largely absent from my LifeStream. The u...
Published LStream Summary Wks 3 & 4.
Posted Comments on:.
Posted Untitled, Interconnections.
Posted Visual artifact | Kevin's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog.
Posted Comments on: Visual artifact.
Posted » Lo and behold … Ania's E-learning and Digital Cultures.
Posted Comments on: Lo and behold ....
Posted Uncanny pedagogy: Fear or fascination in digital learning environments | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
Posted Uncanny pedagogy: Fear or fascination in digital learning environments | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
Posted Comments on:.
Posted Visual Artefact: We are the Web | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
Posted AI – Avatar Identity – Digital Artifact « Austin's Digital Cultures Blog.
Posted Comments on: AI - Avatar Identity - Digital Artifact.
Posted Desktop « TweetDeck - Your social world, centre stage.
Posted Science Weekly podcast: The carbon nanotechnology revolution | Science | guardian.co.uk.
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October 16th
Shared That‘s a lot of fat people.
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October 15th
Posted Comments on:.
The link to my visual effort “digital thali“. You can watch it frame by frame using the big central arrow under the scree...
Published Visual Artefact.
Liked 10 videos.
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October 14th
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October 12th
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October 11th
Posted Top 5 Online Learning Tools to Make More Money | Online Education Blog.
Posted http://www.thefreelibrary.com/.
Posted http://www.citationmachine.net/index2.php?start=&reqstyleid=2&newstyle=2.
Posted Teaching ONLINE Tools.
Posted Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Top 5 Quiz Generators for Online Educators.
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October 9th
Shared Salary Slip.
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October 7th
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October 5th
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October 4th
Shared Loops.
@DGdotNET Finally saw ur link Guess blocked because word "fake" in url. Interesting to see how censorship online affects eculture! #ededc [abuneil]
@DGdotNET Finally saw link u'd tweeted. Guess blocked because word "fake" in url. Interesting to see how censorship online affects eculture! [abuneil]
Posted Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives.
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October 3rd
Posted Comments on: Thoughts on HAND.
On the surface at least it looks as if not much has taken place on my LifeStream this week. I don’t want to flog last wee...
Published LStream Summary Wk2.
Liked 2 videos.
#ededc concerned about Skype tutorial. Last course Skype Chat didn't work (banned here). Missed all tutorials. e-culture inflexibility? [abuneil]
#ededc Disappointed. Trying to be more visual but WordPress rapidly running out of storage. Online limits to creativity? [abuneil]
Posted Advertising standards.
Shared Karma of the Commute.
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October 1st
I haven’t really found my “blog voice” yet and I’m acutely aware that this is a public forum. However, today saw me...
Published 2 The Computer Says No!.
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September 30th
Shared On medieval metalwork.
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September 29th
#ededc Giving up on SyncTube. Banging on the door but no-one will let me in! Tried both iMac & laptop. Even asked the machines politely. [abuneil]
#ededc having issues with SynchTube. Let's me in the room and I can see the film but disconnects when I try to chat. Guess I'll just lurk! [abuneil]
#ededc @DGdotNET apt example of access re Hand. Ur link prompted "denied access" response because website in conflict with local values! [abuneil]
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September 28th
#ededc contrast evil daleks with loveable robots http://t.co/L9XeAZ8r closer tech looks & sounds like us, is it easier to relate to? [abuneil]
#ededc 4 me scariest image of machine vs humans http://t.co/vIny4qVm How much do such creations reflect inner fears? Influence ideas? [abuneil]
Liked 24 videos.
#ededc couldn't resist this 4 Film Fest. Colossus to disco beat! http://t.co/Ma1XW7Ue Push the button. Mechanism will do the rest 4 u [abuneil]
#ededc @tukinc Good point. In Cybergypsies, Singh is using his own vivid imagination to populate and colour early simulated environments. [abuneil]
Reading the chapter from Hand, 3 recent events that could perhaps be described as having global resonance, struck me; the on-...
Published 1 Where’s the magic?.
Foutering. Adding feeds to My Lifestream is foutery. I haven’t used Twitter since IDEL, YouTube was somewhere I went to...
Published LStream Summary Wk1.
Liked 8 videos.
#ededc @Taddlepoosh Scunnersome day all round. Behind with blog, summary & twitblethers. Need inner Jean Brodie. http://t.co/4NACPKzc [abuneil]
@Taddlepoosh Lol! Emotional reaction to getting head around tech! Terrible stramash! Feel glaikit! Layers of identity peeling off! #ededc [abuneil]
#ededc Maybe "camp" but this song in head as consider themes of machine and humans. Predates cyber but relevant? http://t.co/OWqlLYaL [abuneil]
Posted On Diversity » Intercultural Relations in a Global World.
#ededc back in touch w/Scottish roots; feel all do w/ lstream is fouter & get crabbit. Why elife revives words from 20 yr ago? Heid birling! [abuneil]
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September 27th
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September 26th
Posted The Extended Mind.
Posted Charles Babbage Quotes - Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science Quotations and Scientist Quotes.
Posted BBC News - Babbage Analytical Engine designs to be digitised.
Posted Belief in God Boils Down to a Gut Feeling - Yahoo! News.
@croninsj Educate or entertain people? Or ghastly hybrid edutain? Thinking of quote in Hand: communities=loose bunches of untied ends #ededc [abuneil]
@croninsj Educate or entertain the people? Or ghastly hybrid edutain? Thinking of quote in Hand: communities = loose bunches of untied ends [abuneil]
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September 25th
Shared SlavesIncgeist.
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September 24th
Shared 6 photos.
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September 22nd
@sbayne Agree. Wonder if mobile tech'll change this. Friend won't touch laptop incase breaks it so uses iPhone because "unbreakable" #ededc [abuneil]
Babbage designs to be digitised - http://t.co/kgZe8UP1 #ededc curious what this signifies. The heritage element of [abuneil]
Babbage designs to be digitised - http://t.co/kgZe8UP1 [abuneil]
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September 21st
@Taddlepoosh 'Inception' intrigues me because characters need spinning toy etc to get them out of dream ie not get lost in "machine". #ededc [abuneil]
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September 20th
Shared Shorts: Loop the Loop.
Posted Comments on: Hello world!.
@Taddlepoosh. Thank you for finding the secret to the # key on Mac! I'd resorted to copy paste! #ededc [abuneil]
Thanks for the Film Festival. Seeing Jude made me think about Gattaca. Relationship b/w human/machine + purity vs impurity #ededc [abuneil]
Posted Comments on: Hello world!.
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September 19th
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September 15th
Shared The Cribber next Cube.
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September 14th
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September 13th
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September 12th
Welcome to E-learning and Digital Cultures 2011. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Published Hello world!.
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September 11th
Posted Photo.
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September 10th
Shared Work Life Balance (sic).
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