What Dr Seuss can tell us about New Media

Monday, July 7th, 2008

My favourite story as a child was one of Dr Seuss's stories was The Glunk That Got Thunk. I have been trying and trying to find this and when I noticed a whole swag of Seuss books in the local bookshop, I went on a search to find that ...

MP: The static web page

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Where would we be without the static web page ((This is part of my Mapping Pedagogy project.))? This bastion of forgotten technology is probably one of the best places to start with my project because we seem to have moved on from it and yet not. I see the static ...

Convergence Vs Divergence

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

In the lecture the other day, I mentioned the idea of convergence. We often talk about technology convergence, about how a single device now has many functions. I haven't looked at phones, but I'm pretty sure you can't just buy a mobile phone. One that is just ...

Talking to myself

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Designing a website is like talking to myself.  I seem to do that a lot, but trying to get a consistent theme that utilises the theme from this blog and is carried through the site is quite a challenge for someone who hasn't really done any web editing since the ...

Reading, reading, reading

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

I've spent the weekend reading a report (amongst other things) about Cultural Commons called Unbounded Freedoms. It's a fascinating read, although I will admit, it's the first time I've read a 'whole' document on-screen. There are so many ideas in this. It foreshadows the moves available with ...