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The Wall at Te Papa

October 16, 2008

There’s a great new interactive exhibit at Te Papa. The Wall is part of a big new development “Our Space”. I stood and watched people interacting with the wall for ages. Much of the time they were playing with the technology but unconciously perhaps they’re telling the story of New Zealand(ers). It’s not […]

Muller and Hatch, orators and entrepreneurs

October 12, 2008

My friend Logan Muller is a brilliant speaker. He uses appreciative inquiry to move people to a position of wanting to do something to improve the world. As part of this he uses a device of simultaneously looking forward and back. To summarise (and without the eloquence or passion), in 30 years […]

Posts from ACTS: David Thompson on 3D sustainability

October 7, 2008

David Thompson spoke about 3D sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. He got a mixed reception. Some hadn’t seen SecondLife before and were impressed. Others gave him quite a hard time. They picked up on his “gee, second life is cool, you should use it for sustainability” and probed […]

eDay Dunedin

October 4, 2008

Flickr pics We called down to the Dunedin branch of eDay today. It was fantastically organised and everyone was in good spirits – well done Cath and Ros. Here’s the slideshow. I was struck by the volume of CRT monitors (far exceeding the number of boxes). Many of the screens seemed to be […]

Talk for Tertiary IT Managers conference: Beyond Virtualisation-

September 19, 2008

I gave a talk today at the 26th Annual Tertiary IT Managers conference. “Beyond Virtualisation: what’s next for IT sustainability”. I explored computing and sustainability imperative, particularly in the tertiary sector. We looked at what other disciplines are doing and explored what it might mean to be a sustainable practitioner in computing. We […]