Bugger, I can’t run the captcha authimage with WordPress because my hosting provider has only compliled GD and not freetype with PHP… sigh… any other solutions out there? I’ve posted this here, on the WP boards too. Update… seems like the -hacks file in the download is blankish, tried to post this over at the …
Author Archives: James
Spam spam spam spam spam…
I’m cleaning out (from my inbox, WP happily intercepting them based on content) between 5 and 40 spam attacks a day and the other week has my first experience of wikispam, nothing like what Brian & Alan are dealing with but annoying nonetheless. But how to deal with it, well, picked up this link to …
Why do I blog
Frank Paynter asks “Why Do We Blog“, well…. Me, I started trying to force students to blog before I even got round to it myself, sitting sweating over the challenge of getting learners to do e-portfolios / reflective journals the inspiring Lindon Parker (who has disappeared of late? Lindon, where art thou?) said “whatabout blogs” …
AUSTRALIA GETS DRUNK, WAKES UP IN NORTH ATLANTIC
Heh :o) Thanks Sis.
Blogging for cash
Each to their own, seriously, and it’s not like I couldn’t do with the money, but, personally, (OK enough commas now) while I’d be totally cool with blogging being part of my job I wouldn’t do it in my personal blog. But then again Richard is being totally upfront with it… hmmmm… makes me want …
Keep the blogroll
I’m with Seb, blogrolls are good. They are simple, visible, physical ways of exploring a network, finding stuff you want to read and seeing what kind of interests the writer has. After much wringing of hands Bloglines even delivered the blogroll of my dreams, one which is based on my webfeed subscriptions so I don’t …
BlogTalk Downunder
Cool, it’s out so I’ll out it again… Anne Bartlett-Bragg of Learning Technologies has gone and done it, and good on her for it… Blogtalk Downunder: “BlogTalk Downunder ** Advance Notice ** Initial expressions of interest ** The first blogging conference to be held in the southern hemisphere – incorporating Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia. …
Best Designed / Most Beautiful
I know some of these categorys suck but would love to see a few more nominations in the ‘best designed’ blog category… I think that although we generally read each other through stripped down feeds it’s obvious that a lot of people put a heck of a lot of time into creating usable / functional …
The Edublog Awards Nominations Closing Friday (& How would you like to vote?)
The Edublog Awards nominations close Friday so get in there and nominate away, for me this part isn’t so much about nominating ‘the best of the best’ but people who deserve to be in the categories and get some recognition… a lot of people are commenting that they’re getting introduced to a heap of good …
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My Drupal Wishlist
I’m having lots of fun pushing Drupal around over at the incsub association and my latest post there is a bit of an “I want” / wishlist thing regarding groups (enterprising Drupal), blogs and wikis… here’s one of them: “-I want to be able to create ‘groups’ – that is, if I have an undergraduate …