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Elearning is static. Mark William Johnson keeps us entertained with more philosophical musings on life, death and elearning.

Why Coursera & Udacity are killing Open Education.

How tech can result in bad outcomes through external bias and social failures. We can forget that there is more to tech than it being "just some software."

The future of information and freedom compared - Huxley & Orwell

Dashboard with global stats on infections and deaths.

What happens to your social media presence when you die

"Within a week of the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, a library surfaced in the midst of the protest. Staffed by volunteers and comprised entirely of donated materials, the People's Library offers books and media to the public, provides basic reference assistance and has built an online catalog of their holdings. In this paper, I analyze the People's Library in terms of larger discussions of libraries, technology and activism. Drawing on personal experiences volunteering at the Library as well as text from the Library's blog, I argue that the People's Library offers two counter arguments to conventional claims about the public library: first, that libraries are being existentially threatened by the emergence of digital technologies and second, that a library's institutional ethics are located solely or predominantly in the content of its collection. Using the People's Library as a kind of conceptual case study, I explore the connections between public libraries, digital technologies and activist ideologies."

Very cutting post by John Naughton on the demise of the Open Internet post Snowden.

"Private feedback has its place in education. We contend, however, that the vast majority of feedback can and should be public."

Simulation graphic showing rates of birth, death and CO2.