geekstories

This week I decided to interview two experts in the local online communities, social networking and citizen journalism space.First up is Laurel Papworth, a lecturer, online community expert and WoW fan. Laurel has worked for many gaming community sites, as well as incubating many…

Joel Pobar's Geek Story.Joel comes over as a mild-mannered geek. Underneath his manner is developer who knows his stuff: especially when it comes to Microsoft's CLR, dynamic languages and some personal research he is doing that was presented at BarCampSydney.For more up-to-date info, visit Joel's…

Whilst at BarCampSydney, I caught up with two Australian startups: one hardware and the other online.Cylo have produced the 3Dstyle mouse, highlighted at the recent CES Event.Tangler.com is a group interaction and communication site.Hear Mick from Tangler and Laurence from Cylo describe; and show;…

BarCampSydney, held at University Technology Sydney on Saturday 3rd March 2007. Being a Saturday, I hired my 15 year old son Liam to be my cameraman for the day. Thanks, Liam!The better audio quality is thanks to a new condenser microphone, which is highly directional and sound recorded with…

In the quest to capture more of Australia's Geek Stories, I attended the first BarCamp in Sydney.Hear stories of joy and delight, power and passion. And of course, just downright geeky.