'"My friends, family and acquaintances are all on Facebook, where they add up to a bustling community I enjoy being part of. More than any particular feature that Mark Zuckerberg and company have cooked up, it’s the people in my life that make Facebook, well, Facebook. The conversations are less warm, personal and interesting. MORE >>

'Peter Suber points out that FaceBook, Yahoo, Elsevier and Yahoo have joined the NetChoice.org lobby that has issued a clarion call against open access that blurs the line between lies and gibberish. Peter blows the statements apart, leaving nothing but clean air and a whiff of ozone. But they have it all bollixed up. MORE >>

'I’m constantly asked by Learning & Development professionals where they can learn more about social learning. First of all I guess we need to be quite clear what we mean by the term “social learning:â?¦ Social learning MORE >>

'I recently participated in an industry panel on Redefining BI & Analytics in the Cloud at a conference in New York.  In my opinion, data science should be viewed as a multidisciplinary evolution from business intelligence and analytics.  Simple, linear systems, such as those found in classical mechanics , are much easier for us to deal with.  MORE >>

'After six years on the VRM case, it seems obvious to me that individuals need to be the points of integration for their own data — and of data about them, held by companies. So, to help with that, here are a few starters: Quantified self data. The list goes on, and can get very long — especially when you integrate it with the other stuff below. MORE >>