Education: Education authorities described as the five worst in London appeal for real support, rather than naming and shaming from the schools commissioner. [Guardian Unlimited]

Post Spectacular Tourism - I'm a big fan and now I have a name for it ...... so much tourism seems to be about ticking off "bagged" sites or human-zoo voyeurism so this seems better than "all tourism is bad". But do Ryanair fly to these places?

"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal". Guy Debord wrote that more than 40 years ago in The Society Of the Spectacle - and today's mass tourism proves him depressingly right. Is there an alternative? The answer is: maybe. A workshop in Narva-Joesuu, in far eastern Estonia, considered "post-spectacular travel" as one if its scenarios for this fascinating if troubled place. Doors of Perception is helping to organise Spark!, a series of workshops at small towns in transition in five European countries: Forssa, Finland; Valdambra, Italy; Narva-Joessu, Estonia (where we were last week); Cray Valley, UK; Nox Island, Denmark. The website (which UIAH is hosting) is not in full-swing yet, but a few early results are here [doors of perception]

CNet has interviewed Jeff Hawkins, creator of the Palm Pilot and co-founder of Handspring. Like Psion, he concluded that the market was going to move from PDAs to mobile communicators such as the Treo. That optionally comes with a RIM Blackberry-style keyboard, and he now thinks keyboards are the coming thing....
[onlineblog.com]