I was invited to sit in on the first ever college class on Facebook: Creating Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook taught by Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Dave McClure of 500 Hats. With over 100 people registered for the new course, even a new location change [...]

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.)
The focus [...]

I have a TiVo. Actually, it’s not a real TiVo, but a TiVo-enhanced DirecTV receiver. I just tell everyone I have a TiVo because it’s just easier that way. It has the TiVo interface (and sounds), but the difference is that I don’t get all of the features of a real TiVo [...]