iLearnium...interesting but whats the goal here?

Found this new site iLearnium. Has some interesting features like a blog river and a ratings and reviews section but I have to wonder about the compelling reason for me to contribute to this. Now I want to be clear, I have nothing against this effort - in fact I applaud it - I do have to ask though, like Stephen Downes did,  what's my motivation?

I have my blog and I occasionally write for the Learning Circuits Blog, and I can review products there - although not grouped as nicely as at iLearnium - although I can just use a tag like "reviews" on my blog. I could use Yahoo! Pipes to build a widget that pulls from a bunch of sources and aggregates them into one feed....I'm not trying to rain on the parade but rather say  - what need is not being met? Maybe its not user-generated reviews maybe its inside info from the companies themselves...maybe its an anonymous place where customers can bitch about products and/or services...there may be something there...I hope they find it...

Comments

[Laura H]

Wow, agree the blog river is a pretty cool way to take a quick scan of what's going on out there. I found the other links to look more like vendor ads, and when I dove into the ratings, er . . . there were none. Yet. Nonetheless, I'll check back in the future, and in the meantime, waiting for pages to load gave me plenty of time to refill my wine glass.

[Craig Graham]

Mark, I answer your questions here:

http://www.ilearnium.com/content/blogcategory/73/118/