John Dvorak recently wrote on The Myth of Disruptive Technology. Here’s my favourite line:

Yeah – sure thing, John. Coincidentally, many people consider John Dvorak to be the biggest crock of the old millenium [...]

Frontier has been released as an open source project.

Students offended by distribution of printed listserv postings | Kairosnews :: So, if you had participated in a class listserv, how would you feel if the instructor printed up the archives of the listserv and handed it out to your group as a tool for stimulating discussing? The students of the instructor quoted in [...]

Click here to become infected :: The Register is reporting on a new reason to make sure you ditch Internet Explorer, and if you are using IE on Windows I can’t think of a better reason than this. This exploit uses a javascript extension proprietary to Internet Explorer to download an executable file to [...]

From BBC News, India launches learning satellite. According to the article, the project took 3 years and $17 million. Its great to see large scale projects that are dedicated to education; in this case the Edusat is going to be used to train teachers in India and link classrooms throughout the country. It is [...]

Alec Couros has recently advocated getting a Mac as a means of protection against spyware. True enough, but there are other methods:

wiley.ed.usu.edu – The Wrath of Kaa: A Letter to the Editors of The Register :: David Wiley has written an open letter to the editors of the Register taking them to task on their criticism of Wikipedia as an example of an open education project. It is too bad that the Register is [...]

cogdogblog: Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design… I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test::Alan Levine compares his experience with a beautifully designed, technically perfect piece of online instruction with the way he really learns what he needs to do in order to do his job. I appreciate his lament that there is a lot [...]

So far the transition to WordPress is going nicely. I have imported all my old entries from Movable Type, but all the old draft posts require that I change the date or else they show up as today (or whatever day I move them from draft to publish status). It would be much more convenient [...]

Ta-da – presenting the new and improved stigmergicweb!

I have been wanting to try some new blogging tools for a while for a few different projects. D’Arcy Norman suggested WordPress, and I liked what I saw. I added Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick theme, and really liked what I saw! The transfer over of [...]