The following is an abstract for the ERCM Conference next year. I need to put this in my blog so I can link to it in my electronic application, and therefore retain the formatting – yeiks!
(Secret and password protected) Diary of a Web 2.0 Novice – A Subtextual Phenomenon.
Web 2.0 social media tools, such as [...]
22nd December, 2008.
Philosophers such as Whitehead have argued that life is a process. Nothing stands still – except sometimes in my mind when I recall, not the event, but a memory of it. Like some drag-queen parody, a distorted reality, that changes its disguise to suit my fancy. This is my subjective experience.
But sometimes [...]
We place a lot of importance on what others think. We win degrees, awards and self-esteem through the opinions (or whims, or prejudices) of our esteemed judges. But how do they know?
In an early blog, David Jones http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/page/4/ referred to an article by Cronholm and Goldkuhl about strategies for information systems evaluation. They have conveniently created [...]
I would just like to mention that I bought a hat last week, from one of those trendy surf shops, that I would never normally go in to. The hat was handed to me in a colourful bag, branded with Billabong’s slogan:
“Be who you want to be.”
Was it that marketing innovation that somehow, subliminally caused me [...]
Huh? This can’t be right?:
http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/accept-the-fact-that-we-have-to-treat-almost-anybody-as-a-volunteer-implications-for-learning-and-teaching/
David Jones has quoted Peter Ducker:
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Presumably, in order to accept this fact, we need to understand what the heck Ducker is talking about. And who accounts for the “almost”? Who’s the unpaid slave? The longer I luxuriate in [...]
