Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 25th, 2008 in Social Networks
To be an early adopter of new web applications and specifically Web 2.0 social networks and User Generated Content (UGC) based sites like Norg, Twitter, Brightkite etc means that you come in before that site or network has reached critical mass.
Tags: community, criticalmass, social, socialnetworks, UGC, users
Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 16th, 2008 in General, Government and Government 2.0, OpenAustralia, Rights and Censorship
OpenAustralia is a site that aggregates House of Representatives debates with data about the Members of the House of Reps and presents it in a way that makes it easy to see what debates your Member in your electorate is participating, what they’re saying.
Tags: Australia, beta, community, discrimination, freedom, matthewlandauer, OpenAustralia, opengovernment, politics, project, rights, speech, theyworkforyou
Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 12th, 2008 in General, OpenAustralia, Social Networks
Aussie Bloggers will soon be celebrating its sixth month of operation two weeks from now, and it has undoubtedly been a huge success. With close to 30,000 posts on the forum so far it’s been great to see bloggers from all over Australia come together.
Tags: aussiebloggers, Australia, australian, blog, blogging, community, forum, launch, OpenAustralia, site, socialnetwork
Posted by Nathanael Boehm on February 16th, 2008 in Free Australia Wireless, General
I’ve written a blog post over at Free Canberra Wireless that you might be interested in if you’re wondering why myself and other people across the country and in fact the world are asking you to allow strangers (which could include your very own neighbours that you haven’t “had time” to meet) to share your [...]
Tags: blog, community, freecanberrawireless, freethenet, meraki, share, wifi, wireless
Posted by Nathanael Boehm on November 7th, 2007 in General
I’m almost tempted to take the day off so I can set them up! Unfortunately I only have 0.2 days of rec leave to last me the next 2 months …
More info on the Free Canberra Wireless project
Mark Pesce’s Web Directions South 2007 presentation “Mob Rules” - a segment of his presentation was about Meraki, [...]
Tags: adsl, antenna, bandwidth, box, broadband, community, data, freewirelesscanberra, hardware, internet, isp, meraki, merakimini, meshnetwork, networking, package, relay, router, sharing, size, wifi, wireless