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Just back from the Blogtalk Downunder conference that was held here in Sydney over the past few days. The conference was organised by the education department from the University of Technology Sydney, and the attendees were largely academics and teachers. There were a few industry people there, notably Trevor Cook
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In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of
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Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough level
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Am reading a new book by a first time fiction author, it is called "Z" by Jonar Nader and it has some really interesting ideas. He has written some other good non fiction stuff previously . Check out his website for more info http://www.logictivity.com/
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In my web travels I came across a monastery with monks that train and raise dogs. On their website they articulate some of joy and wisdom of having a close relationship with a non-human companion. This really resonated with me as I have learned to be more calm, patient
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Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard's Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it's a blog) and also to Collected Reactions from Participants Aggregated Feeds of
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As always Belinda from journoz: Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists provides some good resources, this one is worth a look ... EDUCAUSE) has a whole new e-book, called Educating the Net Generation, that you can download about how Net Gen people think and learn. It's
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What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry. Why
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There is a an interesting take on US politics on a site (of the Democratic persuasion one might imagine ;) It seems the Democrats are so busy being cross that they cannot focus on getting some policies that sufficient Americans will vote for (much like our own Labor Party here in
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This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia's *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the 'old fashioned' philosophers (called "Trad & Mod Philosophy", i.e. the logicians), and the 'modern' philosophers (called
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Someone recently quoted Winston Churchill as saying "If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain." So decided to check the 'trusty'
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I have been reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and other writings (ISBN: 0140390529) and his writings do stand well the test of time, as well as being quite entertaining to read. Towards the end of this book, amongst his miscellaneous writings, is an interesting one from a letter to