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The past few days I’ve been poking around social networks. Wikipedia lists 124 major social networking sites. I belong to five of them:

LinkedIn (where I connect with colleagues)
MySpace (where I find old classmates)
Twitter (where I read and post minutia…and you can follow me)
Geni (where I try to get my family to use the Internet [...]

The more I read about personal learning spaces, the latest information architecture, social networking, and education, the more it seems that these fields are converging around the same set of concepts: personalization, customization, self-expression, affirmation, socialization, and navigation.
LearnHub is a great example of how these concepts can be combined for learning. Featured in TechCrunch yesterday, LearnHub [...]

Oh, MIT. You and the bleeding edge.
Today, MIT’s Technology Review published Adapting Websites to Users–an article about a marketing experiment to increase Web sales by customizing content delivery to user. How? You might ask. By analyzing a user’s first few clicks on the site, matching it with a prescribed cognitive style and then selecting a [...]

This post has the honor of being the first post on this blog. It’s feeling pretty smug about it. I’ll be adding other posts to put this one in its place.