Great post on "Educational Social Overlay Networks"

http://terrya.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/hello-world/

The only post so far in this new edublogs.org blog (oh the marvels of Technorati, like it or not here come your readers, Terry A. . Not so much a response to my posting on the false dichotomy that is being set up between Moodle and ELGG, instead it just takes that as its starting point for an extended musing on what the relationship could and should be between institutional provided systems and the users social networks, which by definition can and do cross all sorts of boundries. Personally, I find this approach a lot more palatable and mature than a lot of the all-or-nothing-it-must-all-be-open diatribes I come across these days, but maybe that’s just me being a good Canadian, trying to mediate between poles, and be a reformer, not a revolutionary. – SWL