This Blog Is On Holiday

On the off chance that there are regular readers out there, (and if they are wondering about the lack of posting here), I need to let you all know that Ms Vicki and I are on a five week trip in the UK. If you’re interested you can catch up with the trip on Vicki [...]

Self Serving Self Promotion?

Apologies in advance for the content of this post as I usually try to avoid what my mother used to call “blowing my own trumpet” however this time I hope you will permit me a little indulgence. Somewhere around this time 12 months ago a little book that a colleague and I had laboured long [...]

25 Tools From Jane Hart

One of the really invigorating yet often paradoxically annoying aspects of the current state of play in regard to Web 2.0 is the seemingly endless proliferation of tools that are becoming available. As noted in a previous post, some of these spaces are also disappearing  as with FURL and latterly Flowgram.
Whilst it’s not too difficult [...]

My Diigo Links 06/14/2009

4 Stages of Learning Twitter – come on in, the water’s warm!
This post from Lynda Morceaux is a nice commonsense run down of how to find your way into the Twitterverse. Organised under four stages, Lynda offers suggestions on how to maximise your involvement with each one. Thanks to @murcha for tweeting this link.
tags: twitter, [...]

My Diigo Links 06/13/2009

Stupeflix – Video creation made easy
Stupeflix is another one of those online apps/spaces that enable you to create slideshows using images from online or your camera to which you can add a soundtrack. The big difference with this one is that you can actually download the “movie” to your own computer either as an mp4 [...]

Presenting Colleagues

Things have been a bit quiet of late as far as posts go but that is because I have been just a tad distracted. It seems that sometimes things come in waves and so it was that over the last month or so I have been involved in a couple of conferences which of course [...]

My Diigo Links 06/02/2009

Amphibian Research Center

The Amphibian Research Centre site is the web presence of the centre dedicated to research and conservation of Australia’s unique frogs. They provide a range of services from the site including

Tadpoles in schools kits
A Field Guide to Frog Groups of Australia
Frogs of Australia: A Regional Guide to Frogs of Australia
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