Beautiful, WordPress 1.5 is out, those of you who have set up incsub WPMU blogs will have a fair idea of how nice this is but let assure you… it just gets better! Am currently working on getting some alternate themes together for incsub WPMU (it’s an arduous process if you’re as bad at this …
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Blackberry email
Steve Chesno on the pain caused by blackberry… something I think I’m gonna hear a lot about in years to come down here: “There should be a law: Every Blackberry or similar device should automatically build in a tagline to go with every e-mail it sends. It should read: “This message was sent by a …
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Heh :D via NevOn.
Our bounded and remote online experiences
Following on from this post, Stephen submits that the system we need to create is: “a complex construction that enables, first, a wide variety of experiences akin to (and possibly extending upon) our experiences of the natural world: things to see, touch, do, and otherwise sense; and second, a mechanism for interpreting and comprehending this …
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Edugadget on using cell phones in schools
Edugadget: “Question: Is it possible to turn the trend of cell phone usage amongst teenagers in school into a positive? The Opportunity: The distribution of important information in school is an extremely resource intensive effort. If you were to calculate the straight labor cost, let alone the missed opportunity (more teaching) costs, it would be …
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The Podcast Network
Hey, good work by Mick & Cameron, checkout The Podcast Network. “The Podcast Network will be the best collection of podcasts available anywhere that are managed and aggregated under the one roof.” I reckon this is going to be cool, I wonder if anyone is doing anything similar with music? Goodonya guys!
Producing Social Network ‘Environments’
I’m watching a fascinating (and well put together) presentation from Lisa Kimball on “Producing Social Network Environments” as part of OSN05. Am not sure if you can get it, I think you can , try here. (need Realplayer). If you can I’d encourage you to watch it, it’s v. good! What I’m not entirely comfortable …
More cowbell (?)
Stigmergic: “So I went to blackboard’s site (nope – no link, I’m not going to up their page rating), and I found it tainted with the miasma of corporate culture that is threatening to choke the learning out of the education system.”
Getting fired for blogging, or not.
NevOn, my new favourite communications blog posts a good run-down on the Mark Jen ‘getting fired for blogging by Google’ event quoting some great sources and wrapping it up nicely with: “Employees – Use your own common sense on what you say about your employer and issues in your workplace in your public blog. The …
ANT
Interesting, via Adrian, ANT looks a lot like a rather funky video aggregator, Mac only at the mo but working ‘feverishly’ on a Windows version… ” * ANT helps you download and watch video published on the Internet. * ANT allows you to organize and manage video playlists * ANT is a video aggregator that …