A quick note: Futurelab has a free magazine, Vision, that you can subscribe to or view online. My summer/autumn copy just arrived, and it is quite good. The current issue focuses on the future of digital learning and their impacts on youth. Read the article… Comments

Posts will be sparse over the next couple weeks as I’ll be busy: revisiting Budapest, spelunking about Moravian wine cellars, investigating the towns and castles of Slovakia… oh, and presenting at next week’s JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary…! Comments

Dan, the guy behind Higher Ed Chat, is starting-up a Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing. He writes: There will be a few categories: 1. “They Paid Someone to Design This?!” A list of the most poorly designed college websites. 2. “This Video is Supposed to Inspire… Whom?” A list of the cheesiest and most [...]

Just a quick note… Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant compiled a list of his take at what the top 30 education blogs might look like, based on Technorati rankings. He ranks himself at #24. Congratulations, Scott! The list, itself, is interesting. Read his post, then download the Excel file. Comments

Victoria News recently published an interesting article on Singularitarians in Canada whcih compared Singularitarianism with religion: At first blush, Singularitarianism may seem like a religion and has even earned from critics the label “Rapture of the Nerds.” But Singularitarianism differs from religion in one crucial aspect: its belief doesn’t depend on a supernatural power influencing [...]