Besides the "god gave you one mouth, but two ears" most of the communication you will need is around negotiation. Here the Harvard Center for Negotiation published an excellent series of books: Getting to Yes, Getting past No, Difficult conversations, Lateral leadership and the Power of a positive NO. I wrote a little about it: http://www.wissel.net/stw/wisselblog.nsf/d6plinks/SHWL-6LR37S You also might want to check out Toastmasters who hone speaking skills or "The contrary public speaker". While they are not strictly about communication, they are about making your point understandable (litmus test: explain to a Rotary Club what a Social Graph is - they live it, but the don't use that lingo). Hope that helps

On a SingTel 200MBit fibre plan. Ping to local sites 250 ms. Traceroute shows the latency jumps between 203.208.182.153 and 203.208.151.246 which ironically is INSIDE SingTel's network. So they prevent speedy connections

In what other language would this statement compile without error:

PERFORM makemoney UNTIL rich.

(Note the the full stop at the end)

Once you got PDFs or JPGs you need to somehow organize them in a meaningful way: - by document date (a lot of extra work to add that)? - by type (could be done while scanning)? - by expiry date? - by sender/recipient ? OCR the content and make it conveniently available What system would do that?

I'll buy again. Heck I even would buy a give-two-get-one. The original machine had huge gaps between promise and delivery, but worked nicely reading blogs in bright sunlight. What I would wish for howerver is some documentation which batch my donated machine(s) would go to. I actually would be ready to chat with the receiver from time to time. Sutra Mitra had identified this as a booster for learning. And IMHO learning is key to anybody's future.

I used a number of devices with different sizes. The 2.3" mini Android phone up to a 10.1" tablet. My current favorite form factor is 7". It fits into a cargo pocket or a (inner) pocket of a jacket (even a suit, but I guess that's not your concern). I currently use a Huawei MediaPad. Solid unibody, great screen resolution. Runs Android 3.2 (unfortunately they haven't announced when they will upgrade to 4.0). Huawei leaves the UI in its original state, so you get pure Android bliss. Biggest let-down: you have a separate charger, it won't charge through USB, so you need to carry an adapter. It is slimmer than the Samsung 7"

... later on in the workplace it is called "effective collaboration and asset reuse". Could it be, that the way test are administered is out of sync with live's reality and "cheating" the the adjustment to that?

Mondrian would be proud that Metro picked up his art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian