I had a difficult time finding a review of I (Heart) Huckabees that I agreed with. In the end I opted for this review , which sums up many of my thoughts about the film, though it perhaps is a bit more glowing about it than I would be. This is mainly because I thought […]

These are the VERY rough notes I took at Dave Snowden’s talk last Friday. I’m putting them here more for my record than as someting that may interest other people. When I get a bit of time soon I’ll write some more detailed reflections on what Snowden said. Overall I was surprisingly impressed with Snowden, […]

The Melbourne media seems to be taking an interest in a few philosopher friends of mine…
Rob Sparrow has been quoted in today’s Age Green Guide, in an article on how technology bites back (it was also in the SMH last week). What Rob says here may be of some relevance to those of us in […]

From tvguide.com, this review is by Maitland McDonagh:
METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER
Dir: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2004
Our rating: 3.5/5

In other news, it seems that I will be attending a Dave Snowden seminar after all, this Friday. The seminar is part of the ‘Transforming Learning through ICT’ series, and is titled Develop a Competitive Edge in Learning. The cost is only A$120, which is far more reasonable than his earlier workshop that I did […]

I haven’t blogged for a week, mainly because I stupidly decided to clean the dust out of my home pc and managed to break my CPU in the process. Since they don’t make compatible cpus for my motherboard anymore I had to replace the whole thing, costing me some dollars and a whole lot of […]

From BBC film reviews:

Dead End (2003)Reviewed by Neil Smith
Reviewer’s Rating 3 out of 5 / User Rating 5 out of 5
15: Contains strong language, gory horror and moderate sex
Updated 11 December 2003

Courtesy of Bleeding Edge, it is definitely worth keeping up with the ever growing number of excellent google features.
The Book Search feature looks like it could become an invaluable research tool, and the Movies feature looks like it will be particularly useful for my future plagiarised film reviews.

Another (plagiarised) film review:
Sur mes lèvres (Read My Lips) (2001)

Today we looked at ‘A Practical Guide to Social Networks’ By: Cross, Rob; Liedtka, Jeanne; Weiss, Leigh. Harvard Business Review, Mar2005, Vol. 83 Issue 3.
This paper describes three types of social networks:

Customized Response
Modular Response
Routine Response
The paper then goes on to describe real life examples of organisations that contain and exploit the three types of networks.
In […]