After wak­ing up very, very late this morn­ing, I’m off to bed now. I don’t want to sleep through three alarms again!

I’ve just read a truly excel­lent art­icle by Stephen Downes entitled “Five Choices: Or, Why I Won’t Give Dave Pell Twelve Dol­lars” about why Con­tent does not and will not sell on the net. He says:

Con­tent didn’t sell on the net, and it won’t sell on the net, because the premises of the rejoin­der are false: people some­times don’t deserve to be paid, even if they work hard, because the mar­ket doesn’t work that way. And people will pro­duce con­tent, even if they don’t get paid for the con­tent. The online evid­ence for this is over­whelm­ing, as two bil­lion free web pages will attest.

This is a really inter­est­ing read. Stephen runs a web site that is “inten­ded to rep­res­ent the next gen­er­a­tion of learn­ing”. I’m very inter­ested in edu­ca­tion, includ­ing online learn­ing, I’ll have to keep an eye on Stepehen’s Web

Recom­men­ded.