Fascinating, thorough, thought provoking, broad and intelligent overview of open source, social networks, online learning, long tails and all of that kind of stuff. Delivered in the most inaccessible, un-open-source, huge and annoying format possible (I mean, if you’re going to have slides then at least use the Adobe slide function???) Eh? Update: Hey, it’s …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Blogads Survey results
Fascinating data from an enormous pool (30k) of respondants.
Podcast Survey – go take it!
Cameron Reilly needs your help to get up to 1000 respondents in his podcast survey to extrapolate meaningful stats, so if you’re feeling kind and generous pop over there and take the survey!
pLog picker
Interesting stuff, Syamsul (who must have the most detailed about page I’ve ever seen!) picks pLog for his schools multi-blog rollout program because: * My school doesn’t host our own web servers, so systems like Blojsom or Roller are no-nos * We can’t afford to pay a lot of money for it, so commercial systems …
To stream or not to stream – an audio lectures discussion
Ever since I managed to get the ‘subscribe to comments by email’ function going on this blog I’ve loved it more than any other feature I’ve installed, especially as I get to have good discussions like this one with the mysterious ‘N’ on the subject of audio-streaming, universities, podcasting and research and development in technology. …
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Towards a pedagogy of nearness
Ulises A. Mejias is one heck of a thinker when it comes to communication and the online. I’ve been waiting to go through my note-riddled copies of Online Discourse (.pdf) and Distributed Textual Discourse (.pdf) for some time now, perhaps not putting anything here because I don’t feel like a blog post would do it …
Technotati Tags: “Post” “about” “Technorati” “Tags”
Via Full-Circle, I ran into this (Kubrick at Blogspot!) introduction and overview to Technorati tags which is nothing if not comprehensive. Problem is that I still don’t get it… even with photo / audio / video stuff all you really need is for them to be titled well and in context and you’ve got tags-a-plenty, …
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How can I find out the size of my domain directories?
Desperate last measure as it seems I can’t find this out any other way…. are there any applications out there which will let me see how many MB is stored in each of my web directories, i.e. incsub.org/association/ or incsub.org/wpmu/? Lordy, I’d even pay! Any help much grovilingly appreciated….
Why you have wasted all that money you’ve spent on streaming lectures
OK, so you’ve got the best streaming lecture system up and running in the country: every theatre is equipped with simple recording devices, lecturers have easy access to handheld recorders to pop in their top pockets when they’re speaking, it all feeds into a beautiful seamless system that stores & streams an emails you the …
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7 Guidelines for effective corporate elearning
Soulsoup is one and to celebrate Anol publishes an about page and (My) 7 Guidelines for corporate elearning. Here are the subheadings, it’s well worth a read: 1. The business world is not about learning, it’s about doing business. 2. First collaboration, then learning 3. Off-the Shelf content is so yesterday, Courseware is dead. 4. …
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