Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Absence, Priorities, Focus and Reflection

Some of you will have noticed that my presence online, both here and on Twitter, has been significantly sporadic since September last year. This extended absence (for want of a better word) has been a choice. One that was predicated by my need to prioritise specific jobs, projects and interests over others. While I will [...]

Google+: A Space In-Between

Thin Blue Line

What Google+ is and will become, remains largely speculative. There’s a lot of missing features and functions that need to be addressed. And for some of us, there are a number of arising questions, such as: What does it mean to add another stream of information to my busy life? In it’s early iteration though, I am enjoying [...]

Why this Apple fanboy loves his Android phone

Android Phone

Some of you will know that I am quite the Apple fanboy. I currently own a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro (my second one) and an iPod touch. Having blogged twice about the apps I have installed on the iPod (during the early days of this blog), I felt it was time to confess to the [...]

Twitter for Mac: Separate Windows, Separate Streams

T4M Separate Windows

[Cross-posted from my Posterous blog] This is my preferred way of using Twitter for Mac. Firstly, click on the stream you wish to view, e.g.: @replies, a list you have created or a hashtag you wish to follow. Then click Shift+Cmd+T and it will open that stream in a separate window. Do this for each [...]

Learning Taxonomies: Why ‘creating’ is a cognitive skill

This post is a response to Doug Belshaw’s post: Learning Taxonomies: Why ‘creating’ is not a cognitive skill. While I do agree that ‘creating’ does not belong above evaluation and that there is room for some revsion of Bloom’s Taxonomy, I do believe that ‘creating’ is a cognitive skill. In fact, I believe that it [...]


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