Tuesday, October 28, 2008

eLearning is getting more and more mainstream

... and the field is becoming flatter for all participants.

One implication is that Educational Leaders don't even have to mandate that the IT department exclusively handle their institution's Learning Management Systems. I'm thinking LMS design, development, and deployment outsourcing. IQity seems to offer something interesting especially for those in Ohio. I'd like to think that it matters little whether or not your school is based there. "Bring the learning to the learner" sounds like a good tag line. Or is it just me?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Credit Default Swaps: $62 trillion market

I don't want to sound pessimistic but it sure sounds like the next "big" thing. Now where's the money?

More on Financial Meltdown 101.

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Image courtesy of Reserve Bank of India.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Blogging is about taking a stand

... and being open to criticism too. Social change seems so evasive, doesn't it? Not anymore. Perhaps this is a good start. What do you think?

Thursday, October 09, 2008

How do you deal with with comment spam?

My BubbleShare photos are  currently under seige.   And  reCAPTCHA  can't seem to even help.  

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Time to rethink how to value intangibles?


In the light of what's going on globally, Shava Nerad seems to wax worrisome: "(A) huge amount of the wealth creation since the invention of the transistor is intangible, and since we have no way to quantify and account for innovation, creativity, excellent records of technical teams, and so on, the market has tried to find tricks to value them, mostly through the stocks of information economy firms. "

Follow her thoughts here.