Travel is a great learning opportunity. First, of course, is learning the history, geography, and culture of a place. The cuisine of a new place is a particular personal interest. Of course, you can also learn about politics, economics, and more as well.  . Another meta-lesson. find the most interesting people are those who are interested in others. MORE >>

Via Howard Rheingold , Face the Rear: An Illustration of Social Influence rings true like a bell. love playing with “elevator etiquette&# by not standing the way the group is. Last month at eLearning Africa in Dar es Salaam, our hotel had one elevator out, and tons of people moving in and out of their rooms on the same schedule. Body to body. MORE >>

Last week, Colleen reported on the email Amazon sent to all California-resident Amazon Associates warning them that if California enacted a law imposing new taxes on Internet sales their participation in the Associates affiliate sales program would be terminated. received my notification of termination Wednesday. moving in this direction. Context. MORE >>

I fell out of the habit, but here are the Signals from last week. If you want to get my daily roundup of stories worth paying attention to, get the RSS here , or sign up in email at the top right of the page here. Monday Signal: Is Google Too Big? Tuesday Signal: Will Big Data Save Us? We Can Pray. Signal: A Good Day for the Open Internet. MORE >>

Here are my AppGap posts for June. am also writing in another Corante blog, FastForward (see right side bar for links), The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for June. There will be more in July. Conference.   MORE >>