Open Source Takes on Hardware Biz
I've been waiting for an announcement like this. With the development of proprietary 'trusted' hardware that enforces digital rights management at the microprocessor level, open source and open content advocates faced a wall. More...

We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning
Nice survey article that tracks many of the threads converging to become what is now being called social software. More...

A Voice in The Void
A compilation of some posts to the CC-Education mailing list in which I propose a mechanism for integrating open content with open source applications. More...

Bots, Blogs & News Aggregator
It's a little self-promotional for my tastes (and I wouldn't boast about having 'discovered' blogs in 2001), but this article contains many useful links to blogging software, aggregators, and individual feeds. More...

What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism?
Via WebloggEd comes this good article about how weblog journalism compares to the traditional form (and, by extension, to traditional learning). Most of the changes are based on the changing power relationship: because everybody can blog, the direction of information changes, and it becomes less of a commercial enterprise and more of a gift economy. More...

Source of Worry for Microsoft
Two not unrelated news items. The information mavens here at NRC have concluded that it cannot be secured, and so have disabled access outside the building, which has prompted me to install the Mozilla Thunderbird email reader, which even in beta is much nicer to use. More...

Docent and Click2Learn Agree to Merge
Some rumours circulated over the last few days, but this press release on the Click2Learn site makes it official. A confrence call was held this morning to outline the terms, under which each of the two companies will be acquired by a third, new, company (to be called Click2Docent?). More...

Why Personalization Hasn't Worked
More proof that if you're looking for fish, you won't find them on your front lawn. According to the author, personalization hasn't worked - and the bulk of the column is devoted to explaining why. More...

Dusk and Dawn
Got an email or two from the author to announce this new elearning blog (which, if the sequence of nouns in the title is any clue, must be a moonlighting gig). Some good content already. More...

Students Find $100 Textbooks Cost $50, Purchased Overseas
It's a practice that has persisted for years, but which is being cast under a new light thanks to the internet. In a nutshell, a textbook that sells for a lot in North America sells for a lot less elsewhere in the world. More...