If you’re a regular visitor to Groundling, you may have noticed that the last few days’ posts have been little compendiums of my online reading for the day. I haven’t posted any original material, but have chosen instead to share my day’s discoveries with my readers. Lazy blogger? Mmm … well I don’t believe in
Continue reading ...Lifehacker – Cameras Improves the Way OS X Deals with Connected Cameras – Annoyances Free download to sort and customise how your Mac deals with the cameras that you attach. (tags: Mac software photos free osx photography) Free by Chris Anderson Download and read 'Free' for free. No catches but it will be a fascinating
Continue reading ...Lifehacker – Best Online Image Editor: Aviary Phoenix – Image Editing And I've never heard of Aviary Phoenix. I tend not to use online image editors, but can see why this will probably be the way of the future … and for free. (tags: photos software) TED Blog: 3 ways the brain creates meaning: Tom
Continue reading ...How to Build a Successful Blog Tim Ferriss on how he did it … successfully. Blogging's not dead; it's just evolved. This is a 50 minute video. Worth a look. (tags: video blogging tips) Green Monsters: bad banana blog I've just finished listening to a terrific reading of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' from Audible
Continue reading ...(At time of writing) A disclaimer for context: I am Chairman of the Board of Queensland Theatre Company, so I do move in territory often inhabited by what one blog commenter elsewhere rather unkindly, though I hope with witty intent, called ‘old arts farts.’ Ya gotta laugh. But I also move as an audience member/supporter
Continue reading ...The insights of Clay Shirky are always worth reading, watching, or listening to. He’s as knowing as he is prolific. This video via TED says it all. Welcome to the revolution – you’re right in the middle of it.
Continue reading ...When the first generation iPod came out in 2001, I immediately saw its potential as a tool for learning in Higher Ed, and especially in my field, theatre. I was one of the first, via a loaner from AUC (Apple University Consortium in Australia) to take it for a test drive and report on the
Continue reading ...I’ve been collecting snippets of my life for years. I guess I am a confirmed diarist at heart, although the collection process is random and not nearly as organised as it might be. I’ve had a camera since I was 11 years old – a Box Brownie as I recall – and have been collecting
Continue reading ...An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance.
Continue reading ...I followed a reasonably heated Friend Feed debate-thread some days ago. It was initiated by someone complaining about Twitter ‘crap’ appearing in the Friend Feed Home feed and supposedly diverting or undermining ‘meaningful’ threaded conversation; it was clearly a gate-keeper post by someone who felt Friend Feed’s real strength was being diluted by these disembodied
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