Archive for April, 2009

Helping Adult Literacy using Audio

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We developed a site some time ago which perfectly illustrated the use of use of audio on the web. Argyll and Bute Council Community Education asked us to create a website for the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Programme.  The programme/site is intended to help improve Adult Numeracy and Literacy in Scotland. The site has various [...]

Then we learned to speak

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

We communicate using our voices everyday so why do we think that our websites must contain words and pictures instead of audio messages? I mean radio does a good job of using sounds/audio only to get their messages out in between playing songs (if they play any).

Who hates SMS?

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Man I hate SMS/texting. Even with an iphone sending an SMS is such a fiddly affair. If you walked up to someone and stated that you had discovered a facility which gives you
real-time communication
duplex communication
you can hear the persons tone and voice
either person can initiate the communication
you can share the conversation with other people
Guess what. [...]

Out of air in the Red Sea

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

On a recent holiday in Egypt I decided to do some scuba diving in the Red Sea as it is famous for being some of the best diving in the world. I originally became certified as a Scuba Diver in 1996 on a trip to Australia however I had not done a lot of dives [...]