Bringing Down Walled Gardens

The Economist has an article in the March 19th issue that discusses how open standards will, as they put it, ‘trump “walled gardens” on the internet’. The article is referring to closed systems on the internet such as Facebook and Second Life, which, much like the earliest subscription-based online services such as AOL, CompuServe, and [...]

Wikipedia: 2 Diverging Paths

An excellent new article in the March 6th edition of “The Economist” magazine, technology quarterly, assesses the two diverging paths Wikipedia, the popular online collaborative encyclopedia, may take: it can either continue to be inclusive or it can choose to exercise greater editorial control. Those in favor of the inclusive approach note how popular the [...]

Elluminate 8 promises some exciting new tools for synchronous learning

We use Elluminate statewide in the University of Alaska system. It’s a great tool for distance-delivered synchronous learning. The people behind Elluminate have announced the release of version 8 which I’m hoping we’ll migrate to sometime in the near future. The following is a partial list of some of the new features to look forward [...]