Excuse the intermission break…
…I was presenting at an Intergraph GIS conference where there was no 3G Internet access, so I was in the dark the whole time. (though I admit they did have WiFi, but of course my notebook didn’t 
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Pleased to report though, that the Twinwaters Resort on the Sunshine Coast of Australia was very nice indeed!
How fast are your reflexes?
Addictive time waster alert! Cool little Flash game for testing your reflexes…..
Scobleizer meltdown? or a tough balancing act.
Scoble’s post on his site about Off for a few days to live life is a reflection on the stress he seems to be feeling regarding his committment to blogging. This is the main reason that Scoble is an A-List blogger, his passion for it This passion is evident in his blogging and his presentations, but it’s not his job to perform this. Remember that he is a technical evangelist for an operating system at Microsoft. Scoble’s post shows the stress & strain of living 3 lives simultaneously. Family, business & fame.
Most people would just stop blogging for a few days once it became to demanding, but Scoble has to deal with the cyberspace fans that are constantly eating his every word & actively digesting. When hunger pains appear, their ravenous appetite must be satisfied, and it will be elsewhere.
So hopefully Scoble can take a few days off and switch off to concentrate on life’s more important things, as should we all from time to time. During my 8 years at Microsoft I attended more MS employee funerals than my own friends & family’s in 30 years. The greater percentage of these was from stress related diseases such as cancer.
Find balance and be accountable for how you live it. In other words, the choices we make may not always be easy ones, but live with the choices made, don’t let them feed on you.
The guys of G’day World open The Podcast network
Cameron Reilly & Mick Stanic of G’day World fame, have branched out into the big bad world of podcast aggragation! You don’t need an iPod for this just any ol’ MP3 player to listen to these shows whilst in the car or on the bus.
Cool visuals @ Flickr Graph – a social network visualisation
Now this is just pure cool.
Flickr Graph is a great example of visualising Digital Social Networks. This is six degrees of seperation on a whole new level.
Accessing your pictures, movies & TV from anywhere!
Wow! Another major reason to purchase a Windows Media Center PC. Check out the ORB Service.
I spoke about convergence at the Ericsson Developer Day a few weeks back and Orb 1.0 is a great example of this in action.
You can access via your home broadband connection your home Media Center or Windows XP system, pictures, movies & TV (live & recorded) to any mobile connected Windows device.
Cool!
Skype on I-mates
i-Mate & Skype announced that the newly manufacturered imate PDA2K & PDA2 handsets will have Skype installed utilising the WiFi & GSM/GPRS RF of the devices.
Prototypes of the new technology will be demoed at 3GSM in Cannes this Feb.
Just discovered Kotaku gaming blog
His article on Will of Steel which is a new game whereby you can supposedly control your troops via voice had me laughing out loudly at the office today….. nobody else around me got it <sigh>
Mobcasting – consumer created newscasting.
Louise van Rooyen dropped this tid-bit in the comments of an earlier blog on my site about the concept of Mobcasting.
What a great idea! Of course, we have the ability now to use the e-mail functionality of the device to send an image and text to our online blogs (like a lot of my posts here), but imagine having a Moblog service where you could do a video call to your blog, re an event you are witnessing or wanting to share.
Then taking this idea further, getting "user producers" to aggragate the best of these from one event into a themed area for other users to view.
3G carriers take note, the consumer created content is not only about sharing photos alone, it is the ability to track real world events with all aspects of media (text, audio, pictures & video) and sharing this with the greater online community.
As an example (other than Andy’s anarchistic one 
) let’s investigate a large event such as the Sydney Festival (Australia) that was on recenty here and consumers do the direct reviews, coverage & interviews on these events. Publisher-users could then aggregate these feeds into their blogs on specific topics. These sites are then available via the 3G content services AND on the web. These could extend to other aspects such as food/restaurant reviews etc…
Ride the wheely thingy!
Ahhh, yet another something to add to my list of Birthday & Christmas presents for 2005.
Gadgeteryblog have located another Shane toy, called the Wheelsurf, that you ride inside of and steer by tiliting left and right. Made in Brazil no less!
Universal Convergence 