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As a qualified educator, and educator of the educators, I am a communications expert; understanding how and why information delivery works and doesn't work. I have experience with technology and consider myself an information-futurist. I am a dreamer!

Now, enough of that wank and onto some more...I have been a teacher of modern English and literature, taught people the skills of learning, teaching and communicating. A can look at big and little pictures and advise on getting from point A to point B. I can read maps!

I am an excellent facilitator, negotiator and have, on many occasions in the past, presented to small and large groups alike. I am a talker!

My experience in commercial enterprise has helped me take a leap from the structure and politic of government back into the real world. I am a thinker!

But I am a teacher; was a teacher of skills and knowledge, and now, like most of us, just a teacher.

Specialties:

Information and communication developer, reviewer and planner, advice on learning, elearning and services online. I see the past and dream the future. I can use smart and dumb tools. A sharer and a listener. A strategist and a dreamer. I can negotiate with people from all walks. I know where I am at and where you want to be. I can read maps!

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Courier: First Details of Microsoft’s Secret Tablet

It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we’ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft’s astonishing take on the tablet.

Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the “late prototype” stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.

via gizmodo.com.au

How rather cool! No doubt there will be those that 'diss' the product because it imitates a book, but hell, its different and kinda cool!

And it would seem the Microsoft backrooms have outdone Apple - with the rumoured for how long now? Apple Tablet. The Courier has some very neat features, and comes as part of the novel concepts Microsoft have been developing, including the Tabletop. Yet to prove itself technically and to the market, this might be an interesting bun-fight between the two monolithic organisations.

I guess, if nothing else, Apple, as they sometimes do, could always take a look at Courier and then start work on the MacTablet! ;)

Read the full story @ www.gizmodo.com.au.

 

Sylvestor
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor

Filed under  //  Apple   Booklet   Computers   Courier   Gizmodo Australia   Microsoft   PC   Tablet   Technology  
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Posted 5 months ago

'Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker' | News | News.com.au

FACEBOOK makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker, a psychologist has said.

The social networking site boosts a part of intelligence that is vital to success in life, while tweeting away may have the opposite effect.

Keeping up to date with Facebook may have the same effect as playing video war games and solving Sudoku, said Dr Tracy Alloway of Scotland's University of Stirling.

It hones the ability to remember information and to use it, known as "working memory".

via news.com.au

So it appears that I am just little bit thicker than a whole lot of other people! Facebook has never really been my thing - heck - I still only have about 5 people connected! As for the multitude of websites, images and quips my few hundred connected twitter-friends often share - I guess it just doesn't add up.

Consider me the dummy my Facebook Smartypants's!

Sylvestor
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor - you can probably find me on facebook too ;)

Filed under  //  Facebook   Intelligence   Memory   News.com.au   Psychology   Social Media   Technology   Tracy Alloway   Twitter  
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Posted 6 months ago

3D the next dimension in home entertainment | News | News.com.au

Sony 3D TV
Third dimension ... Sony's 3D TV prototype at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers conference and exhibition in Sydney / Courier-Mail

BREAK out your TV-watching goggles. The next big thing in home cinema is 3D and it could arrive in a big way next year.

With more and more feature films being made in 3D, Hollywood studios are lobbying to bring the full immersive experience into lounge rooms, and TV manufacturers are striving to meet those demands.

via news.com.au


What are we? Back to the Future of 1955??? 3D is just a tad passe' in my view and until holographivision becomes a reality - really, what is the point of this?

The basic premise of the technology has not changed in 50 years. This is not a good thing. Money should be invested in projected vision entertainment for the home, not just a means of bringing cinema into the home the same way it is delivered in theatres.

Why do our bigshot entertainment and tech houses insist on focussing on reinvention...where is the new stuff? where is the future?? Stop taking us back in time please.

Sylvestor
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor

Filed under  //  3D   movies   Sony   technology   TV  
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Posted 7 months ago

Everything old is new again for internet-weary young adults

By Stephen Lunn

The Australian

July 14, 2009 12:01am

Gen Y
Better connections ... young Australians want more face-to-face time with friends and family / Lindsay Moller
  • Gen Y culture shift
  • Study reveals a "new nostalgia"
  • Young Australians crave less complex times

NEXT thing you know, all the young men will be using Brylcream, the girls will be in bobby sox and everyone will be learning to jitterbug.

A study of young adult culture reveals a "new nostalgia" among Australia's 16-30 year olds, who pine for less complex times, The Australian reports.

Communicating with friends online has lost some of its lustre even from as recently as a year ago and they now want to have more face-to-face time.

And they increasingly prefer to do that at home rather than going out to noisy, potentially dangerous pubs and nightclubs, according to the annual Urban Market Research survey compiled by youth marketing agency Lifelounge.

The survey of more than 1600 young adults finds those still living with their parents (about half) have noticed the global financial crisis's impact on the family and pared back their lifestyle in response.

It also shows their love affair with technology is heading for a break-up, with time spent online down 30 minutes a week from last year, while their consumption of newspapers increased by the same amount.

Facebook and Twitter are also still on the rise, but losing some of their cachet.

via news.com.au


Frankly, what a load of BULL! Is this an attempt by old-school media to try and make people believe that online tech is losing its way for people? If anything, its growing at an even great rate than ever!!! According to my circle of friends and their few degrees of separation.

Lets not confuse adaptation and acceptance of tech as a part of normal everyday life as a "turning away". Give it up old-school-journo's! You are losing a battle that should be seeing you on the front lines.

Get with the times! That includes you Mr Lunn!

Sylvestor (a 38 year old who is still full of tech-lustre!)
www.twitter.com/Sylvestor

Filed under  //  Computers   Facebook   Gen Y   Generation   Internet   Social Networking   Technology   Twitter  
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Posted 8 months ago