Ada Lovelace Day, March 24 #geekgirl

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.

Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge at Finding Ada and publish your blog post any time on Wednesday 24th March 2010.

Who was Ada Lovelace?

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.

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Bird Turd, Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets #poop

Bird Turd :: Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets

Bird Turd makes Twitter a game. In Bird Turd, YOU are the bird. And when you see a tweet you don‘t like, YOU CAN POOP RIGHT ON IT.!!

That‘s right, facebook doesn‘t have a dislike button, but now twitter does! So if you have a love/hate, or just a hate, relationship with twitter, you can show your dissatisfaction with Bird Turd

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Delimiter – Tech in Oz site

Delimiter  : Technology and Australia.

Providing news, opinions, feature articles, profiles and multimedia content exclusively about the Australian market, leaving international coverage to those overseas. The audience is primarily professionals in Australia’s ICT industry, as well as the broader secondary community of Australian technology enthusiasts.

Hence, we primarily cover the local IT and telecommunications industries, but also the introduction and usage of consumer technology in the Australian market, as well as the top gaming stories.

The site was started in early 2010 by established Australian technology journalist and editor Renai LeMay with the aim of providing the nation with a strong independent voice about the local technology community.

What does ‘Delimiter’ mean?
The name ‘Delimiter’ is a technology term which you might have heard referred to in the context of databases. Wikipedia states: “A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams.”

Founder
Delimiter is published by Renai LeMay (@renailemay on Twitter), one of Australia’s best-known technology journalists and editors.

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HatchMatchDispatch a new Australian site for births, deaths and marriage announcements

HatchMatchDispatch is a new Australian-developed website that will bring people together from all over the world to save and share their special moments in life. 

Founder, Geoff Drucker says, “HatchMatchDispatch is a site for births, deaths, engagements, marriages and more.  It is designed to allow people to share their life moments from new things happening (‘Hatch’), to them coming together with others (‘Match’) or chapters ending (‘Dispatch’).

“Other classified ad categories like cars, jobs and real estate have been huge successes online, but the difference with HatchMatchDispatch is that announcements are free. Touted as ’social networking’ around special moments.

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IBM FITT #Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23, 2010 #geekgirl

IBM FITT Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23

Hmmmmmm, senior female IBM executives…

   – Janet Matton – IBM Vice President Sales Operations And Executive
   – Nicole Crooks  – IBM Vice President, SO & Global Technology Services
   – Robyn Woodley – IBM Client Director BHP
   – Jane Chen  – IBM Executive IT Architect

The IBM panel will discuss matters related to their careers in the ICT industry, and the challenges and opportunities they see for business in 2010 and beyond.

After the presentations we will have question time for the audience to ask questions to the panel and then networking time and refreshments.

For more information, goto FITT website<>
(Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications)
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Date & Times:
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Arrive: 5.30pm
Finish: 7.30pm

Venue:
The Arts Centre
Level 8, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

The Arts Centre is a couple of minutes walk from Flinders Street Station
Or take any tram (except tram no.1) along St Kilda Road and disembark at the
Arts Centre. Stop number 14.

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Tweeting Dog Collar Posts Your Dog’s Movements to Twitter

Mattel is about to launch a toy that will brighten the lives of some dog lovers — but act as a sign of the coming apocalypse for folks who aren’t so keen on cute pet gimmicks. It’s called Puppy Tweet, and it gives your dog the ability to send Twitter updates about what he or she is doing.

Well, sort of.

The collar detects when your dog moves or make a sound, then randomly selects one of 500 pre-written tweets to post to Twitter. Your dog has to be within a reasonable distance of the room with your computer in it, though; the tweets are sent wirelessly from the collar to a USB receiver that has to be plugged into a supported Internet-connected device.

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Check out Mozo’s Vice Calculator and become Australia’s first vice president.

It’s on the search for Australia’s first “vice” president using the quirky Vice Calculator. The “vice” calculator shows how much you will spend on vices in your lifetime.

Here’s a chance to figure out your vices, either giggling heartedly or nervously at the results! Mozo is asking people to post their “vice score” and a campaign pledge on Facebook to win $5,000. Perhaps a great way to bring some levity to the excess of the silly season and fuel for a New Year resolution!

Check out the campaign landing page and maybe find out your vice score:

• http://mozo.com.au/vice-calculator

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60×60 is collaborating with ICMC (International Computer Music Conference 2010)

Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in length to be included in its eighth annual 60×60 project!

60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour concert.

For this special event we are looking for 360 works for 6 one hour performances at Stony Brook University and New York City: 360 degrees of 60×60.

We are also have an International Mix and a microtonal mix (the UnTwelve Mix) I also have venues for another UK Mix, Midwest Mix, Canada Mix, and Pacific Rim Mix. (if we get enough submissions. get it? if you submit.there is a possibility of 12 different mixes. that is 720 slots with a great chance of multiple performances around the globe and the possibility of a multimedia collaboration with video or dance that are getting press reviews and attending audiences in the thousands.)

ICMC has an online submission process.
http://music.oc.cct.lsu.edu/author/submit.php
check the 60×60 box and then upload your ZIP file containing your submission form (PDF) and sound file (AIFF) (I know it says MP3 is allowed but don’t do that for 60×60 submissions)

you can get the submission form here:
http://www.VoxNovus.com/60×60/Call.htm

The idea is to activate the entire community of electro-acoustic music.

Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
60×60 Director
Living Music Foundation Vice President
Founder of Vox Novus
http://www.VoxNovus.com

> Submissions must be uploaded by December 31st, 2009.

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#Geek in Residence. Grant opportunities for Australian geeks and technologists.

Geek in Residence brings the expertise of technically confident artists and creative technicians together with a host organisation.

Deadline: 9 December, 2009.

Check out the details at http://artsdigitalera.com/gir

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Streamflow Conditions and Timestamp. An online exhibition, 24 hours of networked #writing starts Dec 5, 09.

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks
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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press
http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
José Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST]

Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Denver, Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means.

Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists’ individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, “timestampstream” and intercepted at Subito Press. You are invited to follow along and respond.

The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6.

*see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

SITES: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

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twitter.com/timestampstream (follow/respond)

STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS

Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves).

**gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site.

TIMESTAMP SHIFTS
[ use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]

1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze

2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher

3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres

4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre

5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover

6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley

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