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Archive for May, 2007

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Goodbye, Berno

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Today was Bernard Oh's last day at Microsoft. Berno has a special place in my first 4 months at Microsoft as he guided me through lots of the "stuff".

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Towel Day Participation

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Stopped off at Starbucks on the way to our internal meeting with Steve Ballmer. Frank Arrigo turned up and we had a good chat about life, universe and everything.  The towel helped.

Then with my special green party bracelet, we all waited for Steve to come on stage. Just in case I was abducted by aliens, [...]

Frank Arrigo in Wikipedia

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Frank Arrigo has a Wikipedia entry. He's famous!

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Towel Day. For Douglas Adams

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

May25th is Towel Day. A tribute to the great Douglas Adams. Or maybe just the joy that towels bring us.
Pictures from 2005 are here, and in 2006 someone panic'd and forgot to promote the 25th of May. Or the 25th of May didn't exist last year. Ah, no. Just moved the images to Flickr: towelday
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Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At the Hill and Knowlton "Surviving and thriving in the next decade - Technology Publishing" Breakfast Bytes this morning, a group of eminent panelists in picture above, from the left:

James Tuckerman – Publishing Editor, AntHill. New relatively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online projects later in 2007.
Heather [...]

URLs for Victorian Principal’s Conference

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Wikipedia.org. Ensure your school is in Wikipedia. Understand the social aspects of Wikis, and the rules related to Wikipedia entries.
Microsoft Breathe Life. Microsoft Australia's starting point for Education.
linkedin.com. Professional Social Networking. Start here.
Live.com search (Advanced search features) Use the Advanced features of search to ego-surf.
flickr.com. Social sharing of photos with folksonomy tagging
del.icio.us Search blogs, user-created tags [...]

The Geek Stories, Sharepoint Conference

Monday, May 21st, 2007

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Microsoft PopFly is Social Programming

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Microsoft PopFly is going to seriously impede my ability to do real work at Microsoft.  Oh, that's right, I get paid to demo this stuff! 
PopFly is social programming, without the programming. Publish your 'flys and have them rated; have other's outputs for your inputs. Web sites could create their own Blocks to publish in [...]

Peter Sinclair on The New Inventors

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

My old friend, Peter Sinclair is on ABC's The New Inventors tonight. Hope he wins!

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Education Feed: What I am Watching

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

This is a public feed of what I am watching in the Education Technology space.

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