Software, Methods
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Teams, Technocrats and Technophobes
We all want to use technology to its best advantage. We live in the 21st Century. We’re technocrats. We practically invented the modern world. But there are people out there who are slowing us down. They’re called technophobes. We need to do something. 1. Make them Care Most technophobes have trouble relating to the inflated…
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Pub Quizes…
… are really difficult without Google. [Posted by Ian Yorston, via iPhone.]
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How much ? NHS spends money like water on ICT
According to the Guardian “BT Group will next month become the third major contractor in as many years to take a multimillion pound writedown on its work with the government’s crisis-stricken GDP12.7bn overhaul of the NHS computer system.” This is the most astonishing amount of money. The NHS is pretty much the biggest employer in…
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Ouch: Virtual Learning Environments are Expensive and Ineffective
Wow. According to the BBC, Ofsted have produced a hard-hitting assessment on the costs (high) and benefits (err, very few apparently) of the VLEs that we are all supposed to be purchasing. Some of the quotes: The use of online materials to help students with their lessons has been “slow to take off”. In many…
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From my iPhone
I now have a shiny new 3G iPhone – on the O2 PAYG contract. It really is a very impressive handheld computer. And it runs fully fledged apps for many purposes. Including an excellent blogging tool. But the real strength of the iPhone is the excellent browser, coupled with its excellent connectivity (both WiFi and…
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The Future of ICT
It’s becoming ever more obvious that the future of ICT lies with Web Based Applications. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, etc If you want to keep an eye on the future then you could do a lot worse than to have a look at this list of the best web-based apps of 2008. It is…
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There is no bubble…
…won’t you blog about this song…
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del.icio.us/help/tagometer
Warning: TechStuff… Link: del.icio.us/help/tagometer.
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“I just use Google”: Blogger2.0 launches
It’s probably illegal to advertise another blogging product from within my TypePad account… but here goes. Blogger 2.0 – lots of tools that now make Blogger a good tool rather than a lame one. Makes that “I just use Google” suite of tools look very attractive. Mail, Maps, Earth, Video, Spreadsheets, Docs, Search, Calendar, Photos,…
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Extracting Meaning from Data
Swivel looks to be very, very interesting. It’s basically a Social Networking site that allows you to share data. Think Flickr, but for statistics. And just as Flickr offers serendipitous connections between pictures, so Swivel allows users to derive value from shared data sets. Think Freakanomics but with lots of smart users all looking for…