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Stephen Downes, Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman - The UnKeynote
Instead of the usual keynote address, the three of us turned the talk - and the agenda - over to an unsuspecting audience at the BCEd Online Annual Conference. Here is the audio of the session I recorded. Don't miss D'Arcy Norman's debriefing of the event, including the link to the web-based chat we had running on the big scrOLDaily on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - A Conversation With Stephen Downes
Audio recording - here is the MP3 audio file (about 10 meg) - of a session I hosted at the BCEd Online Annual Conference. on Thursday. Without really a title or a description - and yet still with a full room - I pretty much had free reign and used the time to talk about some of the things I have been thinking about during my hiatus, and especially about the relevance of learning and the role education should play in empowering, rather than diminishing, learners. It's a bit OLDaily on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Driving While Stupid Ups Risk
We've always known it; now an exhaustive study confirms it: People who talk on cell phones, eat food, fiddle with their CD players or apply makeup while driving are far more likely to cause an accident than people who simply pay attention and drive. From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Who's Rights Are More Important?
Does a company's right to protect its trade secrets outweigh a journalist's right to shield the identity of a news source? A case moving through the appellate courts, pitting Apple against three online journalists, may provide the answer. From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

Webmonkey Mailbox: SEO What?
In this week's mailbox, readers respond to our SEO coverage. Plus, Ning's nice for novices, but not for the marketplace. In Webmonkey. From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

A Long, Strange Trip to Orgasm
Our sex-tech columnist takes adult pogo stick the Jack Hammer Johnson for a ride. It's still not doing much for her. Commentary by Regina Lynn. This column is available as a . From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Laps Are the New Desks
The epidemic of mobile computing has reached a fever pitch, spawning unprecedented options for bringing your desktop with you wherever you go. From Forbes.com. From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Attack of the Viral Campaign Ads
It's the hottest new trend in political advertising: Lampoon your opponent in an online cartoon, and hope it goes viral. By Steve Friess. From Wired News on April 21, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Seymour St. John, 94, Leader of Choate School for 26 Years, Dies
The Rev. Seymour St. John was the headmaster of the Choate School, steering it through turbulent changes in the 1960's and early 70's. From New York Times: Education on April 21, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

Connecticut Senate Votes to Ban Soda Sales in the State's Schools
The legislation would allow school vending machines and stores to stock only low-fat and nonfat milk, soy or rice milk, and 100 percent fruit and vegetable drinks. From New York Times: Education on April 21, 2006 at 3:45 a.m..

Lessons from eLearning Guild in Boston
This week I've been taking part in The Annual Gathering of the eLearning Guild in Boston. The Gathering combines the eLearning Producer Conference and the Learning Management Colloquium. The latter event was not about Learning Management Systems. Rather, it was a meeting for learning managers, about sixty or seventy of them. I divided my time [...] From Internet Time Blog on April 21, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Earth Day Piques Interest in Environment-Related Searches
Earth-conscious day generates interest in the Web's environmental information. From ClickZ Stats on April 21, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..