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First NYC Digital Learning Meetup
Albert Wenger – May 18, 2010
Tonight I am giving a talk at the First NYC Digital Learning Meetup. The event is organized by the folks from Startl, which aims to support and accelerate the development of companies that apply technology to enable learner-centered education. I [...] Read more
Privacy and the Internet
Albert Wenger – May 17, 2010
I woke up this morning thinking that I should write a post on privacy, having read Fred’s post and danah boyd’s two posts over the weekend and Charlie’s post this morning. Then I realized, I should probably check what I [...] Read more
Business Plan Competitions
Albert Wenger – May 11, 2010
It is very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Chris Dixon, but the other day Chris tweeted I will be heading up to Boston tomorrow to judge MIT’s 100K competition and have a pretty different take on it. The [...] Read more
Appreciating Mastery
Albert Wenger – May 10, 2010
I love learning new things and have written about learning on this blog several times before. But I am also a fan of observing mastery. I seem to remember reading in Gladwell’s Outliers, that mastery requires at least 10,000 hours [...] Read more
Hiring Update #4
Albert Wenger – May 7, 2010
As of yesterday we have completed our 75+ phone screens. If you have applied but have not heard from us at all by now, then we somehow missed you and should contact us immediately.We are now in the process of [...] Read more
HTML5, View Source and Innovation
Albert Wenger – May 6, 2010
I believe that PDF and Flash will hang around for quite some time. They are too widespread to disappear quickly. But I am excited about the rise of HTML5 and the gradual replacement of these closed formats. For instance, Scribd’s [...] Read more
TV and Internet Disruption
Albert Wenger – May 5, 2010
Bill Gurley has a must-read post up on how the $32B of affiliate fees will slow down the Internet disruption of the TV industry. I have one addition and one amplification for Bill’s excellent post. First, the addition. More than [...] Read more
Becoming a Yoga Fan
Albert Wenger – May 4, 2010
In January I posted about staying fit (http://continuations.com/post/347328558/staying-fit) and mentioned that we started family yoga on weekends. While the kids’ participation has waned a bit, Susan and I have been quite consistent. In the past, I didn’t understand why some [...] Read more
Please Make it Hard(er) for Me to Cause (Email) Disasters
Albert Wenger – Apr 30, 2010
Unix has some very powerful commands available. For instance, the simple combination of “rm -rf” if invoked by a superuser at the root would pretty much delete every file and directory on the system. Because such power is available systems [...] Read more