Writing

In looking at what I wrote are the top 10 interesting learning technology applications currently available, one common theme is that they are all "outside in" services. In other words, they don't start with the proposition that learning, or education, [...]  Read more

While developing own our app, we've come across dozens of other services that sit at the intersection of education and advanced Internet technologies.Here is a list of the most interesting ones out there, based on those that I think are [...]  Read more

Over the past five years, I've seen an abundance of web-based innovation centered around structuring data and different data-types.Many interesting applications have been developed to address a similar problem: how to manage data-types in an always-connected, Internet-centric environment. Some of [...]  Read more

I am working on a longer post about Carmun (http://www.carmun.com/) for sometime in the next week. Needless to say, my post, and this business I founded in general, are about utilizing technology in new ways to enhance learning, connections, and [...]  Read more

For Anglicans who still haven't found what they're looking for, the Church of England is staging its first "U2-charist" communion service -- replacing hymns with hit songs by the Irish supergroup.Yahoo News Read more

Anthony Volodkin of Hypemachine, on the Podblop Blog:iPod or Zune?iPod, but I don't even listen to my iPod anymore. I soak in the surroundings. When I take the train, I look at people. It's interesting. I think it's the next [...]  Read more

"What we’re about to tell you is so shocking . . .. . . we ask that you please be seated before reading on.There once was a time when “home entertainment system” meant “jigsaw puzzle” and "interactive experience” meant “wedgie.”Honest [...]  Read more

Attending Mashup Camp this week, really stimulating bunch of people and conversations. Much to digest, but two things standout:-- Jon Aizen and Eran Shir of Dapper, smart guys with a wild technology to extract content, or create an API in [...]  Read more

[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og:So far we've predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. "Cell phones [...]  Read more