Monthly Archives: September 2005

First Podcast

I just created my first podcast (for work) which includes a presentation I did on blogging technology. Check it out, and subscribe to hear future sessions (which I’m involved in, but not presenting). e-Pedagogy session homepage Click on Blogs: Uses in an Educational Setting for info on the session I presented at. See the e-Pedagogy

Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Emails ‘pose threat to IQ’

Turns out all that business about IM and e-mail distractions lowering your IQ wasn’t quite right after all. Might be true, since I remembered blogging about it in the first place. (it looks like Blogger’s “Blog This” doesn’t include the link in Safari…sorry it’s gone)

Google’s vision of the net

Here’s a good read about the increasingly important role of Google on the Internet (oh, the irony of where I’m posting this). Among the things potentially in the future of Google are a variety of Internet-based applications which would allow a user to free himself from his desktop, or to essentially use “his computer” at

The Media and Katrina (as told by the BBC)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm If nothing else, this tragedy has highlighted the importance of the news medias’ watchdog role: to be critical of the government, no matter who is in power or how tragic the times may be.