
Andraz Tori from Zemanta gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo about making it easier for people to create content, which made my ears perk up.

I’m involved with an exciting conference happening in December about how games can be used for more than just entertainment. I’ll be talking about Operation: Sleeper Cell (which you should check out if you haven’t - and if you’ve ever wanted to try out an alternate reality game, it’s also an easy one to get into).

Liveblog from the OU Vice-Chancellor’s speech to Council, 26 Sep 2008
Largish audience heading in - interesting to be watching from outside rather than the inside.
Introduction from the Pro-Chancellor, Chair of Council.

The Register article about plagiarism this week has fuelled a lot of discussion - 58 comments on the original article as I type. The OU student in question found that one of the papers used in the course included plagiarised content.