Ebooks, Libraries and HarperCollins

I must confess from the very beginning that I am not familiar with internal dealings between publishers and authors or with the libraries. Nevertheless, I support the HarperCollins policy. Seeing how the readership of ebook is growing, allowing public libraries to offer loans of ebooks without limit is detrimental to any good business venture. CNN [...]

Cathy’s Key

Looking at the Cathy’s Key gives some sense of a combination of social media. I think it is a learning context eventhough it will appeal to a particular demographic rather than general. Particularly the young. The graphics are good, though I think it is a little over done and that is why it will not [...]

No Electricity, No Technology!

The scenario of ‘no electricity’ is not new to me. In fact, I have endured more than a day of blackout. For those of us who come from countries that power supply is not stable this has been a misery experience. I travelled to my country, Nigeria in spring this year. I had to charge [...]

Facebook and I

Web 2.0 provides great functionalities and openness to connection with the world. Some applications of the web 2.0 that I am familiar with are Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Flickr and MySpace. I have an account with all except Flickr and MySpace. I am not too familiar with Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious and CiteULike. RSS [...]

Uses of Blogs and Wikis for Instructions and Learning: Benefits and Drawbacks

Blogs and Wikis are very important additions to the learning process. Although people have different purposes for operating a blog or Wiki, one single uniting factor is for the purpose of sharing information. Duffy and Bruns (2006) opine that blogs and wikis explore flexible and mobile technologies for collaborative and (co)creative purposes, as well as [...]

Nigeria Ranks Second in Internet Usage in Africa

Latest statistics show Nigeria ranking second in Internet Usage in the whole of Africa after Egypt. In a 2009 data released by Internet World Stats, the number of Internet Users in Nigeria has risen from 200, 000 in 2000 to about 10,000,000 at the end of 2008. This shows an increase in Internet usage of [...]