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Notes on Design - A conversation about Omnium

Notes On Design invited Rick Bennett and I to talk about our experiences of long-distance and global online creative collaboration within the Omnium Research Group.

Rick and I have often felt that some of the more interesting conversations we have had have been over a couple of beers in informal settings, rather than sometimes dry and […]

Fare Thee Well.

The times they are a-changin’. In the next couple of weeks the Omnium team here in Sydney will be undergoing some major shifts in personnel. On the outer:

Sam Bauers will be leaving us to work full-time with Automattic Inc., makers of WordPress blogging software and wordpress.com free blogging service. Sam was […]

The Changing Nature of Information

Just on the way back from the Icograda conference in Cuba - we’ll post a PDF and paper of our presentation soon. There were several questions from the audience about the changing nature of culture and “how can we define it/fit it into our curricula?”. This seems to me to be the wrong way of […]

We’re hiring

We’re currently looking for a linux sys-admin to run our Gentoo based web-servers.

Check out the listing on Seek.

The position will be responsible for looking after our client services as well as contributing to the development of new solutions. It’s a good opportunity to get paid to work in support of an open-source initiative that has […]

Everything is Miscellaneous

Good post over at Creative Generalist reviewing David Weinberger’s new book Everything is Miscellaneous. The main thrust appears to be about how the internet and computers have radically changed the way we seek, use and organise information and how most of existing monolithic structures (read: education) are bound by the fact that most paper-based information […]