George Siemens catches the mood that Audrey Watters, Jim Groom and others have been pushing out. Technology is too shiny and we forget the humans that we work with at the peril of developing automatons and throwing away people and creativity.
Chronicle report on talk by Jim Groom on using blogs to teach online. Chronicle comes over as apologists for Blackboard (you wouldn't want to read their stuff regularly!) and doesn't really explore the opportunities that Groom would have been highlighting.