Should North Carolina teachers' pay be tied to time of service and credentialing? Article argues for tying teachers' pay to performance.

Very interesting. Mozilla, the folks behind Firefox, are experimenting with a service called Ubiquity that will allow average folks like you and me to create our own mashups on the fly.

You knew I'd be interested in this after my go-round with our school district re. textbooks. Obviously geared towards college students, still good for anyone who has a student and who's school doesn't provide textbooks for every kid.

I hope this practice doesn't take off with other ISPs. Comcast is going to limit users to 250 gig a month. That's crap.

This is hysterical: a Firefox plug-in that keeps you from seeing poorly written comments on Youtube. I'd love to see this rolled out for all commenting systems, although that would deprive me of one of the more entertaining parts of my day.

Biz Week article that does a pretty good job of explaining why all corporations need to be engaged in social media.

This is actually a pretty important story. Google is the one single player, outside of maybe Microsoft, who can get average folks to use RSS. I've said for a long time that the biggest problem with RSS is that it's hard to explain to non-techies. Google's move here should catapult the usage of RSS to common usage in the near future.