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Transparency in Sharing Lives

An anthology of Nelson Mandela's writings, Conversations With Myself was published on 12 October and had its official launch on 1 November at the...

Why Do a PhD?

Leigh Blackall was a guest presenter at the Creative Research Discussion Group at the University of Canberra today. Leigh's presentation was titled Why Would...

Reading, Collections and Good Neighbours

This is brief post to flag two delightful discussions from the ABC's Book Show (11 October 2010). Neighbourliness at the Warburg Institute Anthony Grafton talked about...

Philip, Mark, Mick, Wayne, Brian and Donald

This is a brief post about well-being. It was prompted by media reports of Mark Thompson's decision to end his head coach's role at...

Association, Aggregation and Acknowledgement

Introduction In the last year I have been exploring how a connectivist approach to sharing information might support the flourishing of digital communities of practice...

Resilient Authoritarianism and Soft Power

Introduction Last Thursday I was driving into Canberra and had the opportunity to listen to Richard McGregor's interview with Margaret Throsby on ABC's Classic FM....

Sport n.0: Connecting Social Networks

Last year I wrote a paper for a special edition (Multimedia, the World Wide Web and eLearning in Sport) of the International Journal of...

Performance and Auto Suggestion

A fortnight ago I wrote a post about deliberate practice. Whilst writing that post I was thinking about Sergei Rachmaninoff. I had read about his...

Social Media Sharing

I have been posting some #worldcup updates to Twitter this week. In passing I have accessed a number of links to social media resources...

Deliberate Practice: What Coaches Can Learn From Pianists

This morning on Classic FM (Australia) Margaret Throsby had a telephone conversation with Boris Berman about the Melbourne Festival of the Piano. Part of...

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