On being a connector.

The number of educators paying attention to George Siemens' ideas is growing.

Teaching Connectivism. Teaching Connectivism: "My personal knowledge is really a network of correspondences and connections. I learn by interacting with a huge network of individuals and learning objects (some are available online, some offline)." [Connectivism Blog]

12:46:16 PM    

George Siemens points us to an LMS Field Guide.

Kind of basic, and no specific reviews of products, but possibly useful to managers.

LMS Field Guide (.pdf) - short report on learning management system product features, pricing models, implementation, etc. The statistics are a bit depressing (and quite indicative of how organizations view an LMS). What did survey respondents view as most valuable aspects of an LMS? Testing, reporting, and compliance tracking.

12:41:27 PM    

Finding Google WiFi in all the wrong places.

Om Malik says that Google's wifi service can be found in London. Is this how their rollout works, a global Easter Egg hunt? [Scripting News]

12:37:02 PM    

Continuing discussion of Author's Guild suit against Google over Digital Rights.

Electronic Frontier Foundation:   Author's Guild Sues Google.

Author's Guild Sues Google  —  As many have reported, the Author's Guild has filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit [PDF] against Google in the Southern District of New York.  The dispute, as we've mentioned before, involves Google Print.  —  I believe Google has a strong fair use defense here.

Source:   Electronic Frontier Foundation
Link:   http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003992.php

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11:11:51 AM    

Feedburner could be a service worth getting to know.

Feedburner Releases Important Stats.

Feedburner released important statistics on their service yesterday. If you are unfamiliar with Feedburner, check out our original profile.

The graphs show total feeds managed by feedburner and total subscribers to those feeds. Both show hockey-stick like growth that looks similar to data released by Technorati (see item no. 2 in a past TechCrunch weekly summary).

I believe that these stats are very relevant to the blogospere in general. We are in a steadily increasing tide, that is increasing at an increasing rate. All boats are rising.

Feedburner now manages about 100,000 feeds and about 4.3 million people subscribe to those feeds. The growth rates are obvious:

Paul Kedrosky notes that the number of feed subscribers is doubling approximately every 60 days.

What I’d like to know is what percentage pay the $5 per month for the Pro product. If it’s around 5% (that’s my guess), then FeedBurner revenues (not including advertising) would be about $300,000 or so annualized.

The only thing left to ask is, do you have your FeedBurner sticker yet? I do.

We’ve previously written about Feedburner on September 7, 2005, July 15, 2005, July 4, 2005 and June 14, 2005.

Tags: feedburner, rss, atom, blogs, blogging, stats, statistics, techcrunch, web2.0, web+2.0

11:05:46 AM    

Some technology is not for everyone (apparently).

OK, so the video clip thing is kind of doubtful, where quality and length of video is concerned. But IF you know that a lot of the people you are trying to reach are in the demographic for which this phone is intended, why wouldn't you try to exploit the phone features? Doesn't mean you have to buy one yourself. Put up the AK-47.

My New Cell Phone? Doubtful!.

Hmmm. Looking at the feature list, you might think the saliva is beginning to build. After all, the LG VX9800 looks like one juicy morsel when it comes to geek-enabled cell phonery. Figure the QWERTY keypad, bluetooth, MP3 playback capability, EV-DO support, miniSD expansion slot...what more do I want?

 

How about a real PDA OS? I don't particularly care which one, just something that gives me enough juice to do something interesting. And useful.

 

And I swear, this new video clip thing is going to wind up forcing me to climb onto a rooftop somewhere with an AK-47. On one side you've got vendors like Verso building applications to allow Verizon-types to block Web traffic like P2P, free VoIP and similar stuff because they're ostensibly "bandwidth drains."

 

And then you read about great new "products" from those same ISPs (like Verizon with this freaking phone) that allow you to sign up for what amounts to tiny, low-rez video snippets of various bits of TV content?! So not only are you wasting more time and bandwidth on something that can't entertain you for more than 10 seconds; you're also paying for something you get with better quality for free at home?!  How is this anything but a bandwidth drain?

 

Kills me.

11:03:36 AM    

No man is an island.

Helen Chen is writing about students entering universities, but we are all learning to have the same confidence in and reliance on technology. My guess is that you will find much of what she has to say is germane to your situation with older workers and learners. After all, if we wire up the world for the new members of the workforce, the old fudds are going to have no choice but to go along for the ride. Who knows, the OF may find they like being "always-on."

Reflection in an Always-on Learning Environment: Has It Been Turned Off? - Helen L. Chen, Campus Technology. Who are the students entering today's colleges and universities? Sometimes referred to as the Net Generation or Millennials (students born in or after 1982), we know that this is a group that has never known a world without computers and the Internet.... [Online Learning Update]

10:58:39 AM    

Lots of good things to look through.

Robin Good comes out with these lists every week, and usually there are only one or two that would be useful to home-based entrepreneurs. But this week I could imagine uses for every one of his picks, so here is the link to his list. Have fun!

Robin Good's New Media Picks of the Week: n°18.

Here is my new media picks selection for this week. Check out what I have found: Cross-platform File Sharing and Synchronization Online collaboration across email, calendaring and contacts Recording tool captures any video playing on your screen Graphic visualization of delicious contents RSS one-stop reference Personal Publishing and CMS service Multimedia search engine Social bookmarking site Create short intelligible URLs from long ones One search box to search all of Google services New media picks…

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10:54:11 AM    

WiFi Internet service coming from Google?

Google Apparently Planning Wi-Fi Service. As earlier rumored (and even earlier foretold), Google is preparing to launch its own wireless internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's Website on Tuesday,... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing]

10:48:09 AM