Tweetie and the iPhone

This interview conducted on 25 April, 2009 between Aulia Masna, executive editor of Macworld Indonesia, and Loren Brichter (author of Tweetie) focuses on the recent release of iPhone version of Tweetie and how the application came to be.  It also focuses on the what was the thought process behind its design and questions the reasons for the [...]

Social Psychology of Adult Learning

Although particularly lengthy, I found this paper by Shirley Saunders particularly interesting to read.  The connections between how adults learn, the environment where that learning takes place, the types of interaction involved and what is learnt will affect how learning is viewed and what amount of that learning is retained.  This paper discusses various theories [...]

Mandatory Internet Filters

With the increasing amount of access to the internet including online discussion groups, eg online communities, chat rooms, discussion groups, etc. there is now concern about how much easier it could be to gain access to pornography or other ‘dangerous’ sites for all internet users.  The Federal government has plans to introduce mandatory internet filters [...]

When is a password not a password

With the advent of the ‘online’ environment, there seems to be a constant question following me lately and that is ‘which password have I set up to get access to this?’  Aside from internet access to banking, wireless broadband, uni, work access (at work and from home), MBF, Share portfolio, etc, in the last month [...]