Today, thanks to my reflect:ed subscribers, we made it back to the front page of tinyletter.com – the service that I am using to send this newsletter out.
The interesting thing is that reflect:ed is the only subscription based newsletter amongst the 15 “hot” newsletters which shows two things. One is that I am apparently cutting edge and two that a paid newsletter can be as successful as a free one.
So let’s talk a bit about the new culture of paying on the internet.
When I turned on my PC today I got suprised by a ton of new followers on Twitter and a massive retweet wave of Mashable’s post on how Starbucks is planning to monetize on their free WiFi.
First, I thought the old Guy Kawasaki rule would apply: Tweet about Twitter or other things people care about and you get retweets. But scanning through the tweets I finally found the real source: MC Hammer!
This morning I read a very interesting article in the NY Times.
[...] Education moved from a bespoke craft to a more industrial approach. [...]
[...] Still, one-to-one tutoring is the learning method proven time and again to sharply improve a student’s measured performance. A good human tutor can deliver a “home run,” educationally and statistically, explained Christopher J. Dede, a professor of education at Harvard University. [...]
Very encouraging for the classic one-on-one private teacher / tutor, right? I will get back to this point of the article later because there is more to talk about.
