Blogs, beautiful blogs

Today’s Citizen article is a homage to the humble online news/ent/info site’s blog… but not for the reasons you might expect. There’s an interesting distinction between blogs based around opinion, news, ‘your say’ style articles and feature pieces… anyway, have a peek and lemme know what you think.

edublogs.org – the first year (stats)

Bugger, missed the official date but still a happy belated first birthday to edublogs.org! One of these days I’ll get round to writing some serious stuff about the site, how it’s been, where I’d like it to go and how it can get there. But for the moment here are some stats: By the end …

My presentation at the education.au ‘What’s changed’ seminar

This is something I haven’t done before – listened to myself giving a presentation – it’s kinda scary. Lots of ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ to start with, which decrease a little over time, but I reckon I could do with a few public speaking classes nonetheless :) An absolutely great seminar / conference – fascinating attendees …

Last Mad Puppy

Edublogs.org 10,000th blog winner Mark O’Meara has invested his winnings in lastmadpuppy.com as a discussion space which is ‘a bit like a book club but for movies and music as well’. Congrats again Mark and best of luck with the new endeavour!

Bloglines: The lover with a sting

Have discovered a little more about recent server issues… it seems that Bloglines, when allowed access to my server, is making ~230 parallel requests/second to it… which is naturally, along with all the other requests, killing everything. Problem is that a very significant percentage of people hosted on the server – edublogs.org users included – …