In my posting Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’ (Auricle, 1 September 2009) I argued that newspapers are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. Their current business model is failing because of the internet but yet a compensatory move online is confounded, so the press barons would argue, due to a […]
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Higher Education Framework published
November 4th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, first posted 4 November 2009 updated 5 & 17 November 2009 N.B. The views expressed in this posting are the product of this author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. Lord Peter Mandelson’s super-ministry the Department for Business Innovation and Skills […]
Technology Impeded Learning (TIL)?
September 29th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2009 There! … Even in the title of this posting I’ve added my six pence (cents) worth to the concerns of those becoming exercised by the unchallenged assumption that “technologies + learning = good thing” In my posting J.G.Ballard on the dangers of “inner space†(Auricle, 27 September 2009) I […]
Why Mendeley?
September 18th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison (first posted 7 September 2009, updated 18 September 2009) With the strapline “Organize, share and discover research papers” Mendeley is clearly pitching its hat into the academic software ring. There is certainly an interesting mix of people behind this enterprise who have obviously decided that there is a business opening not currently […]
They’re coming to take your content away!
August 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
eBook development gets newspapers “out of gaol”?
July 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 July 2009 Does the following represent as possible “get out of gaol” for the newspaper industry? Or is it just an interesting cul de sac? The current generation of ebook readers don’t do visual multimedia, they try to be a two dimensional paper analogue; al la paperback format, e.g. Sony Reader […]
Twitter – who generates the content?
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 18 June 2009 In my 2008 online essay Take me to your thought leader! (Auricle, 28 January 2008) I highlighted work that suggests that despite the egalitarian vision and, arguably, the hype, the opportuntities for user creation offered by the Web 2.0 world appears to be grasped by relatively few accolytes. Download […]
An “Amazing” business model
June 17th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 17 June 2009 While some are wondering if the digital zeitgeist will obliterate their ‘traditional’ business models others are looking at how the they can enhance theirs. One such new kid on the national UK digital radio/ internet radio block is called Amazing Radio which is broadcasting test transmissions at the time […]
Open opportunities, open threats?
April 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 April 2009 N.B. The following online essay represents the personal views of the author and should not be construed as necessarily representative of any other individual or organisation. I would prefer to think that technological developments and experience would have, by this time, made the debate about what Virtual Learning Environment […]
On the video: a reflection on YouTube and friends (part 1)
November 6th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 6 November 2008 In the menu of this blog you will find I’ve created a new link category in Auricle for what I’ve called “YouTubes”. At the moment it contains links to a diverse collection of videos archived on YouTube which have caught my attention because I think they are potentially useful […]
