A couple of weeks ago I had breakfast over at the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve in Singapore during my last visit. The reserve is a nice place to take a rest and recharge one’s batteries. I went for a walk around parts of the reserve, took some photographs, and observed that the reserve is making use of QR Codes. I have blogged about QR Codes previously here and there.

The staff have established a wireless learning trail at the reserve. Devices are made available to students so that they can access location specific multimedia data while walking the mangrove boardwalk. The portable reading device is rented to the students at $3.00SGD per student. I wonder if mobile phones equipped with QR Code reading software can also access the content?

Recently, a participant at one of my workshops, Gabriel, shared with me the usefulness of NetNewsWire as a feed reader. I downloaded and installed it and I have been using it for a few days now. Not bad indeed. It is a client side application for the Mac. It is a typical Mac app. When the feeds arrive they are viewed as a simple list according to the title of the blog post. An example is illustrated below. As you look at the list of blog post titles below see if you can interpret the content of each blog post.

This list illustrates the importance of a suitable title for your blog post. This is not always an easy task. The post title should be descriptive and reflective of the blog post’s content. I believe that a descriptive blog post can also assist with a Google search on that topic. Your blog post is more likely to be located and selected if the post title is representative of the post content.

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After

Arrived home yesterday afternoon.

The distance from Singapore to Sydney is 6300 kilometres. The flight took just under 7 hours. At various times during the flight the tail wind was approximately 140 kmh. That pushed us along a little faster than normal.

In comparison, the distance from Sydney to Wollongong is about 85 kilometres. I arrived in Wollongong 3 hours after arriving in Sydney. Long story, long wait and 3 coaches involved.

I was going to meet up with some teachers in Sydney that evening yet had decided against it a couple of days before due to the possible impact of the World Youth Day celebrations upon traffic. I was also simply exhausted.

This post was blogged via MarsEdit on the Mac. I am also trying out NetNewsWire as a feedreader as it integrates with Mars Edit. Shall see how it goes.

I have been playing around with a visualisation of RSS feeds. I began by creating a collage of logos and headings in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I was then going to create bezier curved lines with arrows. This was not possible in Elements. This is a work in progress.

Not too sure how to label semantic tools like AideRSS, Yahoo Pipes! and Dapper. They all filter and/or mix feeds. They could also be placed between the various RSS sources and the news aggregators in the centre. Then of course the RSS feeds from the news aggregators can be fed into tools like NetVibes and Pageflakes. Feeds from the aggregators could also be pumped back into blogs, and so on.

Just a start. Still have the PSD file with all the layers.