Metro gets grant for surveillance cameras
WMATA (DC) received a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to install surveillance cameras outside all 86 Metrorail stations. Original post
Tech Support Care Package – Google
I think this is a really interesting website (Tech Support Care Package) which allows a user to post a message to their parents or anyone actually with a list of useful videos to allow them to learn how to use aspects of the web. You are limited to sending 12 videos at a time, howeverRead… Read more »
Open Government: The Need for Readiness Assessment Framework
Since the Open Government Initiative was kick-started in the United States in 2009, the implementation of the concept has exceeded the borders of US to other countries around the world. Australia Declaration of Open Government and Canada Open Data Project are only two examples of these countries. During the last few weeks, I’ve been inRead… Read more »
Best of EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011
The conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, is in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I am presenting a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course”. Just had a note from the organisers to say there is a spare ticket to the Tall Ships cruse 3 April on The Svanen. Normally I miss the social eventsRead… Read more »
My experience of the #26March protests
This is a tough post to write and even tougher to write succinctly. Capturing such a fluid and changing day of two halves in something as structured as a blog post is a little challenging, but I feel obliged to give it a go. It also goes without saying (and covered by many elsewhere) thatRead… Read more »
Best of EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011
The conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, is in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I am presenting a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course”. Just had a note from the organisers to say there is a spare ticket to the Tall Ships cruse 3 April on The Svanen. Normally I miss the social eventsRead… Read more »
Pick up the phone
Pick up the phone I recently gave away my old futon mattress on Craigslist (thanks, Craig!). Why does this have to do with job searching? I posted the listing in the “free stuff” section. As anyone knows who has ever posted anything in that section, you are immediately inundated with random emails and calls fromRead… Read more »
Educational Technologist Job Available at ANU
The Educational Development Group of the Australian National University (ANU), College of Engineering and Computer Science has advertised for an “Educational Technologist”:Educational Technologist (G157-11MY) Research School of Engineering, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science Come join the education team in Engineering and Computer Science in redeveloping College courses to realise Original post
New Free Database of U.S. Court Decisions, Using RECOP Data, by John Joergensen
John Joergensen of the Rutgers Camden Law Library has created a new, free, full-text database of what appear to be all judicial decisions issued by U.S. state and federal courts from January 2011 to present: State and Federal Caselaw from the RECOP Project. The database contains data from RECOP, The Weekly Report of Current Opinions,Read… Read more »
Ticking through the years
Metro-North Railroad (NY) officials relocated a historic pre-digital clock within Grand Central Terminal. Original post