Olpcnews.com Website Review

your independent news, information, commentary, and discussion of one laptop per child and the xo laptop. if you are looking for cutting edge commentary and de*p an*lysis of one laptop per child movements around the world, or really, any and all uses of technology in education, please direct your attention to: today we're announcing that we have decided to shut down olpc news. that means we'll stop publishing new content but we won't take the in retrospective this is something that i should have done six months ago when wayan first brought this up. or at the very least i should post to do so because reading through it now it actually says almost everything i'd want to say in a goodbye post. so rather than repeat myself, my next thought was to take you on a quick trip down memory lane into how i got started on this rollercoaster ride with olpc news and olpc 7 ½ years ago. however 100 words in i realized that i was about to really repeat myself because i wrote all that up 2 ½ years ago when i formally took over the site and announced the post-wayan era as such all that really remains to be said here is to thank all those who made olpc happen (else, we would have had nothing to write about) and everyone who contributed to, commented (and yes, that also includes you mephisto), shared, and read olpc news and for making the looking at google an*lytics shows that we've had more than 2.2 million unique visitors and over 7.3 million pageviews since the site was and this final piece we'll have published 1842 articles which received a total of more than 16,000 comments. aside of all these numbers i think it's fair to say that olpc news has had a significant impact on the discussions around olpc and within the wider ict for education (ict4e) community (though i'm well aware that there's a range of opinions on whether that impact was positive or negative;-). as for myself: what i wrote in that happy new year post back on december 31 still very much applies: > the core challenge that drives me remains figuring out how to > integrate information and communication technologies in education in