e-Literate had an outage of several days due to…irreconcilable differences with my now former web host. I have moved to Fused Network. Even in these early days, the difference in quality of service is night and day. I think I’m going to be happy here.
You may have noticed that the site looks different. Again. I have had a hard time finding a theme that I’m happy with. My criteria aren’t actually that complicated:

I’ll be giving a talk for UMassOnline on the morning of Thursday, August 5th in Shrewsbury, MA. The title of the talk is “W(h)ither the LMS?” You can read my guest post on the UMassOnline blog here and register for the event here.

I’m going to be posting a video interview of Desire2Learn CEO John Baker, probably in the next 24 hours. It seems likely that I’ll be doing more interviews in the future. I’m discovering that I have a particular philosophy about how to do the interviews, which is in line with my attitudes toward guest posts and technology demo posts. I’m very lucky to have e-Literate as a platform to get information out to a pretty large audience. There are lots of people out there who are very smart and have very interesting things to say that deserve to be heard. So part of what I try to do here is to help them reach a broader audience.
Here’s how I approach that goal:

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When I was in college, I was very fortunate to have Rob Kapilow as a choral conductor and music history professor. Rob has an uncanny knack for boiling down the brilliance of a piece of music so that anyone could hear it in just a short snippet. “Anyone else would have written this,” he’d say, playing four or five bars of familiar but uninspiring music, “but Mozart wrote this.” He’d play the same four or five bars, changing one note, or one chord, or one rhythm, and suddenly you would understand. It was a revelation every time. Rob has gone on to become a star on NPR and PBS, with a series called What Makes It Great.

I’m experimenting with writing a non-work blog, which I’m calling e-Mediate. In addition to the reasons that I list there for starting it, I consider it to be another experiment in trying to get the Web 2.0 thing from the inside of it. (I don’t buy the whole Digital Native thing; even geezers like me should be able to learn this stuff.)??
I’m not sure whether I’m going to find it valuable enough to keep up, so for now, I’m leaving the commenting off. If you have something urgent to say to me about it, feel free to email me, write me on Facebook or <sigh> tweet me. It’s not like I’m hard to reach.

I am aware that my RSS feed is wacked. I’m investigating. Please be patient.
Sorry.
Update:??It appears that the latest version of my related posts plug-in went rogue on me. I have turned it off for the time being, and that seems to have solved the problem. If you have any more trouble in the near future, please let me know by posting a comment on this post.

I’ll be leaving for EDUCAUSE tomorrow morning and will be there until Friday morning. I’m not giving any presentations this year other than a 15-minute presentation on Oracle SAIP at the Desire2Learn booth, but I have lots of meetings and typical goings on. If you’re going to be in Orlando this week and want to track me down, just ping me.

I’ll be at OpenWorld—a first for me. I’m not presenting anything this time, but I will be at the booth periodically. If you’re going and want to catch up with me, feel free to ping me: michael+at+mfeldstein+dot+com. Also, I’m going to try out my new Flip camera which, I must say, is the coolest toy I’ve owned that was not manufactured by Apple in a long time. In the future, I’ll be doing videos of the conferences I go to, as a substitute for live-blogging (which I hate doing and suck at). My thought right now is that I’ll do one introductory video for context of each conference and then the rest will be interviews with attendees, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’m in the process of switching over servers and I know that some of you are getting spammed over and over again with my last post as a result. My best guess is that this is a result of the change in DNS servers propagating unevenly across the internet. So particularly some web-based readers (like Google’s) that are big enough to be hitting multiple servers frequently for updates are seeing the post from the old server and the new one as different and are republishing every time they hit a different server. If I’m right about this, the situation should calm down in the next day or two.
Sorry.