I WAS GRADING a handful of third level social media exams when Yahoo! sealed the deal to buy Tumblr. My dashboard lit up with dozens of people screaming. Continue reading

WE SPENT MORE than two hours in the Dublin's Children Museum, leaving with two tired kids. That translates to a "win" in many parents' minds. Continue reading

I HATE GETTING out-of-office replies and every summer, the scourge begins anew. There is a better way, suggested by Erik Qualman. Continue reading

AT THE FRIDAY CESI Meet, more people retweeted Joe Dale's app recommendations than any other item. That's telling on several levels. Continue reading

I HAVE A SHORT workshop during the annual ICT in Education Conference in Thurles on 11 May and am sharing one of their audio clips on my blog post. Continue reading

I USE WINDOWS. phone in my job because it has proven itself as a device able to go uncharged for more than a business day while keeping me on schedule. One of its clever scheduling features comes from Live Tiles representing people on my GTD timelines. I've discovered that when I put a Live Tile of a person on the home screen of my Nokia Lumia, I can bring relevant items into the context of meetings. That's because Live Tiles of people incorporate updates from social networks, recent emails, calls and text messages. Other systems do this too but Live Tiles feel more serendipitous than other methods I have used. I'm thinking about making a series of screenshots representing my Weekly Live Tiles of People because there's some good data analysis that might trickle out from that exercise. Sent from Bernie Goldbach's Windows Phone while prepping a creative multimedia lecture. Continue reading

I LIKE READING things on Kindle and on Nook, so word that Microsoft might actually buy Barnes & Noble's Nook business is good news to me. Continue reading

I LOVE HIGH TECH cars as much as I love science fiction so when the two come together, I smile. Continue reading

DON PEPPERS points out a counter-intuitive RAF tactic that the two of us learned at the USAF Academy--you can efficiently pre-empt fatal flaws when you patch up areas that aren't broken. Continue reading

I NEED TO MAKE a series of responsive websites and have started Artisteer tutorials on the strong recommendation of my wife, the best designer I know. Continue reading

ONE OF THE TOP apps for Windows Phone is Evernote. And it doubles as an audio recorder for Audioboo. Continue reading

MAXIMO'S iMETAL headset provides high quality listening and recording results when connected to my Nokia Lumia 820. Continue reading

I RESIST CONTEXTUALISING myself by work and by home. That's actually a big problem I need to solve. Continue reading

LIKE MANY I KNOW, we have gone backwards in our standard of living. I wonder if our children will start at a lower standard of living. Continue reading

I AGREE with Susan Morrell when she shares "hidden gems" in the Sunday Business Post Magazine. Overlooking the Burren at Ballyportry It's a 15th century Gaelic tower overlooking the Burren in County Clare. The six-floor round house can sleep four to eight people. From €1800 for stays of one to three nights. More at http://Irelands-blue-book.ie Giant's Causeway Drum Gate Quirky, self-catering bolthole near Bushmills Distillery. More at http://irishlandmark.com Waterfall Cottage along the river. A spectacular River Room in the Waterfall Cottage with glass doors opening directly on the river goes for €900 a week as described on http://hiddenireland.com Washington sent the cypress Mount Vernon in the rugged Burren is named for the renowned Virginia plantation. The grounds overlook Galway Bay. Rooms go for €95 per person per night. Wicklow Head Lighthouse The 1718 stone tower overlooks the Irish Sea. You need to book a minimum of three nights from €550 a night self catering. More: http://irishlandmark.com Sent from my Windows Phone after reading "Hidden Gems" in the SBP Magazine, May 5, 2013. Continue reading

READING AND LISTENING to stories from relief efforts destined for Syria reminds me of cargo I once carried for missionaries in Africa. But back then, there were no mortars firing a few miles away. Continue reading

I READ PAPER copies of newspapers during the weekends because it helps me see things from the perspective of a layout editor. It's an exercise with information architecture. Continue reading

I TEACH AT THE intersection of analogue and digital. Some of my whiteboard snaps prove the point. Continue reading

I LIKE HAVING a replaceable battery in my phone and that's one reason I opted for a Lumia 820. However, I've discovered that all batteries aren't built the same. Continue reading

I THINK MY WINDOWS laptop has a dodgy internet adapter inside because I'm having headaches with my Three Ireland Mifi internet connection lately. Continue reading

ONE OF THE BEST ways to provide a quality check on an academic curriculum is to get expert industry opinion of it. Today, three creative multimedia students sat with Tapadoo's MD an got a leading edge opinion about their emerging skills as application developers. Continue reading

WHILE SITTING in the back of the 2013 National Enterprise Conference, I realised that Clonmel remains underdeveloped in the realm of online social networking. We need to remedy that deficiency. Continue reading

CCTV image released by FBI on April 18, 2013 of man carrying bulky backpack. I HAVE RUN in several marathons and then collected my changing gear from backpacks I placed near the finish line but now I realise that's going to be more difficult in the years ahead. Boston Scanner Initial investigation by the FBI after a tragic ending to the Boston Marathon reveals two home-made bombs were carried to the finish line by men with backpacks. One cursory look at the profile of the backpacks reveals the contents aren't changing gear. The rectangular profile of the two backpacks have resulted in faster electronic combing of CCTV footage and should provide a few positive matches from Facebook photos as authorities gain access to the images of a three day period on the world's largest trove of sousveillance. Members of the public have offered photos and videos from the grisly finishing area, proving the crowd itself is a living surveillance organism. We have become Homo documentis, says James Poniewozik. [1] And key points of interest like the finishing line of a race automatically become key frames in thousands of videos. So if you plan to blow up a key point of... Continue reading