
I’m on the train back from ALT-C 2008 in Leeds. I went to ALT-C three years ago and this is the first time I’ve been back since. Times have changed, as I guess have I. Back in 2005, I was fairly new to the whole world of learning technology. I knew almost nobody and the conference felt large.

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.