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Leigh Blackall comments on the WebCT accessibility lawsuit and outlines some more open alternatives. But the overhead of learning the tools is substantial. Which is fine if that’s what the course is about - ie if the medium really is the message. But until we can expect universal facility with a standard set of [...]

I’m no fan of WebCT (or “vendor-lock-in” of any kind) but in their discussion of a lawsuit against an institution using WebCT (on the basis of non-accessible e-learning) FLOSSE Posse say:
“In WebCT they probably seriously think that learning happens by scanning content with your eyes and then saving it in your personal hard disk located [...]

democracyarsenal.org: North Korea: Unravelling already?
I agree with Dan Kervick’s comment that “it doesn’t really matter who delivers first as long as the deliveries both take place”.
In fact the common statement makes no precise commitment as to the timing of either delivery except that they should both be incremental and effectively simultaneous.
First we have “The [...]

The brains business | Economist.com
is an article identified by Stephen Downes as “the plan for destroying” public university systems.

Must look and see if this ColLib thing is any use

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don’t dumb me down is the article referred to in the previously referenced article by Styhphen Downes

actually, what I like most about this Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Don’t Dumb Me Down posting, is Stephen’s “don’t be afraid to be obscure” - which I may end up taking as my motto!

This Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Web Site Link Checker might be useful for the MathWebResources project

AlterNet: Blogs: Peek: SPECIAL: What led to Katrina?

AlterNet: How to Help - at last something useful rather than sensational

A Neighbourhood of Infinity: The Sleeping Beauty Problem

Crawford Killian reports the advent of more Hurricane Blogs. My own sense is that blog references to Katrina have been slow to show up - at least within the edtech arena.

Writing for the Web: The World’s Greatest Online Journalism

NOLA.com: Hurricane Katrina 2005 coverage from the NewOrleans local newspaper