Tweet I was chatting to someone at a party on Saturday night about copyright. The gentleman I was chatting with was strongly in favour of strict enforcement of copyright. He was advocating fining people who share copyright material online. It got me thinking. Once you consider the problem in offline terms it seems that many [...]
Entries Tagged as 'internet'
Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
August 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · future, ideas
Tags: business·future·innovation·internet·law
Digital citizens need real world knowledge too
March 15th, 2010 · 8 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet It was fascinating to be at the inaugural Digital Citizens event in Sydney last week – the topic was: Private Parts: Personality and Disclosure – Finding a Balance in the Digital Space. There was a great line up on the panel with visiting US lawyer and social media specialist Adrian Dayton (Social Media for [...]
Tags: future·internet·law·networked society·social networking·twitter·web 2.0
Kindling a Revolution
January 24th, 2010 · 5 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet Just travelled back from Melbourne and sat next to an extremely spry gentleman of 71 years who spent the entire trip reading on his Kindle. He told me how much he loved this new way of reading. That it can hold 1500 books and he only recharges it infrequently, less than once a month. [...]
Tags: innovation·internet·technology
Social media and its implications for education Part 2
December 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments · ideas, speaking
Tweet There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are: (1) the overall landscape in which we are operating; (2) the social implications of the changes being driven by technology and how we are using it; and (3) the changing models that [...]
Tags: collaboration·education·innovation·internet·social computing·social media·social networking
Social computing and its implications for education
December 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · ideas, speaking
Tweet I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed notes will be posted shortly. Social & Learning Implications View more presentations from Kate Carruthers. Tweet
Tags: collaboration·education·innovation·internet·social computing·social media·social networking
Holiday IT to-do lists | Patch Monday via @stilgherrian
December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet The fast-approaching holiday season is a great time to update your IT systems while everything’s quiet. I got to have a chat with Stilgherrian in this week’s Patch Monday. This podcast has some nifty suggestions from Harold Melnick, who’s Microsoft’s senior product marketing manager for Unified communications; Del from open source consultancy Babel Com [...]
Tags: business·internet·management·technology
Future of the Web | The Scoop
November 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · future, ideas
Tweet Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones’ podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a fascinating discussion – so many interesting ideas to consider: What happens when our real and virtual worlds collide? And how will we live in [...]
Tags: future·hyperconnectivity·innovation·internet·people·technology
'Father of the Internet' Lists Flaws in Original Design
November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · future, ideas
Tweet The very smart Vint Cerf sharing some of the things he’d change about the internet (via Fora.tv). Fascinating stuff. Tweet
Tags: future·internet·technology
Online policy madness – Don't link to us!
September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · ideas
Tweet Here’s an excellent example of a legal or marketing department (or both) who don’t seem to get how the internet & search engines work. Further, it shows a real disconnect between the kind of content on the site and the policies supporting the site. Wonder why they bothered putting all that funky interactive content [...]
Gilmore of the eponymous law
April 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet ~ A few times now I’ve referred to Gilmore’s Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the internet, and he is a self described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on the edge than most, but I think [...]
Tags: history·internet·technology
