In 2000, Baen Books created a free internet library as an experiment in publishing. The “First Librarian“, author Eric Flint, kept a proto-blog of the experience. I found it educational. Of particular interest is the intro, #1, #6, #10, and #11, as these all confirm that free downloads boost sales, both for books and music.
Cory [...]
Apparently not much. iSummit seems a great and noble venture, but it seems to be more disconnected from reality with each passing year.
It completely ignores the aspect of access. It’s being held in Japan this year. In Japan! Can you afford a ticket to Japan? Didn’t think so. You can try to attend the Second [...]
One of the required subjects for a computer science degree at UNISA is CEM101, which is apparently equivalent to the ICDL.
I already know how to sling a keyboard, so I did the CEM101 module through recognition of prior learning (RPL). The handling fee for the RPL process was R 145.00 (payable once only), and [...]
As if our country isn’t ignorant enough already. See PFangirl’s post for details.
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is supposed to be a novel for young adults (a code phrase for late teens), but I said to myself: “Myself, you’re an adult, you’re young, you should read this”. I was right.
Little Brother is awesome. It’s 1984 combined with Steal This Book combined with Hackers - upgraded and updated for [...]
There’s recently been quite a buzz about the recent research that suggests that fluid intelligence can be improved by training working memory.
If the original article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (or PotNAoSotUSoA as it’s more affectionately known) is too technical for you, try the articles [...]
After having cleaned out 50 spam comments in one day, I decided that enough was enough.
So, after 10 minutes of hard Googling, coding and theme adaption, my blog is finally making use of the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin.
It’s quick, it’s simple, and it Kills Spam Bots Dead because it makes them Eat Flaming Death.
I’ve written about open content learning materials before. In that post I mentioned that I’ve been trying to talk to people in UNISA for a while now, and on Tuesday (3 June), I finally got the promised meeting.
I met with Prof. Wendy Kilfoil (Director of the Institute for Curriculum and Learning Development), and Mr Deon [...]
