This is getting silly now, I had a look through some past posts and I’m using bloody smilies in pretty much every other paragraph.

Yes, they add information, convey what a happy-go-lucky chappie I am etc. but at the same time I should be able to convey what I mean without having to justify / couch / support it with idiotic winks eveey time I say something.

So, I’m going on a smilie diet from now on… I’m not going to banish them but I’m also not going to use them with any sort of regularity or unless they are absolutely appropriate – which they aren’t here, all the time, everyday.

Fantastic, I’m going to be on a panel with Jimmy Wales next Friday at an education.au seminar entitled Challenging how knowledge is created.

Regular readers would know that while I’m in awe of Jimmy’s achievements with Wikipedia I’m not such a great fan of Wikibooks or this whole blogging code of conduct farce, so I’m looking farward to putting forward a slightly different perspective ;)

If you’re in Melbourne (or nearby) why don’t you come along? Should be a great day and they’ve got Mark Pesce to facilitate (and run a workshop after) which should also be fun.

I really really really want to go to WordCamp this year – make it so little pixies :)

Well, only because we have to ;)

Seriously though, the vast majority of Edubloggers are MS users and the vast majority of Word docs, presentations and spreadsheets are produced as .doc, .ppt or .xls files.

So, now when you upload or link to any of these documents to Edublogs – your readers will, courtesy of ThinkFree Viewer, be able to simply view (as well as download) the file online in a rather neat fashion.

Check out an example on the announcement.

Ahhhh.. I haven’t had a good rant for a long time :)

Here’s my take on this ridiculous ‘blogging code of conduct’ nonsense.

Would you like to contribute to the bloggiest and best ed tech journal on the web :)

Well, The Knowledge Tree is looking for  contributors for later in the year – so you can both get in touch with them and chill out – perfect.

Great opportunity to publish in an excellent journal.

‘If I didn’t have my own domain and wanted to blog either with or without my students, I would select Edublogs as my blogging service.’
Huffenglish.com

Nice stuff. Will have to get into more detail one of these days about what it’s like trying to compete with Blogger / WordPress.com etc. for teacher & student blogs… actually, how do you do that… any ideas :)

Just put up a new Edublogs News post on some of the latest plugins we’ve introduced, all entirely free ‘natch :D

As part of a progressive revamp of the news, support and social aspects of Edublogs I’m going to be posting to the Edublogs News Blog a lot more from now on.

Today’s is just a quickie about how you can now post your own funky LaTeX equations just by turning on an incy wincy plugin :)

All things going as planned I should be in San Fran from Thursday 8th March (that’s, um, four days away) until Monday 12th (four days after – funnily enough).

But not being a regular web2-SF-cruiser I thought now would be the time to beg you, dear reader, to let me know where I should stay (it has to be downtown) and who I should meet up with… you perhaps?

Drop me an email (james (at) incsub /dot/ org) [I really need to get round to putting up a new contact form] or leave a comment.