High Definition Video: Learn Travel and Tourism
Posted on December 11, 2008
I wish I could say that I made a living as a blogger, but I do put wine in the flagon by producing projects such as Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future, an interactive introductory course in Travel and Tourism, which we have just released. It is the successor to “World of Many Faces: An Introduction to the Profession of Travel and Tourism,” a program used in more than 100 institutions around the world for more than ten years. This one is a significant update in both content, with an emphasis on sustainable tourism, and technology. We produced it in high definition TV and it is playable in that format in large classrooms. But it can also be scaled down for Web and even mobile phone use. Have a look at an HDTV preview of it in Flash 9 . It is proof that we have come a long way in streaming video even in the past few months. You must have a 1.5 m connection and Flash 9 installed to watch it. CLICK HERE
Click below for the Apple TV/iPod low def version.
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Review: Blackberry Bold
Posted on December 10, 2008
Although I am a bit of a nerd, that is only on the surface. I am not one in practice. I love flashing lights and gauges (especially round retro ones) and use all sorts of gizmos from an HDTV camera to a Roomba. My relationships with their intricacies, however, are about as deep as Thomas Kincade’s relationship with art.
I have had an uneven courtship with mobile phones. I loved my old Motorola Flip Phone. It didn’t pretend to be anything more than a telephone without wires. I was initially pleased with my last model, a Palm Treo 680, billed as a Smartphone, but I am sure it would struggle to match wits with a third grader. I never quite sorted out the navigation system and the keys were too dainty for my prodigious thumbs. I use a phone to take notes at meetings but my words came out as if they were written by a drunken Lewis Carroll.
Then I dropped it (my wife Pat says on purpose), the case separated and the top popped off placing the ringer in permanent vibrate, making me a walking bumble bee.
The search was on for a replacement.
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Review - To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey Through West Africa
Posted on December 8, 2008
What would you do if could guiltlessly take a month off? Europeans do it all the time, but for North Americans, a month untethered from a Blackberry is a mean feat. I can’t comprehend the terror of deciding how I would spend my time. What if I blew it on some thumb-sucking search for vortexes in Sedona or inadvertently booked a cruise to nowhere with a convention of top-performing insurance agents? But then, what if I did something truly exotic, as Rick Antonson did: hitch my fate to a lurching train, a riverboat, a camel, a sputtering four-wheeler, and a dodgy tour arranger for a journey to Timbuktu. Oh, and what about those ancient manuscripts?
Kathmandu, Kalamazoo, Timbuktu…all aboard!
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Birds of India - Showoff
Posted on November 21, 2008
I grabbed a shot of these two publicity-savvy cormorants a few weeks ago on a boat trip in the Periyar Tiger Preserve, in Southern India.
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The New California Academy of Sciences
Posted on November 11, 2008
I spent a day at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. You really have to get there early to see the whole thing and have time for a lunch break. I missed the planetarium, but will return soon.
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