Well what can we say about our absence, nothing except we are going to get back on it and start being lot more present and trying to do a bit more thinking in public.

So just to start with a couple of things.

One, we love Weebly. This site is made on Weebly, but to be honest we love any website that enables you to build another website. Square Space does just that, and my goodness it looks beautiful and is ridiculously flexible, so much so that when when first saw it in action we thought we'd have to go and rebuild our site in it straight away. Instead of that rather rash move, we are doing some messing about with it to see how it might well work some of the people we are working for. So far I'd say it's a winner, so big thanks to Charles for that tip-off, he has a rather lovely squarespace website and an immensely readable and philiosphical blog that looks at what businesses need to do to survive.

On a very different tangent I just want to bring your attention to an event that happened a little while back but that is of much interest to us. It was called Hacking Education and was set up by Union Square Ventures, namely Fred Wilson, Albert Wenger and Brad Burnham. Brad has recently done a thorough round up post of the day and published the transcript of the whole event. The day looks fascinating and touched many area that Simon and myself are particularly excited about.

There are discussions about how technology is changing the nature of collaboration, about how the experience of formal learning is becoming unbundled in front of our eyes and the implications of that process on society. And, another one of our hobbyhorses, the relationship between gaming and learning, with some fairly mindblowing ideas from Katie Salen, including a new school based opening this year based on game dynamics.

Justin

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