Well, here goes. In my first ever post – four years ago this month – I wondered how I could provide this wonderful technology to teachers and learners. There was the visionary Manila (too hard – for me) and the ever present Blogger (too out of your control) but it wasn’t until WPMU came along …
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Fame! Famous as famous can be!
I’m no MSM suck, no honest, I’m not, believe me :) If you’re interested you can read my account of commuting to work in Melbourne.
The hype machine
I second BB, this rocks. Definitely a contender to Pandora – just whack in an artist and behold the playlist… like Blur, for example. Enjoy!
The Social Agency of Code & Subversive design
Brilliant article on social networks. I know I’m picking out the mini-elements here rather than the bigger picture, but that’s what it’s about, no? Only by looking at technologies in use, beyond the intentions defined during their design, can we get a complete picture of the simultaneous surrender and delegation of agency taking place between …
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February is the new January
By the way, did you know that February is the new January!
Donncha on WPMU & more
It’s great to actually be able to see people that you owe an enormous amount to and who’ve got a heap of very very useful thing to say not just about WPMU (click here for that video) but also about working in different contexts. Good to see & hear you Donncha… maybe you should spend …
That was the year that blogged
If you’re interested in the ol’ media / blogs thing here’s my (not so quick) review of blogs at The Age in 2006.
Top 100 education blogs?
[NB Apparently this is just shonky link getting stuff… I’ve nofollowed the appropriate links but I guess the comments still stand.] Just got an interesting email congratulating me on Bionic Teacher being in the top 100 educational blogs. Interesting not only because it’s not my blog, it’s Jim & Tom’s, and they moved to their …
The Edublog Awards 2006
Good stuff, Josie is up and running with the edublogs.org awards for 2006… go nominate an edublogs.org user today :)
bbPress is gold
Great news that bbPress has made it’s debut, congrats to everyone who’s been involved in the development, it’s a great piece of software! Now all we need is WPMU to edge it’s way onto the dancefloor, and everything will be candy ;) [although word is that won’t be until the next major build of WP… …