Well, I’ve had a fun weekend, um, not. What with the growth of edublogs.org and the funny bandwidth deals going on here I figured I had to do something about it and after a bit of research came upon Surpass hosting. Four days later of trying trying trying to get some simple accounts transferred, bugger …
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Gonzo Academia
“In Gonzo Academia there is no room for format. No space for formula. No writing to any guidelines. You basically have to consume whatever information you need as fast as you can before stuffing yourself into a pressure cooker and hoping some form of genius to percolate onto the page.” [The adventures of the 14 …
How is blogging going to influence my academic career?
It’s a good question, and one I find myself asking a fair bit these days… and in that vein via Brian this article is well worth a read. It goes over the old ground of non-seriousness, subversive tendencies and that awful article from the chronicle about how bloggers need not apply and then says: But …
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Bandwidth solution & Things you should NEVER do in Elluminate Live!
Well, the solution to bandwidth problems is fairly simple… I’m moving to a host that’ll give me a lot more! Bear with me though, especially if you’re an edu, uni or learner blogs user… to compensate all you guys I’ll be adding 50% more storage to your file upload space! And you’re not going to …
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The gravatar is dead, long live the gravatar!
Well that was a short lived experiment. The research, ahem, would suggest that unless you’re a certified geek you generally don’t seem to have a gravatar and the odds are that you’re not going to bother either. I kinda suspected this would be the case, reckon that it’s tied into the whole digital identity stuff, …
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The adventures of the 14 day Thesis
Someone who is obviously completely off their rocker but doing it in a damn stylish manner has set up a blog at uniblogs.org entitled: “The adventures of the 14 day Thesis”. The premise being that they’re going to write a thesis in, um, 14 days. Well, it’s almost time but to be frank I don’t …
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The Ten Evilest and Mostly Unethical Blogging Hacks ยป Jack of All BlogsQuality! Stephen Powell: Personal Learning Environments (PLE)This is interesting… sounds a lot like Elgg! Wirearchy :: As Blogging Matures (A Bit) …" I believe that blogging is a large and substantial social phenomenon, in which people do online, in an interconnected environment of …
HT Australia 1 Uruguay 0 – Australia Win AET Penalties 4-2
Game so far by the Age… wish I was in Fed square! Hasn’t happened in my life time but if they can add another or make it to penalties Australia could be on the way to the World Cup… come on! Gah, 1-0 at FT… Kewell should have scored, plenty of other opportunities but the …
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The Journal of Community Informatics – Community Networking and Public Benefits & Free internet as an agent of community transformation
A couple of very interesting articles that I haven’t had time to really get into yet but which I think, from first glance, might prove valuable to consider for anyone who’s thinking about social networking and communities: Community Networking and Public Benefits In general, healthy networks seem to result in improved community welfare i.e., they …
TILT TV – Teachers Improving Learning with Technology
This is a great find from someone who’s also getting stuck into edublogs.org and learnerblogs.org. Fundamentally TILT TV is a broadcast (or vidcast) of funky tools and teachers doing cool stuff with technology (sort of like edugadget just with moving pictures) From the site: The vidcast that is created by teachers for teachers. Do you …
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