Looking for an aggregator for your new iPhone? iPhone + Aggregator = iGag! iGag has: out of the box support for del.icio.us, Flickr, Digg, Last.FM, and several other popular services support for adding generic RSS or Atom feeds and OPML files (online or uploaded) OpenID support for authentication (so most of you won’t even need to create a new account) support for grouped feeds for easier browsing (click the screenshot above to see detail) and those fancy, slidey user interactions you’ve come to expect from the iPhone. I liked my iPhone before, but this is the killer iPhone app as far as I’m concerned. :) Truth in advertising requires me to disclose that this is a classic “scratch your own itch” piece of software by Justin Ball and myself.

A fun service over at http://www.careerdistinction.com/ measures your “online identity” on a scale of 1 to 10. I did pretty well: Your online identity score is 10 out of a possible score of 10. Congratulations. You are digitally distinct. This is the nirvana of online identity. Keep up the good work, and remember that your Google results can change as fast as the weather in New England. It was pretty crazy to see that in a Google search for “David Wiley” 25 of the first 30 results were about me (i.e. there were only five results about some other David Wiley in the first three pages of Google results). What does this mean at the end of the day? I’m not sure… but my wife will have to work extra hard to help me get my already oversized head through the doorway for a while. :p

Bekir passed his dissertation defense on Friday! Congrats, Dr. Gur! Bekir did his dissertation in the “multiple paper” format (which I encourage all my students to use), so he should be ready to submit the three papers for publication much more quickly than usual. I’ll put links here when preprints go up. But for now, CONGRATS!

My Freebase invites post was so popular, I’m offering Pownce invites now. Thanks to the dozens of you who asked for Freebase invites; sorry I couldn’t hook you all up.

My Freebase invites post was so popular, I’m offering Pownce invites now. Thanks to the dozens of you who asked for Freebase invites; sorry I couldn’t hook you all up.

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Preparing for my out-of-body presentation in Taiwan this week (I’m at home sick - grrr), I kept thinking about the OER space until I actually started visualizing it as a kind of outer space, with little OER bits floating around aimlessly. It was pretty fun to think about until I realized that the primoridal OER soup, the “OER Nebula” is actually being pulled in several directions by several different sources of gravity: ...

You may be somewhat surprised to hear that talk on the UNESCO IIEP list, set up for the discussion of open educational resources, has temporarily turned to the topic of open versus free versus libre again. :) Here is my contribution to the conversation, in which I quote and than “adapt” John Adams… ...

Derek Keats, who I greatly respect and admire, responded to my earlier post with this reply: ...