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Monthly Archives: July 2008

concern over fingerprinting kids in (UK) schools

July 22, 2008 – 2:11 pm

Well its supposed to cut down times in the lunch queues and help remove some bullying along with a few other uses but there is nothing like fingerprinting kids to get people worked up. I looked at biometrics in schools some time ago and here it is again in a video piece from the […]

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

content rating system for Aussie websites

July 18, 2008 – 10:59 am

From the Ars Technica site is the article ‘Australian websites to get ratings for content, age‘. I am not sure what to make of this one. It seems that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has approved a ‘Content Services Code’. The code was developed by the Internet Industry of Australia […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau | Comments (1)

on iPhones, iTouch and lousy business models

July 16, 2008 – 8:41 am

Here’s the obligatory post on the iPhone. At last its here and already there are a few around the office. It seems a few people from work joined the queues on Friday and bought themselves the ultimate in cool gadgets for the masses. Unfortunately I wasn’t one of them but I have […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Apple | Comments (1)

on buying with confidence

July 10, 2008 – 8:38 am

From ZDNet comes the article “Microsoft on Vista - the time of worry is over“. I must say I stopped worrying about Vista a long time ago, in fact I don’t think I ever did worry. I just went out and invested in the most expensive piece of technology I have ever bought […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau | Comments (2)

Interoperability standards for virtual worlds

July 9, 2008 – 8:51 am

Virtual worlds are getting quite a bit of attention at work at the moment and for good reason. Clearly there is a huge potential for their use in education and momentum in this area is really building. Like many I have experimented a bit with platforms like Second Life but am now wanting […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Second Life, interoperability, standards, Virtual Worlds | Comments (0)

followup on 20% time

July 9, 2008 – 8:06 am

A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far.
Cheers.

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

the Panopticon gets that little bit closer

July 8, 2008 – 12:35 pm

Telstra’s Whereis Everyone service is bound to raise a few eyebrows. It’s great if you want to locate a few friends and they are happy for you to be able to locate where they are at anytime but….. what about any privacy concerns? Are you happy to be located anywhere anytime? The […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, privacy | Comments (2)