Cool, I’m going to be at Online Social Networks 2005, first time I’ve attended a ‘summit’ ;o) Will be interesting to see what comes up, at $35 it’s a snip and kicks off today if anyone fancies coming along…
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Blogbib -Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs…
Via Sharon comes Blogbib, an excellent resource describing itself as an “annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs…”. For example here’s a great descriptive list of books on blogging and here are plenty of online presentations on blogging. Susan Herzog is obviously another of these amazing librarians previously trapped in …
An alternative way to organise your data…
Simon Pockley of The Flight of Ducks (an amazing, poetic web experience if you have a few minutes to explore!) and also a colleague told me a fascinating story this morning about alternative approaches to handling information. Essentially he and others were talking at a recent metadata conference in Seattle about libraries and the way …
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The Journal of Community Informatics… good news!
I love having a weblog, Mike Gurstein editor-in-chief of The Journal of Community Informatics commented on my last post saying that it was a mistake that the email got sent out and that all the papers are now fully available. Frabjous :D So not only am, I now back on their email notification list (c’mon …
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IncSub educational hosting & support… premium service?
Prompted by a couple of emails regarding the kind of levels of support that IncSub (do you like the final double barrelled capitalisation?) can provide and the answer generally being “Um, a bit, but we, um, aren’t a hosting company or anything” I was wondering whether there would be any point providing a kind of …
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Googol or google buns – where does that name really come from?
Prompted by a bit of etymological exploration from Anjo (being an ex ESL teacher these things always get me) I figured I’d use A9 to support my contention that all this stuff about the name Google coming from a googol is a bit far fetched really. You see the real source for the name is …
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Yay – Good news!
Final post for the week… I’ve just got my Australian Citizenship through! Yay :D After almost 5 years to the day from landing in Melbourne and it’s been a heck of a journey!!! In honour of the occasion here’s the unofficial Australian national anthem (sung as no-one knows the words to the official one) From …
Blogtalk Sponsorship
Thought I’d repost the Blogtalk ‘call for sponsorship’ post here in it’s entirety. We’re an attractive proposition and a worthy non-profit cause so please pass this on to your marketing / business development folk, it’ll be good blog karma if you do! “OK, now we’ve got a great venue, great invited speakers and great abstracts… …
When blogging goes bad…
Just reread Steve Krause’s When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Emailing Lists, Discussion, and Interaction and two things sprung to mind. Firstly this is absolutely critical reading for anyone considering blogging in teaching and learning, it’s a really good examination of blogs not working and that, in my book, is as valuable …
Edugadget
This is a pretty cool edublog that I just stumbled upon, “Edugadget – plain-talking technology reviews for teachers‘”. Lots of stuff on audioblogging, Skype, Wikipedia etc. which while it ‘aint that new to me would be v. popular with most of the teachers I know, worth a look, here’s the feed (although why a WordPress …