Why do Colleges Build Dormitories? And Teach Half-time?
Philip Greenspun asks this reasonable question and notes, "A university will spend hundreds of $millions on dormitories, i.e., places for students to drink beer and sleep together. More...

Current Edu-Bloggers
As George Siemens comments, "This has been the busiest week I've seen in the field of edu-tech bloggers." Or as Jay Cross says, "It feels like this train is finally leaving the station. Bravo!" I second that; I cannot even keep track of the dizzying pace. More...

Blurbs: Writing Previews of Web Pages
Via elearningpost comes this interesting link describing how to write 'blurbs' - like the thing you're realing right now - for weblogs and web pages. More...

Reinventing the Training Business
Some good comments mirrored at Internet Time summarizing where the training industry has gone off the rails in recent years, and where to look for salvation. More...

How To Get a News Feed Into Your WebCT Course
OK, keep this a secret from the company, since this basically undercuts the nice market for WebCT course packs they built up over the year. More...

Open-Education.Org
After much agony with the domain name - which was lost there for a while - open-education.org is now up and running. More...

Will The "Real" Community Please Stand Up?
David Wiley expressed surprise yesterday when he read my comment in OLDaily welcoming him to the learning object community. Of course, he always felt himself to be a member of that community. More...

Norman (Pudds) Downes
This is a very difficult week-end for me as my obviously sick 17 year old cat has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. With some palliative medicine we have been able to restore her to something like normal health, but this will last only for a few days. More...

Naval Academy Disciplines 85 Caught in Internet Music Raid
The U.S. Navy has disciplined students caught sharing files with demerits, extra work assignments and loss of privileges, a far cry from the court martials or expulsions expected by some. More...

Connecting Interested People to New Web Content With Syndication and Aggregation
HTML version of a set of PowerPoint slides providing an overview of content aggregation and syndication with RSS. More...