Hey, good on Matt for taking the plunge, leaving CNET and going at WordPress (in all it’s varieties) full time! As he says: “If there is ever going to be a time in my life to take big risks and reach for the brass ring, now is it.” Good call.
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The joy of open source and Beblogger.com
Wonderful stuff, after literally months of headbanging about how to get ‘latest updated’ into edublogger I thought I’d take a stroll through the list of WPMU hosts at How do you MU? and see if anyone else had it working. Which led me to Beblogger.com (supported by Michele at BeFree – information technology consultant) who …
More non-violent assessment
Well, it seems to be the week for this kind of stuff, step forward Adrian Miles with a fascinating post on self assessment and reflective practice. What, in particular, caught my eye are his plans for blog assessment: “For the future what I will do is invite the students to write, for themselves (individually) a …
edublogs.org – new look & where to from here…
Well, have whacked up the first draft of an edublogs.org redesign and figured that now is as good a time as any to ask what people make of it and also of where it might go in the future. At the moment I’m *fairly* comfortable with where it’s at technically – a few bugs (which …
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Some more educational violence
This post by CJ, Lemmings and similar phenomena, is another in the vein of Aaron’s excellent violence posting: “With Secondary schooling we have a system which, in my view, is increasingly difficult to justify. It is a form of what might be called organised child abuse which repeats itself over and over again, year in, …
Wild vista speculation
Here’s a thought, I wonder how many trademarks and associated stuff WebCT had taken out on ‘Vista’ (given WebCT Vista) and I wonder how much that might have (if at all) impacted on the all new & far more important MS Vista OS coming round the corner, and what with MS being a big investor …
Wikis – know your limits
Don’t get me wrong, I like a good wiki as much as the next fella, but can we please get over sentiments like these: “A wiki is a group blog that can be edited by its readers… Wikis are more like conversations” I’d love to be at the wikisym, I get entirely what Socialtext and …
Communities, networks and a better world
One of the less advantageous by-products of a trip back to the UK is that it tends to find me smoking again, and not in a ‘cor look at him go’ sense but more in the traditional, smelly and slightly dysfunctional one. However, one of the by-products of this is that I spend much more …
Weblog Usability by Nielsen
Quite fun to see Nielsen getting into weblog usability… should really just go check our the problogger but still pretty interesting… how do you measure up? Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits …
Method man
Was it the specials that sang ‘how do you do it, how do you do it to me?’ – More and larger image