It's called a classroom.
Everything that Meg is talking about should already be done in class; simply funneling the discourse on to the web is only a partial solution and moot by itself. If education at all levels was given adequate funding and not seen merely as tool for career advancement, by students and teachers alike, people might not feel so shitty about it. I'm pretty sure it's not what she meant, but Meg's comments could also be interpreted as "Who needs school when you've got Blogger?" Meanwhile, universities everywhere are
reinventing themselves as search engines.
Does History Matter?
"in an increasingly technologically oriented present?" A discussion between Jack Granatstein and Michael Ignatieff
This Morning talks to Michael Ignatieff
about his new book
Virtual War. "The combatants [in Kosovo] were mainly strike pilots and computer programmers, watching nations were mobilized as television audiences and in the end the victory was merely virtual." (real audio)
Web Reference : Disabling the Context Menu
Step right up, kids! It's another episode of "Everything you know is wrong." Aaarrgh. I have no coffee grinder, I spent three hours tracking down a fucking semi-colon this morning (a thousand curses on you MSHTML.DLL) and now someone wants to show the world how to disable all the hooks in the operating system. Yeah, yeah, yeah...the browser is the operating system. We are all just one big interconnected mind too, right?