Zengestrom (a bloody great blog discovery via Stephen!) has some fascinating thoughts about why social networking services just haven’t kicked off. I wrote a few paragraphs on this in Centered Communication and still feel like there’s some validity in them in that without effective consistent and subvertable presentation (a la blogs) there’s little networking that …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Tag Literacy & Distributed Classification Systems
If I could produce the same quality of work as Ulises seems to do on such a regular basis then I’d be, um, Ulises probably… either his latest offering, Tag Literacy, is well worth a look. A few select quotes: “Decisions regarding how to classify things which used to be undertaken by humans in collectivity …
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WordPress plugins ahoy
The WordPress plugin competition is a GREAT idea not only because there are so many great plugins coming out but also because it makes you realise what great ones are already there. A few which I’ve been sampling and delighting in are: Top 10: Basically allows you to count number of views for each post …
Beautiful Machines 3
Lindon: “There’s also a kind of Zen calm about these ones”
Blackboard & Journal LX
Well, whaddya know, as of June 2 2004 Blackboard has been flogging their own blogging tool: “Journal LX is a powerful learning extension that enables instructors and students to create, share and comment on blogs within a course.” Maybe there was some sort of confusion at the users conference, when “Melissa Chotiner (Blackboard PR Manager …
LAMS
Had an interesting chat with Stephen Powell last week at a coffee shop in Flinders Lane here in Melb. Of the many things we talked about, one was LAMS, which he attended the opening of and was impressed by the people behind it. So, reading Derek’s article this morning (yes, I am spending at least …
ANZAC Day (& my birthday)
25th April each year is Anzac Day in Australia. A chance to reflect on the tragedy those lost in war. It’s also always a public holiday, which IMO is a very good thing (Remembrance day isn’t in England) as it accords some of the importance that reflecting on these horrors should. It’s also my birthday… …
Community Design
It’s probably never going to happen, but if Design for Community II ever comes about (and I think it so should) this excellent reflection on the history of wikipedia should definitely be a chapter.
Generic Teaching & Learning Online Surveys
Does anyone know of the location of any teaching and learning online surveys that are for pretty broad use (i.e. not specific to particular technologies or programs)? Don’t have to be web-based, if you’ve got a document and you could email it to me I’d be eternally grateful!!! (james [at] incsub.org) Thankyou :o)
Lessons for consultants
Steve Crescenzo shares it from the heart, blogging at its best. BTW, today has somehow become Dave Winer day, not sure how but it seems to have happened.