I don’t know where Compete gets its data from (as opposed to Alexa – which I guess is the Amazon toolbar) but when it comes to them tracking Edublogs, one of them is correct and one of them isn’t. While our stats show us as doing better than Compete has us doing (in the US), …
Author Archives: James
The Knowledge Tree 2007
Phew, well after quite a bit of work (I can tell you) the 2007 edition of The Knowledge Tree is now live! To give us a fresh new look for 2007, while preserving the 2006 look we had to completely shift the site around (note to self: dynamic URLs ALWAYS in future) and revising quite …
Learnerblogs upgrade
I know K-12 blogs hosted at learnerblogs.org have been too slow of late – we’ve had a few complaints and I was beginning to be aware of a kinda ‘Edublogs – good for teachers, rubbish for students’ mentality that was bubbling away. Well, as of now that’s no longer the case, from the Edublogs news …
Melbourne Online Digital Media (MODM) #2
Cam is of the belief that if I post about going to MODM2 in June, more people will come. However, I have to say that I’m highly dubious as to whether this will make any difference at all, but what the heck eh.
Going old skool
Am going to be putting up a redesign in a few weeks time, so thought for the meantime I’d go old skool incorporated subversion, man. Will be running through this and some of my other less exciting designs as we go. Incidentally I can’t for the life of me seem to be able to find …
Networked Proximity
If you’ve got time for one in-depth, utterly fascinating and completely illuminating read this year, may I recommend Ulises Ali Mejias’ Networked Proximity (pdf 1.2MB). The network as a map of interconnected elements or nodes has become a favored metaphor for describing a wide variety of social systems in our age. But the network is …
Losing my wisdom
I’ll be a little incommunicado over the next few days as am having all 4 (yes, that’s four) of my Wisdom teeth pulled, oucha. Having said that, my Nan had the whole set tugged out in her twenties – prevention being better than a cure and all that – so I’m feeling kinda lucky in …
What laptop?
OK then, I’m in the market for a new laptop. And yep, as I’m an uber-non-cool Windows user it’s all decisions decisions… It’s going to live on a desk most of the time, need a decent display (bigger the better really) and doesn’t need to have any souped up game specs. But I’d still like …
Thirty one today
I’m now officially into my thirties, eeek. Not to worry though, this is going to be the best year yet… I can feel it!
This time… it’s a boy!
The father of WPMU – and by definition Edublogs, WordPress.com and many many other sites, has had another baby… and this time it’s a boy! May you have no bugs to squash, no security holes to patch and no feature requests to field. Huge congrats Donncha, wonderful news.