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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

On the conference's social network site the conference backchannel tool Twitter is announced as "what it means to embrace a truly free and open stream of communication in the digital age." But when the audience begins to turn into a mob, does tweckling not resemble villagers throwing rotten fruit at the man in the stocks?

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

Now, the torrent of information generated by the ever increasing stream of new developments has rendered this impossible. The lower section, Stock , is for keepers. Other tools I could not do without: Google Desktop Search: find anything on your computer or web sites really, really fast.

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