New innovation! Blackboard!

Tori and I attended Sydney University Live! (marketing-speak for “an open day”) today, and were bemused to hear how some lecturers fondly referred to their use of technology, citing in particular a product known as “Blackboard“. It seems everything old is new again — or, to cite Richard Glover, “They’ve reinvented the wheel – and now (gasp) it’s got corners.”

Later: Oh, and to preempt any criticism of Richard’s article, I’d suggest listening to ThePodcastNetwork’s interview with him some time after it was published. To me at least, Richard seems well reasoned and fair, whilst TPN’s Cameron Reilly is clearly pursuing an agenda and aims to attack Richard on the basis of his vocation as a professional radio host.