Google Docs for Group

Make sure the Professor Economist has you correct gmail address so you can receive the documents he posts in Google Docs.

Prof Econ's Group Calendar

To subscribe to the calendar for this group, in Google Calendar, choose Add on the Calendar menu on the left. Then choose Add a Public calendar. The choose Add by url and paste the following into the text box.

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/0d69gn9222id2ref0ei68bf0pg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Then press the Add button. That should do it. The next time you go to the group iGoogle page, you should see the calendar info displayed correctly.

Economist blogs

Via Dani Rodrik's blog, here is a site that lists Economist blogs and ranks them for popularity.

Online Learning Retreat

Next Thursday and Friday is the online learning retreat. Thursday night is the reception and opening plenary at Seibel. The rest of the conference on Friday is in the Illini Union, in ballrooms A, B, and C.

Here we go

We'll use this space for announcements to the Group and any other random thoughts I have. I will try to keep these fairly brief but informative.

and the third

encore une fois

here is the second post

hello again