Monthly Archives: March 2009

An epic showdown! In this corner, we have Academic Earth. “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.” Looks sharp. Looks keen. And you know it’s good stuff because they didn’t mess with the regular scholars, only the top … Continue reading →

I read a post by David Wiley over at his blog. I ended up making a comment, and then realize there was a blog post in all my ramblings. In his post, Wiley talks about how acreditors want to come … Continue reading →

Competency-based certification. You heard it here first. In the beginning we had a library; just a collection of books gathered by some rich king. Then the university came along and added a social component to the library. The university secured … Continue reading →

If you’re in the publishing industry–author, publisher, bookseller, whatever–you need to read this. Sure, this article is about the newspaper industry, but you have to ask yourself, are we next?

You and me, we watch Youtube videos and think, ‘ha ha, that is funny’. This guy looks at them and thinks, ‘I could make me a song out of that.” The results are incredible. I can’t stop listening. He’s got … Continue reading →

John: Whoa! This scripture tells the Jews, “lo, lo”. What does that mean? Mom: That means to listen up. John: Yeah like, “Hey you guys, loosen up!”

A year or so ago I put forth the idea of linking wikipedia articles to a location. We’re now officially one step closer to that reality. A French company has put the entire wikipedia on on a mobile device. All … Continue reading →

Can’t quite wrap your head around the concept of a trillion? Don’t feel bad, neither can I. It’s hard to really understand the concept. We hear about it in the news, but let’s face it, we all went to public … Continue reading →

When my oldest son was little, I started reading him Shel Silverstein. He got mixed up when I told him that these were poems, and poetry, and he called it all poemtry. Although now he knows what it’s really called, … Continue reading →

Good article over at the Huffington Post by Hugh McGuire. This particular sentence jumped out at me. “After a day on the web, it’s often hard to get my brain to switch back to the slowness needed to read a … Continue reading →