Light up some classrooms! DonorsChoose.org Challenge

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Email isn't dead - It's only sleeping ...

Blogs, wiki's and IM displace use of broadcast email for group working communication. Email is a great medium for one to one - back and forth - communication, but it's a terrible medium for group collaboration. Clay Shirky says:

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Enterprise 2.0 - Letting hypertext out of its box

In every previous generation hypertext system, the ability to read, search, link and communicate came with a terrible price: it might work well, but only if you were willing to put everything you wanted to work with into some sealed box, and convince everyone you wanted to work with to use the same box. From the earliest days of Vannevar Bush's Memex, the vision was universal, but the implementation was a siloed. As Ted Nelson once said on the folly of using computers to simulate paper, Xerox PARC's first paper simulation was followed by Apple's contribution:

But the Web over the universal Internet turned the world-view of Lotus Notes (and the Sharepoint stack) inside out: no proprietary client, no proprietary representation, no requirement to work inside the proprietary box - and every motivation to make anything valuable you create or deliver compatible with the least common denominator representation outside the box - http addressable HTML.

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