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Not a Twitter user, but a Twitter user
As I mentioned yesterday Twitter is possibly the best human powered monitoring / feedback service a big blogging website could ever want. And sometimes that’s pretty frustrating because you see Tweets that are just plain wrong, and you can’t ‘add a comment’ or feedback to them without all sort of pain (if at all). But …
A little bit more monitor
OK, so in addition to SharpReader (thanks Sue) here’s another heap of ways you can keep an eye on / facilitate other people keeping and eye on your servers & sites. Pingdom – Rocks the house… incredibly reliable (unless you’re using caching :/) so point it at something dynamic and give it your server tech’s …
Edmodo – let battle commence :)
Maybe I’m just old fashioned – or slack – but I’ve never got the ‘private beta’ model. It’s just that IMPO you should be able to release something with a level of simplicity that means you can just roll it out in public from day 1. So usually I just ignore ’em… but how could …
Looking for inspiration…
… yet inspiration is hard to find. So, I’m gonna go all old skool and tell you what books are currently beside me as I tap this out in bed on a Saturday morning. There’s a biography of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin called ‘Thomas Hardy [duh] The time torn man’ which is unusual as …
Monitoring, monitoring, monitoring…
Anyone know a decent desktop (XP) feed reader that you can set to actually go out and check feeds minute by minute? Am thinking of those tweets / forums posts that you really need to know about a couple of minutes after they’re made. As opposed to 4 hours later (grr..)
Will the real Blackboard please step forward
Via Stephen, The Slashdot take on Blackboard’s setup is very informative – particularly this bit (cut down): It produces hundreds of megabytes of absolutely useless logs every day. The built in log archiving utility doesn’t work. It’s built primarily on Tomcat. Their support is nearly non-existent They use incredibly inefficient stored procedures which can bring …
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Meanwhile, Optus carry on being crap
Sorry Richard, setting my proxy to proxy to cache1.optusnet.com.au port 80 or webproxy01.syd.optusnet.com.au / webproxy02.syd.optusnet.com.au hasn’t helped with my Optus cable internet woes. Again, come 9:45AM this morning I’ve been locked out of gmail and bizarrely a selection of our servers in the US (not all – like the one this is on). Update: Actually …
Guess who’s 5 today….
Yep, ‘Incorporated Subversion’ (or should I say ‘James Farmer’s Radio Weblog’) was born on this day 5 full years ago. That’s half a decade, from my 20s to my 30s, and blimey things were different back then. Funnily enough though, I’m still writing about pretty much exactly the same thing :D Anyway, to celebrate the …
Another big new Edublogs feature – forums
Yeh yeh, I know I bag out forums as the root of all evil in online teaching and learning… but not when they’re used in the right way, and as an element (certainly not the main one) of an environment. So, as evidence of my balanced and completely non OTT perspective on these things, we …
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