Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

I’m increasingly becoming affected by Twitter these days. With tools like Friendbar and using Flock as my browser (and there are so many other tools, any yet more!), I’m constantly getting tweets from educators and friends as long as I’m on the internet. Receiving tweets via my mobile phone is a place where I don’t [...]

We know that many people avoid making a Will. But for those that do, does it address what should happen to their virtual online presence? Stephanie Bemister, sister of William Besmister, the investigative journalist has realised the importance of this. William died in November, and it is only now that Facebook has agreed to remove [...]

Twitter has got an awful lot of press lately. The conversation between Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross on the latter’s return to the BBC on Friday Night might have sparked it, but there were rumblings before. This weekend the Telegraph devoted two broadsheet pages to the micro-blogging site, having already published Twitter’s top 30 (a [...]

“Technology is a glittering lure but there’s the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product … the most important idea in advertising is new, it creates an itch, you sort of put your product in there as a kind of [...]

Believe it or not this post is not about who I’m following on Twitter, which would probably be very boring and of little interest. This post is about Tyler Plack, the confident young man that demonstrates what kids are doing using web 2.0 technology. He has his own video blog called Tylers’ Computer Show, and [...]