Monday was a pretty sleepless night, being woken throughout the early hours by a no response phone call can destroy your sense of humour, if not your confidence in technology. It started at 1am, and actually continued for 16 hours, and maybe longer, as only after that time I decided to take drastic action and [...]
I was not much good at music in school. Mind you it was not the sort of education that students and pupils get today, and although there are greater opportunities for young people to learn an instrument, many are still self-taught, or are motivated to teach themselves. In the last few years the internet has [...]
As Jim Knight, Minister for Employment was tweeting from the House of Commons as candidates for the Speaker’s position were making their speeches, other public servants and employees were increasingly being banned from using social networking.
In Plymouth, Barry Keel, the Chief Executive of Plymouth City Council, banned democratically elected councillors from using Twitter. The email [...]
The latest money saving idea from the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace state text books with digital technology. The Times Online goes further in explaining that, “Mr Schwarzenegger announced the ban on textbooks in a classroom in Sacramento” saying:
“Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion. For so many years, we’ve been trying to [...]
Yahoo a few days ago started sticking pavement signs around London. The idea is to create a viral photography event getting the population to take photos with their mobile phones using MMS, email or tags in Flickr (MMS 07786 201 809, email brilliantspot@yahoo.co.uk, add it to the ‘Brilliant Spots’ group on Flickr). A pretty cool [...]
As I’m preparing a session for a workshop which I’m doing next week on “Social networking beyond school: understanding social networking sites used by your students“, I’m struck by the number of news stories that illustrate the controversy of using sites like Facebook and Twitter in everyday life. For example, this weekend, we have the [...]
My iPhone arrived on Friday and I’ve been playing with it all weekend. Having previously not bought into upgrading my phone every few months this was a big physiological step for me. Sure I thought I wanted lightweight, anywhere, anytime mobility but viewed it as rather a luxury than a necessity. I thought, I’d get [...]
The Backchannel is becoming increasing important and although a feature of many technology conferences, few that I have attended in the last few years have used or developed it effectively. In this post a year ago, I remember speculating on why this might be, and the work that it entailed. But that was BT (Before [...]
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 [...]
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