Don’t get me wrong, I like a good wiki as much as the next fella, but can we please get over sentiments like these: “A wiki is a group blog that can be edited by its readers… Wikis are more like conversations” I’d love to be at the wikisym, I get entirely what Socialtext and …
Yearly Archives: 2005
Communities, networks and a better world
One of the less advantageous by-products of a trip back to the UK is that it tends to find me smoking again, and not in a ‘cor look at him go’ sense but more in the traditional, smelly and slightly dysfunctional one. However, one of the by-products of this is that I spend much more …
Weblog Usability by Nielsen
Quite fun to see Nielsen getting into weblog usability… should really just go check our the problogger but still pretty interesting… how do you measure up? Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits …
Method man
Was it the specials that sang ‘how do you do it, how do you do it to me?’ – More and larger image
*The* Comment Spam Solution – WP-Gatekeeper
D’Arcy is having a good time with spam but I’m having an even better one. After a couple of weeks of being off and being deluged despite the host of spam blockers I’ve got installed here I stumbled across WP-Gatekeeper and, well, as long as you’re prepared to answer a really rather simple question in …
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Educational Violence
“If students are being put through standardized testing and being forced to submit to institutionally defined learning objectives without their informed consent, that is violence. To what extent is any given educator an agent of violence? Why is the foundation of our educational institutions one of control and performance rather than love and respect? What …
Bugger
Well that’s next years April 1st gag scuppered. Still, at least it saves me saying ‘well, they’re moreorless the same’. You know who I’d absolutely *love* to be working for now… any of these basically (bar the obvious two). Seriously though, in the next 10 years this’ll be the key to their undoing (of sorts)… …
Google Reader
Google reader looks very cool but as long as I can’t import my xml subscriptions from bloglines… I ‘aint trying it and even then.. it doesn’t look like it matches/extends/simplifies the functionality in any way. Sometimes I wonder why people don’t get it… just copy whatever Mark Fletcher (Yahoo Groups, Bloglines… could you think of …
Blogging meetup tomorrow
Am meeting tomorrow with Josie of EdTechUK, Ben of Elgg and Peter of Schoolblogs… three people that I’m seriously looking forward to having a chat with!!! So if you’re in Birmingham tomorrow (Saturday 7th) and can make it to the IKON gallery for 3… why don’t ya come along too.
Update…
This is the third day after the op and everything is going as planned which is wonderful… still a few more days to make sure things are working but – fingers crossed, touch wood etc. etc. – the worst is well over. Thanks for all the emails, comments and support… you dunno how special you …