Last Friday I had a very interesting talk with a guy called Pablo Arrieta, a teacher at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. I didn't agree with many of his views, but I pretty much just let him talk without controversy (it'll come some other time), since it wasn't a debate but a conversation with students, where he was the guest speaker and I was just part of the audience. Mostly, he showed some cool tools. Among them was Scribd, of which I'd read in Stephen Downes blog as well as Jay Cross'.
It seems interesting for online publishing, especially when you don't have time to do all the design and have a Word (or the like) document you want to show inside a browser window.
Here's as example of what it looks like displaying one of the documents Jay uploaded:
