I had a very interesting conversation with Tim Mansfield, who designs distributed social media infrastructures with a stress on its social, and not just technological, dynamics. I was very impressed by his thorough understanding of the matter, and very much intrigued by his blog , which I led you discover by yourself .

Next in line in terms of meeting interesting people was Malcolm Faed, who is, and I’m very impressed, making an open source self balancing scooter (think Segway). Perhaps one day, he will make come through the original promise of this transportation technology, which is very expensive for the moment.

His presentation refers to the similar preparatory work by Geoffery D Bennett – for the source code and tuning software and to Trevor Blackwell . There’s a video in slide 19 of his presentation.

On another evening in Sydney, we had dinner with Ross Harley , video artist and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, who published an amazing book analysing the network flows in airports, entitled Aviopolis . His delicious tags show his wide ranging interests.

Sean Fitzgerald is a tireless advocate for peer-based e-learning approaches in Australia. Here is his blog and wiki

There is of course no need to present Mark Pesce , who’s making his mark in Australia, (he’s about to become a citizen). Here is his visual blog .