To celebrate the impending 1000th blog at edublogs.org I’ve created a Drupal based edublogs.org community. To participate all you need to do is role on over there, grab yourself a username (synching databases falls, um, into the ‘too hard’ basket ;) and get posting. This has the added bonus in that now people can support …
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Ahem
We interrupt our scheduled outage to whinge about the England football team, just as the cricket is looking up – bemoan the stupidity behind single sex education (I know… I was in one!), lets just worry about making our chikdren rounded and happy human beings rather than grades-charged sociopaths – and share with you the …
James Farmer is SNOWED UNDER
Stolen from Cameron Reilly’s email auto-reply I figured I’d just mention that I, um, am SNOWED UNDER and probably will remain to be for the next week or two… ….and then I’ll be taking a month off to do some reno and go to the UK to help out with my Dad so, if it …
subverted links
i d e a n t: Syllabus for graduate course on Social SoftwareFantastic social software syllabus from Ulises, definitely a keeper!
Dedicated to Moog
Today I feel mostly like sitting in a field. [larger image and more]
How to promote edublogs.org without being evil..
I floated the idea of running a weblogs inc kinda banner at the top of each edublogs.org blog to promote the service but have so far found no takers (quite the opposite :o) So I was wondering how, given the multitude of themes available (I’d be wanting to insert this into each theme…) and a …
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Visits still up, pages down, bandwidth crisis avoided but what’s up?
Interesting stuff… so the measures I put in place seem to have calmed the bandwidth issues but the number of visitors is still ridiculously high (this is just incsub.org btw… not edublogs) although awstats thinks they are individuals… don’t see how I can suddenly have picked up an extra 2000 uniques a day though, wonder …
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Google Talk
Hurrah, Google Talk works using my proxycap so now you might actually be able to contact me (still can’t get Skype or Gizmo going). ID: jamesnfarmer Add me to ya list ! Oh, and if you want a gmail invite (you need gmail to use this) just leave a comment.
SBS Presentation… blogs and broadcast: the kodak web
I’m pretty lucky as tomorrow I’m off to Fed Square to talk to SBS about blogs and broadcast. I figure I’m probably the lucky one as although I know a bit about this technology I know very very little about broadcasting and so the chance to see what they make of what I say about …
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Bandwidth buggers quelled
Phew… fingers crossed a combination of bad behaviour and referrer karma has taken the meat out if the extra 10-15k page views incsub was getting every day and bandwidth looks like it’s back to normal. Big thanks to D’Arcy for suggesting RK, much appreciated!