Longsight is a company that provides support for the deployment and use of open source tools and applications in higher education. This strikes me as a much more sensible model for a business, and for education, than some of the existing traditional models. Why?
1. Open source has a community of distributed users and expertise which [...]

An issue of Fibreculture Journal that I have edited has finally seen the light of day. It is themed “New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies“. It has been delayed, purely because of my tardiness, but now that it is together it is looking good.

In the morning I’m making a very short presentation to some staff from another part of the university about new technologies and education. I don’t have very long, and I have a habit of giving way too much information so instead I will just use blogs and discuss how we use them in teaching and [...]

A more detailed video covering Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs:

All of the complicated work that needs to be done now to geocode (or geotag) photographs could be a thing of the past if founder of SiRF chip company Kanwar Chadha is right. According to Stephen Shankland, blogging on Underexposed at c|net News.com, Chadha is predicting cameras with GPS capability will start hitting the market next year in quantity. Shankland's article covers a range of issues with knowing where photos were taken, particularly if the photos are shared through social networking sites like MySpace, Flickr and SmugMug. While there are privacy and personal security issues with sharing any information about yourself, family and friends, if managed properly adding location data is an opportunity to explore user-generated photographs in new ways.