Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20

  • Thx @phonakins but trav @DavidLMackie was being nice and we had a good chat on farm bike riding (which I'm used to) vs road bikes 🙂 #
  • Gov2qld linked in group for #gov2au stuff happening in qld and to collaborate with others 🙂 #bcc2011 #
  • Listening to talk about http://www.greatvenue.info to document accessibility of venues to make places more awesome 🙂 Check it out! #bcc2011 #
  • Amusing lightning talk by @happysinger re differentiation between pirates and piracy #bcc2011 Saying we need to evolve our language on this. #
  • April 30th, SkeptiCamp in Sydney, sounds interesting. "We are about science and reason" #bcc2011 #
  • Mint robots look awesome 🙂 #bcc2011 http://bit.ly/ds3TmO #
  • Erk, my last talk on #datavis & mapping was crap, sorry folks! Will do a detailed, useful (and overdue) blog post to make it up 🙂 #bcc2011 #
  • Great talk on online consultation from Vic gov guy. Just pointed out forcing online signups to consult is barrier to participation! #bcc2011 #
  • Great point that there needs to be a separation of presenting evidence and presenting policy so evidence can stand alone #bcc2011 #
  • Apparently about to talk in front of @Jester_Jeff 😉 #bcc2011 #
  • My discussion on #opendata and data.gov.au is at 1410, & then I'm doing a talk on #datavis & maps at 1450 for those interested 🙂 #bcc2011 #
  • I just got in trouble for suggesting the bucket of titanium hips from the crematorium could be for cost recovery 😉 #bcc2011 #
  • Listening to a talk about being cremated, rockin' 😉 #bcc2011 #
  • Just met @emotivate at #bcc2011 🙂 Very interested in talking about @gov2qld and #gov20 stuff in Canada 🙂 I love barcamps! 🙂 #
  • To all you #bcc2011 ppl who say "it's not about the tech", tech is also important so don't discount it or you won't get anywhere 😛 #bcc2011 #
  • Good point from @trib, gov depts need "community managers" agitator ppl to drive online foo, adoption, etc. #bcc2011 Ppl need geeks 😉 #
  • Online collab: "no one talks in gov, no one is allowed to collab". Also "enemy to online collab is travel perks" 🙂 #bcc2011 #
  • I just said "a little less tech" at #bcc2011 in my defense lets talk more about online collab in gov & less about which version sw 😛 @trib #
  • GovDex is an AGIMO hosted (free) collab tool, currently has 20,000 people across 2,000 communities #bcc2011 #
  • Online collab: "many gov depts see social media as a tech thing, not comms". Personally I reckon both tech & comms skills needed #bcc2011 #
  • Interesting session on online collaboration by AGIMO, @trib now suggesting AGIMO should do more facilitation of awesome #bcc2011 #
  • #bcc2011 RT #barcampcanberra in gr8 talk on #MakeHackVoid need to get along for hacking, awesome! 🙂 Vote 1 for @evildeece's nametag! 🙂 #
  • Bugger! Just realised most ppl are using #bcc2011 so going to retweet my #barcampcanberra tweets to that hashtag! Fie! 🙂 #
  • I want programmable nametag like @evildeece's to wear at work. Perhaps "in ur parlimentz, openen ur govimentz" 😉 #barcampcanberra #
  • At #barcampcanberra in great talk about #MakeHackVoid need to get along for hacking, awesome stuff! 🙂 Vote 1 for @evildeece's nametag! 🙂 #
  • Argh! Forgot my charger, if anyone at #barcampcanberra has an HTC charger pls find me 🙂 forgot to charge overnight :/ #
  • I'm not bringing bike to #barcampcanberra now as I need to bring hardware, hopefully a @jdub & I rly shld work my way up to 2hrs ride 😉 #
  • Just had to post this. Gratuitous puppy photo of Po, exhausted in my car after a few hours playing 🙂 http://t.co/vrYFIkn #
