Next-Generation Wireless Technologies
Useful and timely report on next generation wireless technologies with an emphasis on their application in schools. Gets at the technical stuff - including reference to a format I hadn't seen before (802.11n) - but in a clear enough manner to be read by non-technologists. More...

SkillSoft as Buyout Bait
Good earning but soft bookings for SkillSoft leads this writer at Motley Fool to suggest it is ripe for acquisition, naming several potential purchasers, including the University of Phoenix. More...

The Role Of Learning Technology Practitioners And Researchers In Understanding Networked Learning
This is a neat paper that captures an issue close to my heart, describing the "divide between learning technologists which have a practical, practitioner support focus and those with more of a research orientation." The author asks, "How can we ensure that the research does inform practice and vice verse?" Well, speaking from the practical, practitioner side, I can offer one suggestion: speed up the research process. More...

VoIP in the Enterprise
I have always hated telephones, and I discovered when I installed Skype onto my computer that I hate them as much online as in the traditional form. But most people like telephones, and they are looking for the ease and savings that may be obtained by transferring voice communications to the internet. More...

RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal
Learning Circuits has run my article on RSS, surveying some of the details of the syndication format and discussing the relation between RSS and some other initiatives such as OAI and social networking. More...

RSS Feeds Can Build Web Traffic, but Fence Sitters Note Problems
The first thing you'll learn from this article is the meaning of the term 'scraping', something I think a number of academic publications are ripe for. Scraping illustrates the power of RSS: "yanking control" over information viewing from the providers and placing it into the hands of the readers. More...

TOIA - A First Look
The author takes a spin though the TOIA - Technologies for Online Interoperable Assessment system - and offers this review. Some usability issues, a quirky Java engine that would stymie someone like me (turn it off? I didn't even know it was on!) and a smallish question bank. More...

Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online Information
The New York Times take on RSS, offering ti as a content filtering service. This isn't a bad interpretation, since as many commentators have noted, RSS feed readers are a lot more efficient that email or web browsers. More...

Southern Miss may Change E-mail Policy
As the recent controversy over Google's use of email contents to filter advertising has shown, the (presumed) privacy of email is a sensitive issue. At Southern Miss this issue has become front and center. More...

The Courtship of Atom
Atom is the name of the community driven alternative to RSS that developed in response to the endless conflicts over RSS. Adopted by Google's Blogger system and other major players, it is a viable candidate to replace RSS (eventually) for a number of reasons. More...