John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about iBooks Author, Apple's real and stated motivations for entering the textbook market, and what really matters in education. This is followed by a long, ill-considered rant about Wikipedia. (Warning: original research, no neutral point of view.)
Links for this episode:
- Apple sued by Toronto lawyer over stolen MacBook, iPhone - thestar.com
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia
- Apple's textbook plan feels like a blast from the past - Macworld
- Holding out for an ePub hero - Macworld
- Wishing on an ePub: Five hopes for Apple's rumored e-publishing software - Macworld
- Glazman Responds to My Response - Daring Fireball
- The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets – Baldur Bjarnason
- High Schools Are Step One Of Two - McKay Thomas
- Apple's wager - Ars Technica
- Citogenesis - xkcd
- No original research - Wikipedia
- What counts as a reliable source? - Wikipedia
- Using Game Design to Improve My Classroom - YouTube
- The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit - Wired
- Cow Clicker - Wikipedia
- Articles for deletion: FTFF - Wikipedia
- Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
- Stare at the red dot…
- Dan Benjamin - Wikipedia
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