Inside View

Replaced iPad with Surface

"I STOPPED CARRYING my iPad because the Surface is lighter and more capable". That's what two of my students told me this month and it's the primary reason I've shed a faithful piece of technology.

Reaching Digital Saturation #digitaldetox

Snap of @topgold's strap-on. I'M STICKING TO MY fitness resolution because I often wear a heart rate monitor under my moobs to remind me what being fat feels like. And I'm also purging a lot of notifications from my life as part of ...

Trying to Make Yammer Work Remotely #GTD

My screenshot of Yammer's Inbox log-in. AS PART OF A CORE GROUP of third level lecturers who want to accelerate collaboration, I'm trying to make Yammer work inside a third level institution while connected at the fringes of Office ...

Hands-on #Ricoh360

MY WORLD COLLIDED with the Ricoh Theta S camera and I can feel that using it will take me into an exciting equirectangular realm full of surprise nadirs. The handiest feature of the Ricoh Theta S is knowing both Facebook and Googl...

My First Leuchtturm 1917

A LEUCHTTURM 1917 joins 200 other A5 journals (mostly Moleskines) that I've used since 1997. These journals are part of a refined note-making process.

Field Trip to Microsoft Europe

UPDATED 7 FEBRUARY 2020: This is the first blog post I've made that integrates content from my Github Gists. If I continue this practice, I believe I will be able to reduce the number of dead links on my website. That would be a major ...

How Remoting Changed My Workflow #WFH

SIXTY DAYS INTO working from home, I've changed some routines and become more aware of collaborative calendaring. I also know I need to upskill.

Journaling with Speech Bubbles and Keyboard Entries

I TEACH JOURNALING to Media Writing students and for the next three years I plan to enhance that creative process with a few specific tips. One is to require a double spread page of speech bubbles and another task is to show a page tha...

Snippets about Leadership in my Second Brain #cong21

I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS about leadership bubbling up inside my second brain. Leadership is a prime topic following me from my days as an Air Force officer and it's the main feature during Congregation 2021.

Impressed by Veed.io #EdChatie

By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel. Screenshot by @topgold. I STARTED EXPERIMENING with Veed.io on my Samsung Note 9 handset. Here are a few impressions concerning mobile content production, project templates, and workflow.