… then you should put it in your sidebar at Edublogs. Now featuring the Sonific songspot widget… enjoy!
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Blogging tips by Lorelle
Hurrah, received my copy today of Blogging Tips by Lorelle. And just to prove it’s arrived, here it is with some genuine Aussie bush in the background! You can grab your own copy here.
A Short History of WordPress MultiUser (WPMU)
This is a short tale about how one developer’s inspiration has led to a revolution in online publishing. On October 4th 2004 Donncha O Caoimh released WPMU 0.1 aka WordPress MultiUser aka WordPressµ. Come late ‘04 and early ‘05 there were a lot of us playing around with WPMU and when WordPress 1.5 came about, …
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WordPress and security
This is absolute troll-esque nonsense. sure, we could all always do security better but to recommend, ahem: If you do want to install weblog software, I recommend Movable Type. It is possible to set up a very secure install if you don’t need things like comments Makes you sound a bit silly, in so many …
Edublogs – top 10 website?
OK, this is posted with more than just a pinch of salt… and perhaps says more about Technorati than it does about us, but all the same, check this out: Heh…. and especially when you compare it to the $40m p/year website I’ve just left… So how have I managed to get a higher Technorati …
Education.yawn?
Is anyone else profoundly unimpressed by the new Education.com site?
Out of the boardroom and into the classroom… help requested!
Walter Jennings, who I’m helping out with blog stuff, is making the transition from boardroom to classroom next month and is uncharacteristically concerned. Walter’s the MD of a big PR firm here in Au so I reckon it rocks that he’s taking time to not just do an invitational lecture but to teach a whole …
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Selfish altruism
Stephen responds to my contention that we’re all selfish brutes: “People like to create content, and they like to help each other – they aren’t inherently selfish; there’s lots of evidence to show they want to share, even if there’s no benefit to themselves. What they don’t feel the need to do, though, is to …
Good LORd
“A bunch of folks (myself included) took up the task of building software to let people easily publish, describe, share, find (and hopefully use) digital assets or learning objects (assets with a bunch of metadata tacked on the side). I think it’s fair to say that the experiments failed pretty dramatically. The only content that …
incorporated subversion surprise entry at no. 35
Mucho shock at the incsub ranch this morning as we discovered that incorporated subversion had entered the top 100 Australian blogs at number 35. Just behind Nik, but crucially ahead of BB. Now to consolidate the position and move up the chart! With riviting readership-driven posts just like this! And lots of exclamation marks! But …
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