Everyone shouldn’t have a blog, but everybody should have a blog

Steven comments that he’s reversed his feeling that everyone should have a blog (and pleeeeeeease get that page layout fixed!) and I agree… as we are using them (publication, conversation) they certainly shouldn’t. But, nonetheless, everyone should have a blog. The problem is conceiving of blogs as we do as these public utterances to audiences …

Innovate’s annoying email login

I’ve always really enjoyed the accessible, open and innovative publishing of, um, well, Innovate (and The Technology Source) but this dumb login-for-article system they’ve got in place is not only annoying… but also very bad for business. Put simply, research and writing without avenues for publication, discussion and, in essence, an audience is sadly pretty …

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CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » Today’s JotsIs it me or has Msr CDB gone all RSS extracty, not that I’m complaining loikes but would love to know the thinking… Moodle, LJ & Flickr in EFLFascinating stuff about using these tools in EFL… EFLers are ALWAYS ahead of the crowd, dunno why, they just are! BLOGSAVVY …

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Checking Out Other University's Blog Hosting ServicesHello there, these are coming up thick and fast now… didn’t even know about Blogs@Case, Uthink, Caddie and Warwick only crept up on me about a week ago. This guy rates them out of 5, excellent, I want to play too! Google Sitemaps with WordPress – Social PatternsYup, I’m …

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The future of blogs – the sources of our infosphereTom claims I’m dancing around the real issue, teh semantic web, which I am, but the thing is noone really gets that Tom, people get this, it’s convcrete & here. Blogs are the semantic web. Ascilite 2005 Conference – Brisbane – December!I’m hoping to go to …

Relaxation

Well, after Blogtalk, ethics proposals and a bit more I actually have a few days to relax, write abstracts and put stuff together for ASCILITE, Uses of Blogs and the Radio Conference 2005… hmmmm… looking forward to Xmas :o) Oh, I almost forgot about ODLAA… bjash!

Folksonomies

Ok, granted, tags are great when we’re describing audio, images and more but I can tell you what the problem with folksonomies is when it comes to text. We’ve already folksonomied it by writing about it. Is that understood? Good. Now can we move on?

The future of blogs

I’ve had a crack at figuring out what the future of blogs might look like over at Blogsavvy… just a small go at it but I feel like this is what is going to happen…

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FeedWordPressOr we could try to use this? feed on feeds – aboutThis is another cool aggregating tool. I need to figure out how I can get it to trawl a particular site looking for feeds though (i.e. automatically adding wpmu feeds to a river-of news for that particular install) The Podcast Network :: The Personal …