About the impact of technology on society http://connected.org/connected-magazine.xml Thoughts about the impact of the new Safari reader in terms of the perceived value of content... 3 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/ideas/Safari5.html http://www.connected.org/ideas/Safari5.html Learning in our Western minds is inextricably bound with memories and ideas from an institution called school. School is a building where learning takes place. Lots of learning. Only learning. Well, not exactly. Other activities creep in. Meeting your first girl friend. Fighting during the recreation period... 24 Apr 2010 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/learn/Learning-moments.html http://www.connected.org/learn/Learning-moments.html In this article we’ll look at the highly successful Apple App Store from this perspective and see if that gives new ideas for the future. Then I’ll describe my practice related to references to books and articles as an illustration of the idea of combining Apps... 16 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/learn/Apps-for-that.html http://www.connected.org/learn/Apps-for-that.html inkedin are proud to announce that members of Linkedin can now post directly to Twitter and vice versa. How silly of them! My first reaction was to find out how to turn off all the Twitter postings in my Linkedin RSS alerts. I haven't yet found out how to do it... 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/ideas/Linkedin-Twitter.html http://www.connected.org/ideas/Linkedin-Twitter.html The following diagram is a schematic representation of the current state of my P(L)E for tagging and sharing links talked about in the article entitled: The sharing of links online. Below I have added a number of thoughts about this schema and what it implies... 23 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/learn/PLEs-diagram.html http://www.connected.org/learn/PLEs-diagram.html With the increasing availability of a wide-range of cheap or free, easy-to-use, modular apps and services to assist all manner of activities and a parallel trend in which people pick and chose the elements of their own online working (and/or playing) environment rather than submitting to closed, monolithic solutions that seek to cater for all needs in one offer, users intuitively develop experience in combining these ‘apps’ according to the circumstances and in integrating the use of those in their ways of working… 20 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/learn/configurations.html http://www.connected.org/learn/configurations.html Roger Federer currently has almost two million fans on Facebook. That means that that number of people have signed up as a fan (all you have to do is click a button to become a fan) and in return get text updates and videos from the legendary Swiss tennis man direct on their own home page. It is direct, it is instantaneous and it reaches straight into you own home space and people want it to be there. What more could a public relations person ask for? … 19 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/ideas/Fan.html http://www.connected.org/ideas/Fan.html Despite all the vociferating of some journalists who have vested interests and/or preconceived ideas, the new iPhone 3GS is clearly an object to be desired by many people, just like the iPod (Touch) was and still is. Making it so is one of the key skills of Apple. However, existing iPhone users have realised that upgrading from the earlier 3G model is not so easy on their wallet as they believed. A considerable amount of irritation and a strong feeling of injustice have ensued. Let’s investigate how and why… 10 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.connected.org/ideas/iPhone-desire.html http://www.connected.org/ideas/iPhone-desire.html