Top Ten Disruptive Technologies According to Gartner

David Cearley, a Gartner VP, has been speaking in Melbourne on the above topic. As reported in a post by eHomeUpgrade the top ten technologies are:

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics [...]

Yet More Productivity Tips That Might Just Work

Tips on how to get things done and save time at work are thick on the ground. A seemingly anonymous Lifehacker blog post caught my imagination for once since I could actually see myself implementing most of the 10 tips. My summary is:

In extremis do a brain dump; leave your workstation and with pen/paper or [...]

Accurate stats not saving time yet

For the last couple of weeks I have been running RescueTime on my home desktop. This free app is still in beta and by default monitors the software being used every 5 seconds and reports the results back to RescueTime every 30 seconds. When you connect to your own RescueTime dashboard on the web you [...]

Married to your Laptop

I thought Merlin Mann’s post on ‘Laptops: A Blessing or a Curse?‘ began to make me uncomfortable. He says he is dangerously married to his laptop and he spends twice as much time looking at its LCD screen than ‘high-definition reality’.
In a later comment he makes the observation that ‘if I take the laptop with [...]

Tech-Ed Day Three Maintains the Standard

The sessions I attended on the shortened day 3 were all heavily web-based, I started with a session from Shane Morris about the new web standards-compliant publisher package, Expression Web, that replaces FrontPage. This session demonstrated the standards support, very intelligent support for CSS and dynamic web templates that are also Dreamweaver-compliant.
The next two sessions [...]

Continuous Partial Attention

The recent post by Alex Iskold of Read/Write Web on continuous partial attention again raises the apparently very different approach to task completion of the younger generations. Alex summarises it well:

He goes on to suggest we need specialised software tools to support the iterative mode as it consumes more time and effort having to [...]

Can a Blog be a Journal?

I have just started reading Creative Journal Writing by Stephanie Dowrick. The book gives inspiration and hints on keeping a personal journal in the old style by handwriting on paper in a suitable journal book. With the plethora of examples, writing exercises and plenty of motivation I am very tempted to start a personal journal.

However [...]

Listening to Podcasts: a whole new mode of learning?

Subconsciously I have known for several months that my listening to selected technology and general interest podcasts on my iPod was teaching me something. I probably average about 60-90 minutes listening a day, mainly while driving and riding my bike. In whole or in part I must get through about 25 podcasts a week.
Today I [...]

Your Company Online Infrastructure for $10/Year

On recent podcasts and blogs there have been comments on how to exploit Google’s Apps for Your Domain to run a small company. I paid my USD 10 for the micree.com domain. This gives me a templated web site using Google pages at www.micree.com, and a series of company-customised productivity apps such as company email [...]

Gold Coast BookCrossers

Yesterday I attended the inaugural meeting of the Gold Coast BookCrossers at Kurrawa SLSC. We swapped a few dozen books and wild released in and around the club the dozen or so books left over. A winged bookcrosser from Brisbane, MadamMuck, even attended and filled us in about the Brisbane bookcrossers meetings and the noble [...]