Flickr perversion: a response

For the last two days I have been seeing @courosa tweet about Flickr perversion. I’ve looked over his Flickr photos a few times and they convey to me that he’s a family guy with a cute little boy and girl.  I wasn’t entirely sure what he was talking about, and just thought it was about inappropriate [...]

What will I think of myself in 20 years?

I had an interesting discussion with a classmate late night.  We were talking about communicating online, using Facebook of all things and he cited his reluctance to do pretty much anything online because he considers that once it’s online it’s in his words “published” and “permanent”.  He also noted that he is reluctant to comment on [...]

Not everyone is a born writer… My lesson in webinar design

So.  The text tool in a webinar. A lesson in knowing your audience. When I designed our small pilot webinar series about 12 months ago I observed something which really influenced my designs in the current project we are running. It wasn’t something I’d explicity learned working as a moderator in another role, and I [...]

My (secret) online identities

I’ve been thinking about this digital literacy thing from my own reality.  There are heaps of definitions out there which basically say that to communiucate properly and safely online you need to be digitally literate, I’ve found Leigh Blackall’s work useful in the area of digital literacy. As our physical and digital lives increasingly converge, [...]