Teacherspayteachers.com is a website where teachers post lesson plans, homework assignments, and any other proprietary material they have spent time creating for their classes and can earn money by selling it on the open market. The prices are very reasonable (a WWII history document detailing the entire war was available for $2.00) and it seems to be sprouting up a little community around the economy they've built there.

I have been looking for a platform to use to sell old iTests without incurring physical reproduction costs and this might be it. But I posted about the website here simply because I am fascinated by the determined route the internet is taking toward micropayment items that will payback over a large volume of consumers. One knock on the internet is that while you've got all this free information at your fingertips, the quality sometimes isn't there ... but when you introduce capitalism to the mix, the quality gets restored. So resources like this teacher website above are effectively bridging the gap between readily-available information and accuracy in reporting, moving the internet to a better place than it was 5 years ago.

Separately, you need to hear "Balancing The World," the new major-label debut single by Birmingham native Eliot Morris. John told me about this guy a while back and just today in Beaufort I hear the DJ on the radio talking up this guy in introducing his single. His MySpace page is here and his single is available for purchase on iTunes.