by Derek Morrison, 14 July 2011, updated 17 July 2011 I’ve noticed more and more people turning up at various higher education conferences or seminars with iPads rather than the traditional laptop. My interest lay not in the iPad’s obvious attraction as a highly portable media access and consumption device but rather in how it […]
by Derek Morrison, 3 January 2010 N.B. The following online essay represents the views of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my posting Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars? (Auricle, 6 December 2009) I wasn’t convinced that the […]
by Derek Morrison, 8 February 2009 The headline Pop fans click on to stars’ sing’n’sells was enough to make me wince when reading the Sunday newspapers and the story also offered its own share of reflective shudders about how those clever marketing types are ramping up product placement big time. The story was based around […]
Originally posted by: Derek Morrison on Jan 17, 07 | 7:24 am | In my two previous postings I attempted to make some sense of the trend towards patenting software of relevance to learning and teaching. As is now well known, commercial entities are attempting to claim intellectual ownership of apparently prosaic (and certainly now […]
