Wikipedia turned 7 this year (actual date January 15), is today in top 10 of website popularity. It is certainly popular with me — it has become the first site I turn to for all sorts of little trivia. Yes, I know you shouldn’t use it for serious research, but you can’t beat it as a jumping off point. So why not make the searching even easier. I like the firefox add-on myself, but the 10 ways article has some goodies as well.
Guitar World magazine is repackaging content from its magazines in instructional DVD-booklet packages, selling them on newsstands, and finding it a surprise success. I’ve seen these, and while I haven’t bought one, I’ve been tempted. From seeing the magazine, I don’t expect the instructional content itself is any better than much of the competition. But that competition exists in music stores, or on line. On the newsstand there isn’t anything to compete — and at under $10 it is a great impulse buy.
Are we on the verge of another battle of the web browsers? Frankly I can’t believe that Internet explorer has 75 percent of the desktops. Maybe Firefox 3 will raise the bar enough to make people take the time to download and install it. This article from the Sunday NYT is interesting as much for what they don’t mention — where is Opera? (Their mini browser is killer on the Blackberry.) They do mention Flock several times.
In part 1 of this post I started musing on what type of training is appropriate for ‘normal’ people — otherwise known as non-technical users. In my experience IT-types enjoy learning about technical subjects, just for the sake of learning. And with their backgrounds they can filter through the information and pull out the nuggets that they can use. I think the normal people really just want to have the nuggets delivered to them, so they can get in and out of training as quickly as possible.
You know, in the early 70’s the American auto industry felt invincible, but time has proved otherwise. Is this the early 70’s for higher ed? Read on!
“What happened to the recording industry is what is happening to the newspaper industry,” said Mr. Hundt, referring to the financial troubles of many music labels and newspaper companies now that songs and news stories can be found free online. “And what’s happening to the newspaper industry will probably happen to elite universities.”
It seems to me that mobile is the next great educational opportunity — everyone has them with them all the time. They are an always-on channel to implement micro-learning events 24 x 7. And right now there is not a lot of good content, which in my book translates into opportunity! Read the rest of this entry »
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