Small karras. Of course, he nails it: Cluetrain influenced an entire generation of net-heads (as generations are reckoned in what we called “Internet time&# back in the paleolithic era), for better and for worse. The long gist: First things first: the original, core material stands up remarkably well. As updates go, Cluetrain 2.0 Indeed. MORE >>

In 2006 I started the Learning Tools Directory.  Since that time some tools have come. and gone, and others. have changed, adding more features and becoming more integrated.  So I have now completely  overhauled, updatd and re-organised the Directory into 12 categories.  The Directory index appears here but the 12 categories are listed below. MORE >>

Here is one result of a labour of love in which I have been involved for the past three-plus years. have been translating (from French) and contributing to the work of Michel Cartier , whom in my opinion is the francophone world’s answer to Alvin Toffler nd Marshall McLuhan rolled into one. Up to us, he says.  Which will it be ? MORE >>

Summary of a talk by John Paul Shen, head of the Nokia research Center, Palo Alto, at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. There is a collision of two different cultures (open, closed) and four different industries (internet, computers, mobile phone, cellular networks). These combine with form factors – eg., MORE >>

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