The view out my office window is always spectacular, but today it’s spectacular for a different reason. Not seven miles away, a fast moving fire has broken out and is sending up dramatic plumes of smoke that are drifting over the Denver metro area. So far, no homes are threatened.

When you are following what you love, Life comes to you. Frank Orrall

Seen in the (very numerous and very lengthy) comments to a recent blog post: I wish I had time to read all the comments, so if someone already mentioned this, then I second it.

Below are some resources on this European-based effort (sadly, I haven’t seen much uptake here in the States): Animated Tutorial Resources: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/LAMS+Tutorials Demo Server (feel free to log in using AAU / alpine): http://demo.lamscommunity.org/lams/index.do LAMS Document Resources: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/ Will Richardson is a high-school teacher turned edublogger and consultant that I had on my Milken Conference panel from 2 years ago. … Here’s a link to his 12-step recipe for building a social learning platform (using Drupal as the technology): http://wt.similibus.org/2008/02/26/recipe-for-a-social-learning-platform-in-drupal-1/ And in the participatory eLearning space, there’s “LearnHub” (all Ajax-y, built on Ruby On Rails; headed by two Toronto-based entrepreneurs with funding by India-based Educomp Solutions Ltd.): http://learnhub.com/about

Covering ideas contained in his upcoming new book as well as some recent publications , JSB offers great insight into how the perfect storm of open software and “web 2.0″ tools of wikis, blogs, and social networking sites are combining to — possibly for the first time ever — drive and make possible the social learning ideas first covered in ” The Social Life of Information .” Of course, a treasure-trove of all-things JSB can be found at his web site, www.johnseelybrown.com .

As noted in a Slashdot comment to the article, “Is Social Network Fatigue Coming?“:
American culture is more mobile than ever. It’s normal go to high school in one city, go to college in another city, and get a job in a third city. And even if you don’t move around that much, some of your [...]

is this. (’cause it pair go so nicely with my 5th Gen iPod and currently-gathering-dust-pair of NHT SuperZeroes.)

As part of upgrading the speaker system for our office Mac, I ordered a set of the new Bose Companion 5 Multimedia speakers. Now, Bose is one of the most revered and hated, love-em or hate-em brands on the market today. I don’t pretend to have the “ear” of a true audiophile, but I do [...]

I came, I saw, I ran.
Quick: Lance Armstrong and I share a very important milestone. What is it?
Answer: We both ran our first marathon this year. He in a couple seconds under 3 hours, and me, in a couple minutes over 4 hours. I’m sure we’d be best friends if we hung out.

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There are only 2 short weeks left before I hook up with 40,000 of my closest friends and go for a 26.2 mile scenic run of Chicago neighborhoods.
On one hand, I’m a bit nervous: after turning in Personal Bests this summer for a 5K run, sprint Tri, and Olympic Tri, I’ve let my training fall [...]