Pitch
Preview announcement of Pitch, a new journal devoted to instructional technology produced by David Wiley and the crew in Utah. It looks like a nice format: Creative Commons licensing, RSS feeds, and yes, even a form of peer review. More...

Contribute to EdNA Online
EdNA continues to show the world how it should be done as it issues a national call for learning content providers to make their metadata available for harvesting. More...

Districts Line Up In Laptop Opposition
If you had the chance to distribute a laptop to every student at $25 per, you'd jump at the chance, right? Well, not these schools in Detroit, which find the program too expensive. More...

RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml
Discussion is filling the Syndication list at Yahoo! groups over a proposed public feeds file format. The idea of the proposed PublicFeeds.opml specification is that a website could display, in a commonly understood way, a list of all the feeds available. More...

Navigating the Net Just Got Easier
Amblit is a semantical web browser "with an intelligent semantic agent and an integrated content manager." There is no demo available on the site, and you have to pay money for it sight unseen, which means that it will never become widely used. More...

Another Whack at Spam
That tired old proposal, to combat spam by charging an email tax, has surfaced again, this time thanks to Tim Bray. This is such a bad solution I cannot criticize it enough. More...

Seventh-Graders Learn to Build Robots With Legos
This is the sort of hands-on activity that will over time come to typify online learning (why do people think online learning is merely reading a computer screen?). Lego supports this sort of activity with its Mindstorms program, and modding has become a major driver for Lego. More...

Techno-News Blog. After celebrating Chrome’s ten-year anniversary on Sunday, Google released today version 69 of the Chrome browser, one of the most feature-rich versions in recent years. More...