http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:17:29 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1217 Social Bookmarking site Ma.gnolia experienced a disastrous database corruption which has brought the site down. On February 17, Ma.gnolia owner Larry Halff announced that the data could not be recovered. He answered some interesting questions about Ma.gnolia and cloud computing services in general in this interview. It is long, but I really think the video [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:31 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1056 Sometimes I think I am becoming unpopular on some educational technology websites. I have a keen distrust of free hosted services that are touted by so may web evangelists and those that frequent such sites. Some edtech sites almost seem like clearinghouses for free Internet based services. I have often challenged the use of such [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/feed/ 8