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Anti-Procrastination Coaching
My interest in personal change, communication and making an impact in the world has led me to study life coaching, as well as unofficially studying psychology and taking other courses in personal effectiveness. After coaching informally for some time, I'm now establishing my life coaching business. I work with people around the world via Skype or ( Read more... ) -
New blog
My new personal blog is at chriswaterguy.com (feed). Lots to say, on communication, society, science, the environment, what's happening with Appropedia, & whatever catches my attention - but I say it concisely. -
RecentChangesCamp2012 in Canberra
Australians with any interest in wikis: Don't miss this event if you can help it, the coming weekend (plus the Friday if you can make it) - 20-22 Jan, 2012 in Canberra.
It's free, and it's catered, but it'll be more awesome the more people turn up to share their perspectives - whether geeky, ed-oriented, #Gov20, or other relevant themes.
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LiveJournal giving in to comment spam?
LiveJournal comment spam is getting ridiculous, and the CAPTCHA option in our settings does nothing to stop it.
We have to deal with spam on Appropedia, but we don't let it get out of control like this. We use the spam url blacklist from Wikimedia sites, and we have the option of restricting posts containing urls, e.g. by anonymous and new users. ( Read more... ) -
Awesomely gunky ads
Late night television in Indonesia involves watching a lot of vignettes where awesome good-looking men do awesome things. sometimes with admiring good-looking women looking on. Some of them are quite inspiring. Not in any tangible way, mind you - just the way that watching a superhero movie is inspiring ( Read more... ) -
Web development internships with Appropedia
We're expanding our internship programs for Appropedia - for those who want to learn about wikis and make a difference at the same time. One of the programs I'm looking forward to is our web development internship - for those wanting to get experience with MediaWiki and/or WordPress and Python. The model is that we have a team with interns and a ( Read more... ) -
They call it "balance"
Email conversation after the recent election in NSW, Australia. Context: The Greens increased their vote by 2% to about 12%, but this was dwarfed by the massive swing against the Labor party, to the Liberals [for non-Australians, the "Liberals" are actually our conservative party]. We could analyze why they didn't do a lot better, but the simple ( Read more... ) -
Wiki-thinking at the World Bank
The World Bank's Chief Economist for Africa asks:
Why not produce the [World Development Report] like Wikipedia, and invite the whole world to write it?
See the full post on the Appropedia blog:
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Recognizing the threat: Orwell and communism
All we see of George Orwell in popular culture is a shallow TV program that uses his sinister theme of "Big Brother". But he was one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, all the greater because worked hard to express his ideas clearly, and because he risked his life for his beliefs - ultimately losing it to illness which he probably picked up ( Read more... )