Kudos to Karl

October 17, 2007

Kudos to Karl

First Karl Fisch, original creator of Did You Know?, gets profiled in the Rocky Mountain News. Then he gets mentioned on the CNN Saturday Morning show (at the end). Oh, and there's the national award he received this week. Woohoo!

What's next, Karl? The New York Times? Or Boing Boing?

Congrats (and sorry I outed you)!

Oct 17, 2007 11:05:38 PM | Leadership and Vision

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Most likely none of those things would've happened if you hadn't remixed and reposted the presentation. So I'm holding you personally responsible for all of this.

I'm not sure about the Times or Boing Boing, I'm gonna hold out for Secretary of Education. My first 100 days would include a "No Blogger Left Behind" proposal . . .

Posted by: Karl Fisch | October 18, 2007 at 08:03 AM

Congrats to both of you for opening the eyes of some many administrators and teachers.

I just came across an interesting post at Seth Godin's site: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/the-wikipedia-g.html

Posted by: Guy Fandango | October 19, 2007 at 11:34 AM

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