Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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So I’m waiting for my hosting provider to turn on a few things so I can install Movable Type how i want it and I start thinking about how nice it would be to have all the blogs I read on a single web page with their latest headlines. So I’m thinking RSS/XML aggregation but…
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I discovered this the other day. The Internet Archive is “building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” What is does provide is access to music and video material that has been placed…
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I use Endnote to handle all my thesis references and bibliographic data – in fact I’m note sure how I’d live without it as an academic writer. But it does cost a reasonable amount (unless you’re covered by a site licence like at a university where it’s normally available for students and staff for a…
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Steve Taylor (e~mergent kiwi: traffic) and Maggi Dawn (which one’s Evil: power point or church? ) have been commenting on the use of PowerPoint on their blogs (esp. within church). It’s a medium that I both love and hate – it never quite does what I want it to, I always end up with both…
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A new survey of Internet users proves we bloggers do have a life after all. Instead, the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much as five hours per…
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For all you dedicated (obsessive?) bloggers out there. Available at: ThinkGeek :: I’m blogging this.
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It’s been a week or two of finishing off books that have been sitting on the bookshelf in my office. One of the latest was Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman. An Amazon review notes that: Close to the Machine explores a world in which ‘the real world and its…
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Just when I though I’d gotten over my coveting of my neighbour’s iPod : Apple – iPod – iPod mini
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Looks like it will be closer to a couple of weeks before everything is up and running smoothly. I’ve got the prototype running sweetly under Mac OS X and Apache on my iBook but my hosting provider won’t have a facility I need for my requirements for another couple of weeks. So I’ll be playing…
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I’ve been flicking through Ben Shneiderman’s book Leonardo’s Laptop today and saw he’d written a section on e-learning in which he proposes a model for classroom and distance education. COLLECT Gather information and acquired resources RELATE Work in collaborative teams CREATE Develop ambitious projects DONATE Produce results that are meaningful to someone outside the classroom…