Today I realized that I did not know half about the Luxembourgish transport system. As I went to the airport early enough for students to be on their way to school, I encountered tens of bus lines that I had never seen before. It seemed like the regular city and cross-country busses are only about [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Learntrends = trendy learning?
The conference Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008, commonly abbreviated “learntrends”, the second conference of its kind, took place entirely online from November 17 till 21, 2000. On top of being an online conference, it was a free event.
Jay Cross, Tony Karrer, and George Siemens were the main organizers of this conference and had put [...]
Save the search results
A Twitter message by Will Richardson alerted me to the new feature on Google’s result pages on Friday. Since then others, e.g. Philipp Lenssen, have reported about the new feature. On the official Google blog one can read:
Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on [...]
Lost in Technology
This past week was an online feast I had not experienced before. I tried to catch as many sessions of the conference Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 at which great minds shared their knowledge, experience, and thoughts. I will blog about that over the weekend a bit more trying to summarize important points for [...]
Almost half the population
On November 3, 2008, the 3 billionth picture was uploaded to flickr generating 16,762 views for the photo until now. Had I not subscribed to Bryan Alexander’s blog this memorable moment would have passed unnoticed for me. Now I can pause for a second and contemplate a little bit.
If every person on earth had uploaded [...]
