I sometimes express angst via my @aneesha twitter account, never thinking that anybody takes notice of what I choose to complain about. I was surprised to realize that the @safaribooks does indeed listen. The story begins with me being given access to a book I really wanted to read via Safari Books Online. In all honestly, I could not get comfortable with reading the book via the web-interface that Safari Books provides. It was hard to scroll between pages, the font rendering was blurry, and I needed to be online while I read the book. This all gave me a headache which prompted me to tweet - “Safari books - your web-based e-book reader with crappy font rendering has given me a headache.” Not my best articulation of a problem but I have an excuse - I had a headache. I really did not think this feedback would go any further but the next day @safaribooks replied with “@aneesha A headache is no good at all. I will share your feedback with our product management team.”. Now that’s pretty impressive and proactive customer support. …which gets even better when I then receive an email from customer support wanting further details of my issues. So thank you Safari Books for actively seeking to improve your product and monitoring sentiment via twitter feeds even though I wonder how you got my email address. 

Flashmeeting from Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, produces visualizations of meeting activity. Very impressive - take a look at an example. I recommend the paper from the group: “The Shape of Live On-line Meetings“. Wondering if Flashmeeting is open source???? Can’t seem to find a link to download it.

Watch and laugh - Dick is hilarious as the Academic who can’t use a computer. Watch Dick over use technology in Part 2 - way to make fun of webcams and online recorded lectures.

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You get a Random Syntax Blog post returned as the first result….. Cool!

Via geekhero - this is an absolute gem from CSI New York. Now really, TV shows need to actually have a Programmer as a technical consultant. Hire me, Hire me!!!

I am going to use “The Presentation Randomizer“. It is not what you think! It is similar to the Hamish and Andy “2 become 1″ idea, where at the sound of a buzzer they have to complete each others sentences while doing a gotcha call. Now to convince my co-presenter…….

The fact that most of the sites I find useful have no substantial revenue model, really really scares me. Especially in these times of finacial uncertainty, when Venture Capital is obviously going to run out. How much longer can these sites survive without returning a profit?

I love the Experience WII Ad - it shakes up the rectangular ad banner in a big way. It is quite disruptive, but gets away with it. Good internet marketing. A lot of ppl I chat to, just don’t get internet marketing and the potential it has to shake up traditional marketing channels? Those that get it, get it in a big way and those that don’t, don’t get it at all. Alas, if only I had gotten that Internet Marketing position that I applied for in 2006…

My reply would be, "no amount of Project Managers will be able to change the Lightbulb as a Change Manager would really need to be assigned", but this cartoon from Geek and Poke does a better job.

Smashing Magazine is renowned for their ‘the best of’ articles eg CSS, JQuery, etc…. I’ve stumbled on the equivalent in education terms: ZaidLearn. ZaidLearn has:

• 101 Free Learning Tools
• 101 Open Educational Resources
• 101 Free Edu Games
• Amazing Free elearning eBook Collection

I am just not sure if slideshare is the best way to present the material??????