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It was announced last weekend that the temporary replacement of Jacques Villeneuve by the excellent Polish driver Robert Kubica was made permanent throughout this year and next. Kubica replaced Villeneuve at the Hungry GP and the team was pretty clear in their interest in Kubica and apparently Villeneuve forced the team to commit to one… Continue Reading No Jacques in F1.

On Monday I found out that BlackBoard (Bb) had been issued a patent on eLearning. Bb recently bought WebCt inc. which makes the learning management system that consumes most of my days at work. I was dismissive of it until I learnt about the subsequent lawsuits against Desire2Learn (D2L) the day afterwards. As far as… Continue Reading BlackBoard goes Metallica

If you don’t know now you know – Net Neutrality is important and we don’t want big US telcos to be able to double charge and create an internet class system. The cool cats at www.wearetheweb.org are doing their part. Watch the video.

I found this video in Google Video today – It’s CBC radio’s the current with video added from an old episode of The Transformers. I can only assume it was created by Cambrian House, the topic of the original CBC video based on the attibution Google video has. In this episode of The Current Maureen… Continue Reading CBC’s The Current, Transformers/GI Joe style

Apparently people are interested in this thing. Digg.com has been mentioned numerous times at every conference I’ve been to this summer: Random people talked about it in presentations, Keynotes including Tim Bray of Sun, BlackBoard’a CEO Michael Chasen and David Weinberger (of the Cluetrain Manifesto) all mentioned it. At WebCT’s Chicago conference this year someone… Continue Reading digg.com