I just read about Nixty at Wired Campus. Sounds like an interesting idea. Provide an elearning platform for people to build courses on, one that uses open content.

I really appreciate that our library cannot get a copy of a recent issue of Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning without charging me for it. Turns out that our library's subscription through Academic Search Premiere only covers 1999 through 18 months ago, and they cannot find a copy through ILL.

It's been awhile since I have blogged regularly, and I'm ready to do so again now that other obligations have lessened.

BBC News reports on a web developer who is building his own nuclear fusion reactor in his home in NYC.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, is now available for free download. This open textbook collection includes sixteen essays written for the first year composition classroom, all released under Creative Commons licenses, all written by writing teachers for students.

In Together or Apart: Collaboration Models for Technical Writing, Tom Johnson reflects on using a book sprint for producing technical documentation and in community projects. This would be an interesting approach for producing an open textbook at a conference.