Bringing Wireless Infrastructure to small villages in Peru. Why and how?

Multiple Display technologies the move that parallels everything that came before it, to fully digital (non disc based) music.

Original Article

18 ereaders>1 Library?

The professor's argument on why wikipedia will fail

In Goldman's view, the very popularity of the site stands in tension with its goal of radical openness. The freely editable nature of Wikipedia has made it a canvas upon which vandals, spammers, and pranksters can paint at will.--Goldman Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) argues the oppositte: that enough people care about wikipedia to prevent it from devolving into chaos, which is what would happen if nobody cared.

How does the internet affect our lives?

Takes on Distributed Learning (wikipedia)

Ars Technica's take on the grand question of our time

Dueling opinions on what the Net offers us.

This is a review of Clay Shirky's book, "Here Comes Everybody" in which he describes the dramatic impact the internet has, and will continue to have on how we learn and communicate. This book (and review) will give you some insight into how your children may be using these technologies. But it should also raise questions about how we, as practitioners, can use the affordances of the new tech to improve our efficiency, effectiveness, and efficacy.

Sheffield 1972

informal learning

Coming to terms with "Friendship" in a (socially) networked world.

Sillicon Valley (Social) entrepreneurs hosting developer garage in Uganda