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Goodbye W, hello Generation WE

It’s all about empowerment and taking back our society. Resonates beautifully with the Obama win though it’s about much more than that.
Are you looking forward to the next four years south of the border as much as I am?
Goodbye W.

A vision of students today

This isn’t new and doesn’t pretend to answer anything, but it’s got a solid, haunting quality and certainly gives you something to think about. Does information overload scare students today? Are too many things competing for their attention? Will their education deliver what they expect?
I know what I’m doing right now can [...]

Serious barriers to going open

While the title of this post sounds gloomy and might make it appear that I don’t favour opening up the web as much as humanly possible, in truth it’s the exact opposite. However, I like to think I’m also a realist and as I read and think about the move toward more open and [...]

Writing collaboratively with Skype chat and Google Docs

I’d imagine most people find the benefit of Skype to be that of free long distance calls. As long as the person you’re calling is also on Skype you can save airtime or long distance charges. That’s great, but given I do very little long distance calling and use my cell mostly for [...]

Google Chrome

The new browser offering from Google was just launched today and its name is Chrome. Well, not so much a browser as a browser-emulated OS-type thingey. I won’t link to all the places it’s popping up on the web, since Google has. I haven’t used it much, but I will offer a [...]

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