Digging up the news – Mar. 27, 2006Good Digg article. Businesspundit: Punishment, Self-Interest, and Cooperation – Why the Altruism of Web2.0 Doesn't ExistParticularly interesting aspect of this is that 1% of Digg-ers actually vote, people *don’t want to* participate, they just want to be in the know, and are happy to trust / let this …
Yearly Archives: 2006
myspace and ‘posting a blog’
Having spent a lot of time with undergrads talking about blogs in the last couple of weeks I’m starting to develop a love / hate relationship with myspace – Love, because 75% of them are happier to get involved & have a better understanding that they were last year – Hate, because everytime someone says …
Blogs as Personal Learning Environments Presentation now Live
What better way to spend your weekend than to catch all 12 minutes of my Blogs as PLEs screencast which is now live over at the HigherEd BlogCon. It’s not the best presentation I’ve ever put together but it does synthesise some of my thoughts on the area… and you’re welcome to comment / criticise …
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Finally, Weblogg-ed Joins the WP Crew!
Well, that was a pretty exhilarating experience! I’m delighted to announce that as of yesterday evening incsub is the new host of the most broadly read education weblog on the internet, Will Richardson’s Weblogg-Ed. It’s a great arrangement… I can support Will in his new endeavours by taking hosting costs / concerns out of his …
Community Sites & Legal Responsibilities
IANAL but INAL – I am not a lawyer but I need one :) More specifically I’d be *enormously* grateful if anyone out there could help to illuminate or guide my thinking on the legal position regarding the posting of copyright infringing, defamatory or libellous material on a community website. Both regarding one that’s based …
HigherEd BlogCon
Well, have had a pretty extreme few weeks, to say the least. Many many things from some forthcoming developments at edublogs.org to the phantasmagorical world of Ben Barren and some really cool developments at The Knowledge Tree. Add to that some seriously funky WordPress work (on both sides of that big old pond up there), …
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PC Pod’s Teachers’ guide to blogging and podcastingGreat edublogs.org post for all of ya getting interested in using blogs in education!
Ahhh… the weekend!
A combination of half term, conferences and lots of work has meant that I haven’t had any real ‘time out’ for about a month now… that’s about to change though as we scoot off (sans kids) for a long weekend not just off the net but off the grid entirely. water=spring | cooking & heating=slow …
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Live WordPress theme listAnd to round of a little WP-fest this is useful too Sociable – Push cxAnother nice possible plugin for edublogs Movable Anything at Dan Cameron 2.0WordPress plugin, worth a play, am looking forward to widgets rolling into WPMU though too.
From bad to worse
Well, what’s worse than only being able to get online for 30 mins a day… howabout a combination of Windows / Phoenix wiping all you application data… emails.. EVERYTHING… because you had the cheek to hibernate with a few applications running and then restart with a weak wireless connection. So, am going to get to …