Michael Rees
Michael Rees
Mijare Consulting
I am an IT academic interested in Web 2.0 application development and use, social media tools for organisations and individuals, virtualisation and cloud computing applications.
IT Trends in the Enterprise
Thanks to TechRepublic who bring us a useful summary of the current Garner thinking on trends in technology having a significant impact on the...
ScoopIt as a Curation Tool
Several of my Twitter follows started using ScoopIt as a curation tool for web pages and presenting the link collections as a collage of...
Many Chromebook Reviews So Short-Sighted
It is disappointing that so many otherwise competent writers on technology are publishing totally dismissive reports about Chromebooks. I should start by admitting I don't...
Chromebooks Take Us Closest So Far to a Post-PC Era
I believe the coming of the Chromebook is the nearest we will come in the next months to the so-called post-PC era. Many scoff...
Survey of Student Devices and Sites
I was able to conduct my annual online survey of the computing and handheld devices used by my CORE114 Knowledge Society class over the...
Surviving Five Days on iPad and iPhone Alone
I'm into the last day of a 5-day inter-state break just before teaching begins again in week or so. It is the first time...
Cloud Drive and Cloud Player Excite
Amazon burst out of the blocks this week with the announcement of Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, aptly named cloud computing services. The more...
Prezi, Not Quite a PowerPoint Killer
My colleagues and I were recently asked by our Associate Dean, Teaching & Learning, if anyone was using Prezi for presentations. He pointed us...
My Votes for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011
These are my tool choices to contribute to the top 100 tools for learning list for 2011. All bona fide teachers can contribute by...
Finding Readability Extension for Chrome Impressive
Chrome is now my browser of choice now that I am weaning myself off Zotero. Not all sites, even some Google sites, are Chrome...
TheDaily, A Pointer to the Format of Ebooks To Come
It is 3 days since the first issue of the built for iPad newspaper TheDaily became available in Australia and the pattern of the...
The Demise of Social Conscience
I remember as a young child in the early 1950s it was always drummed into me that we must always respect the space around...
25 Orders of Magnitude of Hardware Improvement v Programming Languages
This post is for anyone interested in the history of programming languages and future trends. This is the topic covered by Robert Martin in...
That Ebook Cinderella Moment
Over the last year I have been gradually converted so that ebooks constitute 80% of my reading. The remaining 20% is about equally split...
Archiving Tweets for Analysis and Preservation with Archivist
As one of over 1.4 million followers of @timoreilly I thank him for his tweet about the new Archivist tool from Microsoft which is...
New Twitter and 960
About 200 million PCs now run Windows 7 and these users know or should soon find out that the Win-arrow key combinations make application...
5 Years with Google Reader and we are still together #yam
I was tweeting/yammering with @petahopkins the other day about Bloglines and my early days of blogging and blog reading. My first serious blog post...
Early Apple TV Experience Extremely Positive
I was pleasantly surprised to find my Apple TV ordered online on 5 September was shipped just 22 days later, and was actually delivered...
Mobile Devices and Online Tools Student Survey
As I did with a larger class last semester I just surveyed my current class on their use of mobile devices and various online...
Zotero Everywhere in the Nick of Time
I've been a Zotero fan for a number of years but just 10 days ago I reassessed its utility in the light of its...