There are a lot of really smart people in my network, so I’m hoping someone might have some thoughts on avenues I might explore, tests I might run or potential root causes for an issue I’ve been having for about 4 weeks that I’ve been unable to resolve.
Symptoms
The issue surrounds the browsing and loading of websites and as such is fundamentally impacting my ability to work online at the moment.  The symptoms occur quite frequently and are highly consistent in nature. When you attempt to load a web page one …

Following my last post on trends in blog usage I had an idea for a research project that I want to explore at some point.  This post will briefly try to flesh out the underlying idea and questions to address so I can come back to them later.  Expect many changes to this post as I continue to think through the idea.
Increasingly members of the mainstream media (MSM hereafter for short), and newspapers in particular, have leveled criticisms against the social media culture regarding the notion that the sources of …

Several different discussions on the nature of digital identity have emerged recently that have brought me to question my previous views – in particular how representative our digital identities really are of the true reality. This post was an exploration for me during which I worked through these ideas. I ultimately decided to start with what I knew, and work through the logic before re-evaluating everything. In plain English that means this post takes ages to get to the point.
The inspirations for this post

Jenny Mackness raised the …

The title of this post originates from a phrase my grandfather used to say.  In other words, think before you speak – or on the Internet, before you type.
As I’ve said before, I am very interested in observing how new media is used across education – especially amidst the local UNSW population.  Twitter in particular is being increasingly adopted by both staff and students alike, and we are now beginning to see some wonderful networks evolve and grow.
So in order to track what’s being discussed I have subscribed to the …

There are a few different courses at UNSW which are currently exploring the notions of network literacy and online interaction, and I’ve been following them with tremendous interest. Not the least of which relating to the use of student blogs, Twitter, and I would imagine eventually other new media tools as well. As a researcher I unfortunately don’t have many opportunities in practice to test my theories on new media as a facilitator of learner empowerment. So the activity that’s starting to swell across Twitter and the …