No Learning for Unauthorised Persons « Douchy’s Weblog I was involved in a conversation the other day, with a teacher, who expressed the sentiment that she would not be willing to share her work with people from other schools. It’s a sentiment that is probably not uncommon. But it does make me sad. I’ve spent a fair bit of time over this weekend thinking about why it is that teachers often take that position. We all laughed. Or perhaps they don’t want other teachers getting hold of their Intellectual property. Maybe some teachers are just so entrenched in 20th Century, industrial-age, knowledge-worker mindsets, that they don’t even know why they don’t share their resources with the world. Personally I have found that when you give your work away, you get things back in return. Isn’t that why we became teachers – to help students learn, enjoy learning and experience success in learning? I guess we all guard our IP a little.
Sign In Don't have a Microsoft account? Sign up now Microsoft account What's this? Email or phone Password Can't access your account? Sign in with a single-use code Warren Buffett On Housing Market: I Was 'Dead Wrong' OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that he was "dead wrong" with a prediction that the U.S. housing market would begin to recover by now, but he remains optimistic about the nation's economy. In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett said he is sure housing will recover eventually and help bring down the nation's unemployment rate. But he did not predict when that will happen. Investors eagerly await the letter from Buffett, 81, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, who built a roughly $44 billion fortune by following a steadfast, no-nonsense investing strategy. Buffett said housing "remains in a depression of its own," but he predicted, in typical plainspoken style, that the housing market will come back because some human factors can't be denied forever. "People may postpone hitching up during uncertain times, but eventually hormones take over," he wrote. The housing prediction proved painful for Berkshire Hathaway. Online:
The Culture of Collaboration :: Evan Rosen Dave Trott's Blog | Campaign blogs | Advertising & creative blogs Martin Scorsese On Vision In Hollywood Pay TV piracy hits News David Cottle with, inset from top, Ray Adams and Reuven Hasak. While News Corp has consistently denied any role in fostering pay TV piracy, emails obtained by the Financial Review contradict court testimony given by Operational Security officers as well as statements by News lawyers in the past three weeks. Photo: Louie Douvis Neil Chenoweth A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry. The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring. A four-year investigation by The Australian Financial Review has revealed a global trail of corporate dirty tricks directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp known as Operational Security.