digital media writing

So I'm hanging in the Seattle airport thinking about my Educause experience this year and wondering about the future of Academic Technology, that strange hybrid entity emerging out of web design, data management, librarianship, CS, education and the work of various academic misfits--including myself. Instructional Computing has turned into a thing in it own right, with the more advanced course management systems attempting to model collaborative pedagogical principles and to incorporate the most widely adopted tools under the umbrella of university authentication and authorization schemes.