Insights

Life on Mars

Quote from last week’s brilliant BBC 1 drama Life on Mars : Ray: "What’s he like?" Sam: "He seems very professional." Ray: "Bastard! That’s all we need."  and later Annie to Sam: "If you haven’t got trust what has anyone to believe in?" Sam: "You’ve got to start from what you know." 
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Interoperability is the Word!

I was reading a white paper from Sum Total on LMSs and came across this little gem:  "Philosophically, we recognize that the learning platform is rarely the center of our customers’ computing universe." Philosophically we should also recognise that learning is rarely the centre of many companies’ universes. Repeat that mantra everyday.  It is a
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Blogging and Communication

The serious spat between Chris Lock andKathy Sierra seems to have left them with a better understanding of each other.  You can read their joint statements here. But it has been a painful process and got to the heart of what we mean, what we say, and how we say it. Apart from the obnoxious,
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Convergence

Three linked events over the last couple of weeks.  First my daughter Sophie returned safely after a year’s back packing round the world.  She went on the well worn trail to Australia new Zealand via lots of other Asian countries. Second was the 50th anniversary of the EU, celebrated in style in Berlin but few
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What Annoys Me!

I was asked bythe Energy Hub to list the things that annoy me in corporate life.  Here are a few that sprung readily to mind! Phony claims that ‘people are our greatest asset’ just before making them redundant Massive blockages in the uptake and usage of technology because IT people want to control everything and
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What Do I Do to Keep Fit Meme

Donald Taylor tagged me and I am going to talk four other unsuspecting souls into  telling the world what they do to keep fit. I do five different things things: the first is run: you can see the blog entry about this; four time a week usually but never less than three times over the
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Are You a Ninger?

Good old Jay Cross and his wonderful internet time blog.   He has come across Ning! as a social networking forum and set up his own group.   I agree with him that Ning is less fiddly than Google Groups and more welcoming but there were the usual set up hassles that are totally unnesessary. For
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One Minute TV

Today’s Independent Media Supplement has a lead article on YouTube and  Al Gore’s Current TV.  Will the advent of bite-sized programmes lead to the decline of longer, more thoughtful and complex programming? The article answers its own question:  ‘no’ in a nutshell!  It is exactly the same as bite-size learning. The fact that we can
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Precisely!

OcadoOcado is the most wonderful on line supermarket service.  It beats the others (and I have tried 3) hands down for quality of service and quality of food. You might be interested to learn that the name of Ocado’s Finance Director is Richard Exact. Precisely.
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Desert Island Discs

Andy Kershaw on Desert Island Discs. Every song deeply familar but each one with a new angle and a new insight. He is one of the few people I have met with no front. He is on the radio as he is in person: enthusiastic, principled and wide-eyed about the world. I bet he is
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