Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

More TV vs Internet debate with Ian Methods

A friend of mine, who works for one of the major Pay TV networks, mailed me a comment as I had inadvertently turned off comments when I moved to Wordpress. He …

ACUADS paper - The Future has already Happened: Dispelling some Myths of Online Education

Recently the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools finally published the papers from the 2004 ACUADS conference in Canberra. My paper, …

New Omnium site - an online haven of collaboration

My friends and colleagues on the Omnium project have just launched their shiny new site. It is the outcome of over six years of work and research and they have …

Snaps for my students

Nice to see one of my students, Tim Rudder getting some interest on Tween for the music clip, Alicia, he’s just finished for his final year project with …

Adolf. Not a popular name after 1940s.

We were looking around at the popularity of names the other night and amusingly stumbled across this graph. What’s weird is the change of heart around …

Finally moved to WordPress

Okay, I’ve finally moved Playpen over to WordPress (hence the default-ish) theme (see footer for credits) for now. I have set up Alex King’s mt-wp …

Where Old Media Go To Die

Take a trip down Memorex Lane with Cassette Jam ‘05. I remember these Teac cassettes well. I thought they were the word in their day. Thanks to Toby for …