Tag: Brain Dump

  • Are eBooks the best way to replace physical texts?

    The Govenator is saying that California is going to do away with physical textbooks, but is this really going to be a good thing? There certainly is a lot of reasons on the surface that one might assume allow this manner of transition to make sense, but those quickly fall away if you think about…

  • Waving farewell to silos – or are we?

    Google’s Wave is supposed to be the answer to “what would email look like if it were invented today”, but the more I hear and read about it, I think that it might be more “what would interactions on the web be like if they were all invented today”? With the understanding that the ideas…

  • Support the workflow

    A brain dump thinking about how LMSs should be support. Rather than looking at the software, staff and systems to add more to fill the holes that are identified by a review. Perhaps it would make more sense to look at the work flow and see how it needs to be modified or supported. I…

  • Logins and Media Centers

    Just some quick thoughts that started at the start of the day and dumped to the screen at the end. In the office we have been talking about media centers quite a bit – how to create them, what hardware/software and whatever else. But when we came to comparing the different media centers – Windows…

  • My Digital Home Evolves

    Back in Oct/Nov I wrote a post on why I didn’t go with the PS3 as a BD player – citing it as overkill for the immediate needs of my home and noting that moving to a digital only format didn’t fit. I think part of the lack of fit was a result of a…