
At last week’s Web 2.0 Expo Alan Patrick from Broadsight (strategy consultancy on Web 2.0) concluded his talk saying ‘Don’t make the user the free lunch’. He pointed out throughout his talk that free content causes problems.

It has been a very interesting year for social networking, microblogging, the practice of sharing short messages with followers has really caught on and Twitter has certainly enjoyed the most buzz of 2008.

I've signed up for George Siemens and Stephen Downes massive online open course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge" which starts next week.

Bennett Lincoff has a really interesting article at IP Watch suggesting a new business model for the music industry.

The Open University is on iTunes U! As Denise Kirkpatrick, Pro-VC for Teaching and Learning says in the press release,

It's not been a good week for Twitter. Most of Tuesday it seemed to be down, and then most of Wednesday evening too. One comes to expect short outages in Twitter, you almost regard them with affection, that bespeak of its cottage industry status (I guess they've gone to put another dollar in the meter). But these outages have been very frustrating.