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It's already hooked America's youth, and now Facebook is set on winning the hearts of two potentially lucrative demographics: Adults and the rest of the world. First, the adults: Facebook this week took on LinkedIn and other popular networking sites for working professionals with a new set of privacy controls that will give users greater control over who can see their profiles. Now a member can restrict who gets to see that drunken St. Patrick's Day photo - an important tool for working-age adults worried about a boss catching wind of their extracurricular activities. LinkedIn

Out to change the world and doing it. Meh.

Ning community for visitors to www.ictineducation.org and the newsletter, Computers in Classrooms

Good-bye to work hours.

A subscription site with enough free info on Index page to both intrigue and give a sense of what's happening at a national level in education. The tech savvy will search outside of www.edweek.org for the details, avoiding any need to pay fees.

Americans value mobility across the country and through the class ranks. This mobility remains especially important in times of economic stress. As educators, we can move to new schools or educational settings.

Many educators will need the support and ideas of their peers over the next few years.

Leonardo da Vinci was a change agent. You probably know it already, it's worth repeating. At the time of birth, you are endowed with the same potential he had. Today, we need more than genius to make things happen though.

We've all had a teacher who inspired us, who sparked our imagination. Please return the inspiration you received from your teachers by encouraging today's teachers to continue inspiring the thousands of children in their lives by sharing your tale here. Who is the teacher that inspired your imagination?

Big surprise: a lot of smarty-pants computer types have been snickering at John McCain lately.

Mike Arrington, the TechCrunch uber-blogger, spoke for many when he wrote recently: "Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they'll stop using it."