“Kevin Kelly is not a dumb guy — far from it actually. As the founding executive editor of Wired and one of the people who helped build The Well, among the earliest online communities, he has done a good job of seeing what is coming next for decades. But last year, he had what sounded…
“Five years ago, Southern New Hampshire University was a 2,000-student private school struggling against declining enrollment, poor name recognition, and teetering finances. Today, it’s the Amazon.com of higher education. The school’s burgeoning online division has 180 different programs with an enrollment of 34,000.” Read the rest of “The Amazon of Higher Education” at Slate.com. I…
Sherry Turkle has a nice piece in The New York Times about the dangers of “The Documented Life” that fits right into some of my thinking about the need to live more of a plugged/unplugged life. Here’s a key passage: “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just…
With the holidays finally past – they do seem to linger, don’t they? – I thought it was time to do another quarterly update. The big news of late is that I’ve started my own publishing company, Flying Raven Press, a small operation which will publish some of my own work as well as a…