Disruptive Change and Everything

All professions are undergoing massive change due to the disruptive digital revolution. The librarians are not only studying the revolution in detail they are doing something positive about it and are not afraid of pulling their punches in telling us so. See Kathryn Greenhill’s post about the National and State Libraries Australasia discussion paper with [...]

CodeCampOz 2008 Report

I attended an expanded CodeCampOz at CSU Wagga Wagga campus during 25-27 April 2008. There were extra sessions on the Friday afternoon this year with plenty of new .NET technologies to catch up with. What is so valuable about CodeCampOz is that the speakers are practising software development professionals from around Australia. We had a [...]

Real-world Online Application Experiments

Wow, is Microsoft actually doing something cool? Is this another influence of Ray Ozzie? Mary Jo Foley tells us about the new Microsoft ExP system for conducting scientific online design experiments.
We have an unprecedented opportunity to run A/B tests with online
users and innovate more quickly based on actual user response. Microsoft
needs to shift the [...]

Tracking the InfoWOE Project

InfoWOE Post Collection
After mapping the action items of InfoWOE the next step is to define tasks, the domain of project management applications. For the Eee PC-as-Internet-device these need to be online and as simple as possible.
I have been a fan of the Ruby on Rails guys at 37signals for a number of years. They produce [...]

Mapping the Information Work Online Experiment

InfoWOE Post Collection
In common with many people I reach for a mind map to assemble concepts and components into a cohesive structure. For InfoWOE this must be online despite my being a keen MindManager user for several years, at significant personal expense. A quick web search for free online mindmappers yielded mind42.com where I commenced [...]

AusWeb 2008 Report

In 2008 AusWeb reverted to a smaller, more intimate, conference at Ballina, the place where the original AusWeb 1995 was born. Around 80 delegates gathered to discuss the theme ‘Reflecting on the Past: Anticipating the Future’.
The keynotes were varied and interesting as usual. Shirley Alexander, who spoke about e-learning at AusWeb 1995, is now [...]

Now Staff Get To Buy Office Ultimate 2007 at Low Cost

David Baker just alerted me to the ability of faculty and staff at Bond to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $75 or less. Ultimate includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Groove, InfoPath and Outlook. The deal mirrors the one made available to all students. See http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au to buy online until 15 May 2008.

Project Overview - Information Work Online Experiment

InfoWOE Post Collection
With the Information Work Online Experiment project I hope to determine whether I can work productively with an unmodified inexpensive device like an ASUS Eee PC acting as a thin client over an Internet connection. This will very much be in the spirit of the Google Docs’ team blog entry about moving from [...]