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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
As I contemplate a weekend without email - not even my old email - because the Exchange server is down (probably because of the latest version of Klez), and as I think, yet again, how much happier I was before the Institute-mandated Microsoft Outlook, I read this article (the web, at least, works), and thought out loud: oh yes, people DO have their favorite tools. Everybody wants to create the standard interface: the portal or repository everyone will use, the common IM tool, the standardized browser: and yet tools are probably the most personal of all our possessions. And internet tools probably the most personal of all. Now, to see whether I have email yet...

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