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The formula is:

1. Take a hard, tough-nut-to-crack problem, like making education not suck.

2. Take something that's traditionally been behing high-priced walled gardens (ie universities) and offer it online for cheap or free.

3. Put an extremely intelligent, visionary man at the head of it all.

This isn't Pandora for cats. This is making quality education more widely available and making the process to do so transparent and honest. Bravo, Khan.


Paying a competitive salary (like Khan does) also helps!


What is this Pandora for Cats you speak of, can you give meow information?


...its most dedicated users...had nowhere to complain about the interruption.

Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?


Some of my Facebook friends actually went to Facebook to mention that Twitter was down. I wonder what would happen if both Twitter and Facebook were down simultaneously...


That sounds like a plot for an attack! =P Probably mass SMS.. iMessage/BBM, something like that?


Everyone reverts back to using email...


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