Saturday, March 15, 2008

SkillSoft sees profits soar in Q4

SkillSoft sees profits soar in Q4 (Courtesy of Electric News)

E-learning firm SkillSoft posted another great set of quarterly results with
revenues up by 34 percent and profits nearly quadrupling.

Full story at http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=10124073

Monday, March 03, 2008

UCD takes first steps as Second Life university

From Silicon Republic

03.03.2008 UCD takes first steps as Second Life university
University College Dublin made history today as the first Irish university ever to hold a lecture in the online virtual world Second Life, with Professor Mary Burke from the school of information and library studies who lectured to students from the virtual James Joyce library. …

Blog Editor's question - an advantage of using IT is that you can avoid doing some of the physical activities required to normally access information (eg. walk to the library). Why would you then go to the trouble of trying to virtually replicate these experiences? Comments below welcome.