Alastair Wells is one of those guys you should stay away from if you want an easy life, but unfortunately he teaches just up the road from me at The Netherhall School which makes him pretty hard to avoid. He has this bad habit, you see, of telling you how wonderful [insert elearning product here]…

Ten minutes ago we signed up our 500th teacher to Yacapaca. Assuming every signed-up teacher is in a UK secondary school, and only one teacher per school has subscribed, then we are 10% of the way to our target to be in every secondary school in the UK. Woohoo!

I don’t have it in for iPods, or Apple, or Samsung, honest, but something about this news item really brought me up short. Samsung are investing $33Bn in new factories to build memory chips. According to these articles (1)(2)(3), those chips are soon to arrive in an iPod near you. Apple, it is said, has…

CHASE is the Cambridge Association of Hi-tech Entrepreneurs and they have invited me to present on Chalkface on Tuesday 4th Oct. Details. The event is open to non-members and of course I would be delighted to see you there. That’s our second mention in Cambridge Network this week. Here’s the other. Shame they missed the…

Yacapaca reached a very significant milestone last night. For the first time, somebody thought it was worthwhile nicking stuff off it. Well, not nicking, strictly speaking. Somebody who’d had a free 100-unit subscription and used it up, set up a second free sub via the new self-signup page and moved all her student records across,…