It’s been a week or so since I purchased the new camera. Last weekend I had to buy Aperture 2 for my Mac so I could easily pull the raw photos off the camera. Have been fairly happy with that purchase and the photos have flowed. I’ve only put 10 to 20 of them onto
Month: November 2008
Indications of limitations – blog based discussions
I’m trying to run an experiment in blog-based discussions. Trying to understand, from experience, the realities of using individual blogs for a multi-person discussion. It’s not going well. The first problem was that WordPress’ pingbacks not always working – as briefly mentioned in this post. The next problem is that links from an external blog
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More on blogs and discussion
In some previous posts (the original post and the followup post) I’ve been playing around using blogs for multiple discussion forums. As yet, no-one else has joined in :(. Which is not surprising, to some extent, given at least one of the bits of my experiment in the followup post did not work. This post
Some resources for around blogs and discussion forums
In a previous blog post I tried/am trying to kick off an experiment in using a blog for a multi-person discussion as an attempt to answer a question we will have to address as part of the PLEs@CQUni project. I’m hoping this is a party to which a few others will come. This post is
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An experiment in blog-based discussions
One of the major tools used (and mis-used) in most university-based e-learning is the discussion forum, or mailing list, or some other form of software for managing/creating multi-person dialogue. The PLEs@CQUni project is attempting to figure out and experiment with social media tools as a way to improve existing practice. An obvious need is to
Information Systems Epistemology: An Historical Perspective
Information Systems Epistemology: An Historical Perspective This is a summary, review, attempt to understand, and pick tidbits from the following book chapter Hirschheim, R. A. (1992). Information Systems Epistemology: An Historical Perspective. In R. Galliers (Ed.), Information Systems Research: Issues, Methods and Practical Guidelines (pp. 28-60). London: Blackweel Scientific Publications. It’s an attempt to start
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First photo
Memory card (SanDisk eXtreme 3 8Gb) and bag (Tamrac expedition 5x) have been successfully purchased and returned home. The camera is finally together and the first shot has been taken. And yes, the image files are significantly larger than those produced by the C-770. Seems there will be some reading to do. Both for simple
Kant – separation of reason and experience
I’m slowly working through some PhD related work (the post on the paper I’m reading will come out later today) and that brought me across the following description of an argument of Kant’s from the wikipedia page on Kant Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions,
Starting a new journey and hobby – photography
Bit the bullet yesterday and upgraded to a DSLR. The Olympus C-770 we’ve had for almost four years seems a bit the worse for wear after Zach and Zeke dropped it while battling for control. Plus there’s the size issues, 4MP is not cutting it anymore. The C-770 has some nostalgia value. It was purchased
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More on the expert designer – efficiency and effectiveness
A previous post has gotten a comment which I want to follow up on. The interface for writing a post gives more opportunity to be creative than that provided to add comments. A clarification of the intent Due to a few factors my intent may not have been clear. So one more attempt at clarity.
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