  • You all totally rock 🙂 @craigthomler @NETDe @sherro58 @RayPoynter @atomic_anu @chieftech #
  • See may of you at #barcampcanberra tomorrow. I'm excited! I hope I'm up to riding my bike in, it'll be my first time on the highway 🙂 #
  • Annoying songs that plagued me today: Spanish Flea, I'm Too Sexy & random Bieber crap. Balanced out by Ain't No Rest For The Wicked & NIN 🙂 #
  • Hey @edhusicMP, thought you might like this twibbon for #HarmonyDay 🙂 http://twb.ly/gxq5sd /cc @katelundy #
  • Woot for maps! 🙂 RT @KateLundy New post: Find a Harmony Day event near you! http://bit.ly/hyEF7E #HarmonyDay #gov2au #
  • Playing a lot of Borderlands atm with my bro, amazing game esp 2 player. Gr8 intro/theme song 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX-1MjpZZN0 #
  • Support Harmony Day 2011, add a #twibbon now! – http://twb.ly/gxq5sd – Create one here – http://twb.ly/f02AU3 #
  • All right already! Still good to see you all come out of the woodwork 😉 @Du4 @jim_croft @trib #
  • I'm surprised, I throw a Fight Club quote out there, and no response. And I had such high hopes for you all 😉 #
  • Hi @Heavenly_Hev, I noticed you already created a #HarmonyDay Twibon, I was going to make a transparent one for ppl if that's cool 🙂 #
  • Google Fusion Tables, I love you! You make creation of awesome customised maps easy & fun! I may do maps/datavis talk at @BarCampCanberra 🙂 #
  • Interesting, forum about public transport (& no doubt the lack thereof) in Yass for those interested 🙂 http://www.tpmplanning.com/yass.html #
  • Yay! Just a cold, no whooping cough for me! Back to work tmrw and I'm going for a bike ride to celebrate leaving isolation 🙂 #
  • Double rainbows!!?! OMG! 🙂 RT @ Rog42: What does it mean????? http://t.co/svc9vqm #
  • RT to #gov20 🙂 Gr8 new blog by @jameskliemt of QLD Police on their use of social media: RT You’ve come a long way baby http://is.gd/YbR7u2 #
  • Great new blog by @jameskliemt of QLD Police on their use of social media: RT You’ve come a long way baby http://is.gd/YbR7u2 #gov2au #em20 #
  • Delightful IRC convo on pros & cons of eye gouging for self defence. My thoughts: too risky when there are easier more effective options 😉 #
  • Heh, actually some quite funny ones 🙂 RT @sgentle You might like spamusement.com – Far Side-style illustrations of spam subject lines 😀 #
  • Why does badly spelt spam annoy me so much more than ordinary spam? Also, creative spam has started to amuse me, Stockholm syndrome? 🙂 #
  • Interesting RT @abcthedrum Western intervention is not always on the side of the angels, writes Michael Brull http://bit.ly/ek7zOS #
  • Survey for women/men re women in open culture communities 🙂 RT @AdaInitiative open technology & culture census. http://svy.mk/adacensus2011 #
  • Although that vid fake many "genuine" ones popping up, morons >:/ RT @dannolan: Japan's earthquake? Atheist's fault. – http://t.co/L1yluPs #
  • Wow, gr8 paper by iinet RT @glynmoody: Encouraging Legitimate Use of OnLine Content – http://t.co/MQ6WErl #piracy (v @1petermartin @jdub) #
  • Just had my first nasal swab, sounded a lot less of a pain than it was 🙁 Off into isolation till we are sure it isn't serious. Woot. #
  • Am home today awaiting test results for whooping cough. Hope its just a cold :/ Daytime tv is enough to make anyone feel worse tho 😉 #
  • AUSFTA+ACTA+TPP=AUSFAIL 🙁 RT @kattekrab look at @czaxx copyright post – TPP turning ISPs into copyright police http://bit.ly/e7j4LR #
  • Anyone else interested in going to Rollerderby in Canberra this weekend (after BarCamp)? 🙂 http://bit.ly/i8ojRp #

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