Everybody has their own method of tracking progress. I’ve landed onto a simple daily note that I open every morning inside Obsidian on my laptop and then sync to my mobile phone. When I can tick off some of the checklist items, I feel like I’ve accomplished important things. On top of …
So grateful for Brian Petro’s Smart Connections Community Plug-in for Obsidian.
I toggle between Obsidian (using it several times a day) and Notion (publishing content for workshops). I am getting smarter with both. I’ve discovered I actually take better notes than ever because my copy of Obsidian uses Brian Petro’s Smart Connections. That community plug-in …
I’m reading about how to be an office siren because I’ve noticed advice on professional attire is being replaced by the idea that if you’ve got it, flaunt it. And now with Ozempic and everyone losing enormous amounts of weight, I see men and women becoming more daring with what they wear …
I’m looking at practical workflows educators can improve with AI. My interest is shared by a group of 20 educators in an edulearn25 workshop. We’re starting by determining what Mairead Pratschke, Andrej Karpathy, and Ethan Mollick think about educators using AI to improve their workflows …
I often use Socrative to track activities in training workshops. This screenshot from Socrative revealed several things for me. First, the red responses show that two groups did not complete task 15 related to “authenticity statements”. And on group did not complete the task “use …
Ireland’s Minister for Higher Education, Research, and Skills has a message for my friends in America who have seen their research grants terminated and watched their collaborators rounded up by ICE. Here is what Minister James Lawless says. Behind every thriving economy lies a quiet, often …
I’ve owned two sets of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses since November 2023 and for the past nine months the “look and tell me” feature was deactivated. Then in late April 2025, version 216.0.0.51.168 landed on my Wayfarers and I regained the full AI service with the glasses.The 9th of May …
Looking at ways to link HCI funding to agentic AI training.
On the first day of Trump 2.0, I woke up worried about losing my mind because of an email overload–not caused by a broligarchy empowered in the States but by my email bloatage.Since I have several paid versions of AI services, I thought I could just put one of them to work but Larry Maguire …
Although I haven’t written down any Resolutions for 2025, I have taken some steps to clean up my routines so that during every increment of time, I’m aware of what I’m prioritising at the moment. I’ve been helped along in this Quest by the screen that welcomes me on my mobile phone. That screen is …
I’m looking at several standards for verifying ages, including the IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification I asked my resident AI to determine the most onerous burden faced by ISPs when implementing these proposed standards. The most onerous consideration for Internet Service Providers …
I’m running a hands-on AI training workshop for educators with educatefran at DEC24 on 10 Dec and hope we can claw back the increased productivity we get from AI by either getting more free time or getting paid more for getting more results during the normal business day. We have walked into a …
by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel IF YOU LIVE and work online, you’re creating electronic selfies all the time. It’s worth you time to see what those selfies show about you. Google forms a profile about you in order to show you relevant advertising. I look at what Google thinks I like by …
I AM COUNTING down the number of Mondays remaining in my university teaching career and with around four dozen Mondays on my academic schedule I’ve started thinking about what I will leave behind and who would be interested in the remnants of 25 years of my teaching on the same campus. …
AFTER THREE MONTHS of hard use, I can unreservedly recommend the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 as a primary tool for mobile journalism. I bought the camera and its accompanying DJI Wireless Mic II from Harvey Norman in Waterford after discovering DJI wasn’t stocking Whelan Cameras in Limerick fast enough. …
I’VE STARTED MOST MORNINGS with prompts to my favourite AI. Today I asked Mem.ai to guide me in a process that ensured the results of my questions would include trustworthy evidence from high quality sources. Its first set of answers drilled down into my personal knowledge management (PKM) …
DURING MY 3000 FLYING HOURS I vividly remember two occasions when we were cleared to land on a runway that was occupied by another aircraft or by a vehicle. In both cases, I didn’t see the conflict but a crew member sitting in the jump seat pointed out the problem.
by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel CATHERINE CRONIN launches Higher Education for Good in Galway today and I’ve asked our main library to add the book to our local reference section. In the book, editors Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz break down neoliberalism in higher education through a …
I AM CARVING OUT four hours a week to immerse in a short course about Creativity and Critical Thinking. After a few hours in the classroom, I’m starting to think that critical thinking is at odds with creativity.
by Bernie Goldbach in Cashel WE ARE EXTENDING communal expertise in the realm of pinpoints on a shared map. It means taking a measured step on a path that started with Cauwell pinpoint technology, meandered through both Nokia and Google Maps with social hiking and now involves the iCollab Community …
IN JULY 2002, I started playing around with Typepad at night while drawing up a patent during the day. I think it’s important to put the initial thoughts of the patent on my website, if only to serve as a point of reference for others investigating the same kind of intelligent digital signage.