Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Teaching in the Networked World
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was asked what was most likely to cause problems for governments he famously replied ‘events, dear boy, events’.
Coping with the completely unexpected, the sort of thing that simply cannot be anticipated, is a skill in itself and one that [...]
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 5th through March 8th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 5th and March 8th:
This is unutterably cool.. – %extended%
net.wars – Wendy Grossman on Phorm – she’s not as opposed to the idea as some
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between March 2nd and March 3rd:
Metcalfe?s Law: more misunderstood than wrong? « HighContrast – A 02006 post spotted via O’Reilly’s blog and worth reading. I’ve always been annoyed with the simplistic chants of ‘Metcalfe’s Law’ from the net zealots. Now I know I was right
FT.com / Your [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Playing with the Wii
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
The Nintendo Wii is an astonishing computer, the console for people who don’t play games, nestling next to the TV like a family pet and encouraging those who would normally sneer at a PlayStation to wave their arms around in order to play virtual [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on March 1st:
Free download of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Boing Boing – Cory doesn’t like it. Nor do I.
Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal: The nature of free – the problem isn’t that books are given away or that people read books they haven’t paid for. The problem [...]
