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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Document Freedom Day

March 20, 2008 – 9:52 am

Google, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Sydney Linux User’s Group are hosting an event for the first annual Document Freedom day on Wednesday 26th March at the Sydney Google offices. From the document freedom site:
“The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, google, standards, OOXML, document freedom | Comments (1)

Google Sky in your browser

March 16, 2008 – 1:19 pm

Here’s another nice service from Google if for some reason you aren’t able to run Google Earth on your desktop (not in the SOE or something like that) and would like to search and view some of images that ‘Sky in Google Earth’ offers. Google Sky puts all this into your browser. The […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, google | Comments (0)

twenty percent time

March 16, 2008 – 9:37 am

It’s always good to look at successful organisations and try to learn from some of their practices/experience. Some time ago we looked at Google and their ‘20% time’ for engineers. Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their time free to work on what they are really passionate about. As […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, google, innovation | Comments (3)

Great discussion on openDSM and open source

March 14, 2008 – 2:53 pm

A couple of us at education.au have blogged previously on openDSM, our distributed search manager software that was released recently as open source and is housed on Google Code.
If you would like to know more about this software, the problem areas that it addresses and the philosophy behind it and some of the work that […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, open source, openDSM | Comments (0)

iPhone 2.0 - and we’re still waiting for the first one

March 7, 2008 – 12:31 pm

From TechCrunch the news that Apple is making a number of announcements today for the iPhone. Support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync is a big one on its own. I can just imagine the groans from IT/finance departments in organisations around the world (not here in Australia yet as we don’t have the iPhone […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Apple, google | Comments (0)

ASUS Eee PC with XP

March 5, 2008 – 8:33 am

Article from ZDNet Australia - the news that ASUS is to sell it’s Eee PC with Windows XP. The first time I saw one of these it was being used in a seminar to run ‘powerpoint’ style presentations and the presenter gave a really compelling demonstration on just how good low cost hardware bundled with […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau | Comments (5)

IMS exploring use of Creative Commons licensing

March 4, 2008 – 10:11 am

From Stephen Downes’ blog, notification that the IMS Global Learning Consortium is exploring the use of Creative Commons licensing in its interoperability specifications. The press release from IMS doesn’t go into a great deal of detail other than plans to run a pilot project under a form of Creative Commons licence. It will […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, interoperability, standards, IMS GLC, Creative Commons | Comments (0)