oishii! Update

Just a note to say that today I turned on some new functionality in oishii!, the tool I use to watch del.icio.us. oishii! displays the most recently added sites which 30 or more users have bookmarked, and now provides links to three similar sites (where similarity is based on tagging behavior in del.icio.us). oishii! updates … Read more

Etienne Wenger on Teaching and Learning

In Stephen’s notes on Wenger’s ALT-C talk, Etienne makes this absolutely wonderful comment: It’s a shift, from learning being viewed as a (vertical) relation between a provider and a recipient, to a (horizontal) peer to peer relationship of negotiation of multual relevance. Best definition of meaningful learning I’ve heard in ages. I’ve often thought that … Read more

ESR to Work for M$

This one was just too funny not to repost. Enjoy this conversation between a Microsoft recruiter and Eric Raymond (Founder and Emeritus President of the Open Source Initiative) in which M$ mistakenly makes Eric a job offer.