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SwipeStudy – now available on the Intel Appup store
Tweet Swipestudy is a flash-card study tool for the smartphone age, very useful for studying foreign languages and preparing for exams and best of all its all free. If you’re running Windows you can download it as an App here otherwise just goto http://swipestudy.com on your PC or smartphone. You can see what people are ...
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Wikileaks Cablegate on HRH Prince Andrew
According to a dispatch in the Cablegate Wikileaks treasure trove, American Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Tatiana Gfoeller attended a two-hour brunch to brief HRH Prince Andrew Duke of York ahead of his meetings with the Kyrgyz Prime Minister. Much of the banter is actually quite amusing and a rare peek into the attitudes of the British royal family.
“The crowd practically clapped. He then capped this off with a zinger: castigating “our stupid (sic) British and American governments which plan at best for ten years whereas people in this part of the world plan for centuries.” There were calls of “hear, hear” in the private brunch hall. Unfortunately for the assembled British subjects, their cherished Prince was now late to the Prime Minister’s. He regretfully tore himself away from them and they from him.”
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Social Media; doing good vs making money
Two social media videos…one inspiring, one impressive yet slightly scary
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Power in the Networked Century
TweetInteresting thoughts on hierarchies vs networks in this influential paper by Anne-Marie Slaughter, America’s Edge: Power in the Networked Century. In this world, the measure of power is connectedness. Almost 30 years ago, the psychologist Carol Gilligan wrote about differences between the genders in their modes of thinking. She observed that men tend to see ...
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Digital Diplomacy
Looks like the u.s. state department is ‘getting IT’
The underpinning philosophy of 21st-century statecraft is that the networked world ‘exists above the state, below the state and through the state’
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Gough!
Clifton Pugh’s portrait of Gough Whitlam in Parliament House in Canberra.