The corridor of uncertainty

We often claim that using the net more will cut our carbon footprint. More e-meetings mean fewer flights and car journeys. There's no do...

This year's Horizon Report has just appeared and is, as usual, full of interesting predictions and observations. Many of the hot techno...

Today I discovered a stunning new service for the iPhone - iGirl!! Definitely not quite politically correct but evidently popular, this new ...

Like most people I've got an impressive and ever more bewildering collection of user names and passwords to all the different web servic...

If the good old lecture format is under fire (see previous entry) then maybe it's also time to examine what we do at conferences. I enjo...

Remember all those big lectures you attended as a student? Up to 250 students packed into a big hall listening to a professor lecturing for ...

Do you tend to read great books but can't find anyone to discuss them with? I've found an interesting social network service that so...

I can warmly recommend a blog by an Australian researcher called Mark Pesce called The Human Network (What happens after we're all con...

At the conference last week there was a session about how we should meet the demands of generation Y in terms of using the latest net-based ...

Libraries around the world are doing their own 2.0 upgrade, using blogs to tell about new publications and services, allowing customers to r...

I’ve spent an interesting 3 days in London at this annual conference on information management - see more on conference website . My own con...

I read an article in the latest Newsweek about Barack Obama as the first online president. His campaign was very web-oriented and he has, se...

Course evaluation is an integral part of a university's quality control process but it is also extremely difficult to get quality inform...

Just spent an interesting few days in Minsk, Belarus as part of an exchange program with the Belarusian State University. I love visiting ne...

I've just read about a university here in Sweden that has banned students from filming lectures and publishing them on the net without t...