This video, put out by Flat World Knowledge, LLC describes their approach to social learning. It's sort of the lulu/digg of university textbooks.

Clay Shirky talks about what motivates people to participate in social media creation.

 Thanks Christin for pointing us to the Smithsonian’s response to the Colbert portrait phenomenon… from www.youtube.com

In our business (which can be characterized by altruistic words such as free, open, access, and education for all) we often argue that people should just give it up (the content they authored) for online access. That works for us, and makes sense in the academic world, but maybe it doesn't make sense every where else. The writer's guild in Hollywood is on strike. They are fighting to have Viacom (for example) ante up for content they write that gets distributed online. Viacom (for example) gets millions

My nephew Justin was a pirate for Halloween. He's on the road to stardom, I tell you.

See a pretty cool demo of how religion has spread over the last several thousand years in 90 seconds