About 6 months ago, Facebook made a huge decision.

Mark Zuckerberg finally agreed to let adds appear in Facebook's Newsfeed.

"It drives me crazy when people write stuff and assert that we're doing something because the goal is to make a lot of money," he told the Wall Street Journal. But guess what?

Facebook is going to make a lot of money.

This month I have started a workshop on how to use Facebook to gather students. You can join my online workshop anytime, but start now so you get full benefit of sharing with the teachers and students in the hidden group in Facebook. As I usually do, below are some of the messages I communicated to group members within FaceBook over Xmas and New Year. More personally directed comments are locked away for members only to respect their privacy. Some deep stuff is happening in there. Why not jump in today?

Hieidaira is a hidden secret of Kyoto.

For 10 years it was the home of my family.

Set on one of Japan’s most sacred mountains, it is the victim of a millennium prejudice in Kyoto that it is simply “too far away” to seriously make it home. Once that was true. A trek down the mountain was an event you planned weeks ahead - to-day it takes 10 minutes in a car to arrive at the bustling tourist area of Ginka-kuji.