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An online notebook
Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian: The biggest complaint, in both my Twitter sample and the expert essays, was about the quality of thinking in the online era. What the internet has done, say the dissenters, is damage our ability to…
I’m hosting free webinar, thanks to Learning Pool, that will take you through the benefits that technology can bring to collaboration within public services. Covering the main tools and the strategies to implement them, attendees will be able to identify…
I had the pleasure earlier today to speak at a meeting of the Scottish Knowledge Management Network (link requires sign-in) in Aberdeen, hosted by the very generous SubSea7. My slides are embedded below. If you can’t see them, there’s a…
A quick post as I am preparing my slides for the knowledge management talk I’m delivering on Thursday. In the slides, one of the key points is that the internet from the very beginning was designed as a tool for…
The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov looks like it will be useful and interesting reading for those interested in the internet and its effects on politics and democracy, providing something of an alternative (thanks to Dom for the wording advice)…
I just downloaded the latest update to Apple’s computer operating system, Mac OSX, which brings with it an app store, like the sort on your mobile phone, or iPad. It means that I can browse for, pay for (if necessary)…
There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to…
I haven’t done one of these for a while, sorry! Here’s the third in my series of 101 cool social media tools, it’s Doodle! Doodle is a neat little tool for organising when to meet groups of people. Someone starts…
Google announced a bunch of stuff last week, finally bringing to the mainstream some bits of tech that have been bubbling away for a few years now. One is the Chrome operating system, a lightweight OS for netbooks that pretty…
So, the contracts are signed and returned, and it’s all official. I’m writing a book. Sorry to all of my fans out there who were hoping this would be my first volume of poetry – you’ll all just have to…