Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw Men of the Meta-Utopia
This article is a reprint of an item that has been around since August, 2001, but the points are worth making again. But so - importantly - are the solutions. Most of the issues involve inaccurate metadata. This is why I advocate third party metadata, that is, metadata provided by neutral and qualified observers. More...
Windows users and non-users alike should get a good chuckle out of Windows RG (for "Really Good"). As you use it, don't panic. More...
JamSpam: It just might save the Internet
Relief against unwanted email (of which there is a lot) may be on the way as industry experts are beginning to coalesce around the idea of an industry-wide anti-spam consortium intended to create an open, royalty-free, interoperable, anti-spam protocol. More...
Kubrick2001
I would do a couple of things differently (including getting the rights to use Also Sprach Zarathustra) but I think you'll agree with me that this goes far beyond what we typically think of as online learning. More...
Venture Capital: Online Education Attracting Support
Describes investors' attitudes toward online learning, illustraing that theme with an account of Howard Schultz's $7.5 million investment in Capella (Schultz is known for such other moderately successful enterprises as Starbucks and eBay). More...
The famous Powers of Ten series of images has been placed into a nice Java applet for easy (and impressive) viewing. More...
More E-Portfolio/Web Log Thoughts
Good post in today's Weblogg-Ed weblog taking the discussion of "electronic portfolios" at the recent NLII meeting and substituting the word "weblog" instead. More...
News That Comes to You
Yet an introductory article on RSS (it's hard to believe that this technology is half a decade old). "Instead of the hunt and peck of Web surfing, you can download or buy a small program that turns your computer into a voracious media hub, letting you snag headlines and news updates as if you were commanding the anchor desk at CNN." Substitute the word "learning" for "news" in the quote above and you see why I'm such a strong advocate of the RSS approach to e-learning. More...
Desire: Connecting With What Customers Want
OK, here's the business recipe (via elearningpost) for short term gains, loss of perspective, and ultimately harmful business practices. I hate to sound so negative. But the point of this article is to show that our socioeconomic structure is largely about selling ideas. More...
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