Smooth Things and Good Information

Over this last weekend I have been to a number of quite good lectures from the RMIT GRC, graduate research conference. Apart from just being a good showcase of interesting work it also unveiled the reason and value of doing a PhD at some point and now I am even considering this a real possibility. For the time being I am interested in doing it some place where I do not speak the language and where I can get a scholarship. More on this later.

At the same time there is some interesting work here on interface design. I think this is a great example of what more projects should be like. Seeing many of the graduate projects I realised that most people do not know anything about presenting content well. I was saddened also to see that a number of the applicants, especially masters were at quite an elementary level of development of ideology. I am not sure if these people will be allowed to progress immediately and I hope that RMIT presses them to work harder in the future.

Because I was away watching presentations and working on projects a lot recently I have a huge number of reading built up in my Google reader. I am working though it and learning interesting things. Read my reblog if you want to see more on that.