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I did a quick talk for Leigh a few weeks back on identity, ownership and online learning… it was supposed to be 10 minutes long and turned out at 11 (sorry Leigh :). And I thought it was lost forever… yet, the most excellent Sue has put the words to pictures and made a video …

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OK, so am locking in the venue and stuff for WordCamp Melbourne, and am running into two issues – firstly Howard really needs to call the election (community halls can get canceled at the last minute) and secondly I need to figure out a way to create a wireless, wireless hotspot – i.e. use a …

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We passed a bit of a milestone last week… 100,000 edublogs :) It’s been a pretty wild ride so far, it doesn’t seem like too long ago we went past 10K, but here’s to the next 100… and more :)

Great work Cam – cannae wait to tune in to ’em :)

We just bought and installed a brand new dedicated dual xeon webserver for edublogs (stuffed with RAM) – which means that edublogs is now supported by four absolutely whopping servers (the database server is a quad core woodcrest with 3x300GIG SSCI RAID disks… your data is verrry safe with us!) Anyway, as the only time …

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Big new feature rolled out today. You can now buy tokens at edublogs and exchange them for, well, stuff :) Our first feature allows users to add an extra 1Gig storage to their upload area for the princely sum of $25 a year. Exciting times :)

OK, I don’t get out much these days, and spent 90% of my time indoors around WordPress in one form or another, so, why not combine the desire to escape with a chance to talk to real live people, face-to-face (oooo) about the daily grind ;) (pic nicked off Juan Manuel) So… I propose we …

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Fray is back, and in a kinda different form. You could say that the new is much older than the old (submit by email, see if you get published) which is interesting in a coupla ways. First up, it’s a nice recognition of the fact that ‘just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’ thing …

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A big loss :(

The Guardian mini site has more, and extracts.