Over the past month I have returned to Twitter. Previously I had been using Jaiku, mainly because of their channel feature. But with so many of my colleagues using Twitter, it was time to make the switch. I have been amazed at the value Twitter has provided for me professionally. The one thing I didn’t  Read more »

Conceptually, most people think of the web as a collection of sites with each site containing individual pages. The page is the atom of the web, the smallest unit of the web. Sites and pages are connected by creating hyperlinks between pages. This

I’m off to Vermont to give the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation. I’ll be talking about the future of the web and using a David Letterman style top 10 list as the framework. So what do you think is

A common refrain at HighEdWebDev2007 and other conferences I’ve attended recently has been the frustration many of us feel when trying to convince management that “radical transparency” is a good idea, that allowing students to blog without editoria

I’ve been a fan of MeeboMe for quite some time. (See my earlier post on MeeBoMe). Now Meebo has launched a new service called Meebo Rooms for group chats.  While chat is nothing new, there are a number of interesting features including a foc