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Tech crunch implodes - or not? What effect will AOL have? Does anybody care. Passion though from MG Siegler

The latest from Wacom - sketch on any paper and capture.

Compare and choose your tablet.

"R is an open source statistical programming language"

"You can learn just about anything from YouTube…if you're willing to dig through millions of videos. Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you..."

Google's intro to Glass. Exciting although it really only shows its camera and wireless ability. Watch the video.

Excellent account by the excellent Audrey Watters on the really expensive, really disruptive conference populated by really rich and really cool people (well at least that's what they think when they look in the mirror).

Jon Evans releases two novels as free ebooks. Both had previously been paid print releases. As a side note, both are thrillers - Invisible Armies is about hackers, anti-corporate protestors, globalization, and the surveillance society; Swarm is about fleets of UAVs in The Wrong Hands

Looks to be basically a paid service although has limited free option.

Changing the focus of Docs. Recently users were allowed to add any file to their Docs space - this project will make that a primary function, bit like MS Skydrive maybe.

Useful post using Thiels HE Bubble thesis as a starting point to look at the possible future of HE.

More tech class control by Chasen, ex Blackboard.

Google moving into games.

"Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent . . ." No linking, no paraphrasing - make it illegal says judge

"Instead, for Thiel, the bubble that has taken the place of housing is the higher education bubble. "A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed," he says. 'Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.'"

New service to save, remix, re-purpose web pages. 

"The days of jamming 500 students into lecture halls supervised by graduate students and charging them several hundred dollars per credit hour for the 'privilege' of learning in this fashion may be numbered."