Moms keep you honest. My mother and I cover a lot of ground in our weekly chats and this week we were talking about Internet Neutrality, how internet newbies can find sites to trust and RSS feeds.
As far as Net Neutrality goes, I was able to tell her I’d researched it and pointed her at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Technologies'
RSS explanation for mom
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Social networking · Technologies
Covering conferences nuts and bolts
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sharing an event with people who cannot attend and making that experience as rich as possible can often involve risk. I took a few risks yesterday and ventured into uncharted waters in trying to bring the Digital Education Revolution Symposium’s Adelaide leg to a remote audience and have since slapped my forehead over things I [...]
Tags: My personal learning journey · Technologies · digital photography · mobile technologies
Prince of luddites?
June 1st, 2008 · No Comments
An interesting argument over who owns what is going on between Radiohead and Prince that highlights the divide between those who “get” new media and those who don’t.
Prince, who released an album in 1997 on the internet and recieved a Webby award for lifetime achievement seems to have soured on the whole www thing.
At a [...]
Tags: Technologies
US net neutrality and have your say on future of broadband in Australia
May 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is my longest blog post ever, but the way I see it - the future of the internet is at stake here, so I wanted to gather my thoughts and resources in one spot and ensure I understood what was going on.
First up, it’s all fang’s fault for pointing me towards this “open source documentary” on net [...]
Tags: Broadband · Issues · My personal learning journey · Research · Technologies
Do you wag the tail?
May 24th, 2008 · No Comments
This is a bit of a bold confession for someone who works in ICT and spends most of her life online: I’m not an early adopter. I’ll admit it - those brave souls that boldly go forth and test drive a multiplicity of new services are doing the work for me. I’m not at the [...]

