I did a quick talk for Leigh a few weeks back on identity, ownership and online learning… it was supposed to be 10 minutes long and turned out at 11 (sorry Leigh :).

And I thought it was lost forever… yet, the most excellent Sue has put the words to pictures and made a video of it, great stuff Sue, thanks :)

At the same time Lorelle gave edublogs a lovely write up on the occasion of our 100K blogs – all the more lovely because she featured some great edubloggers and their posts too. Rock on :)

OK, so am locking in the venue and stuff for WordCamp Melbourne, and am running into two issues – firstly Howard really needs to call the election (community halls can get canceled at the last minute) and secondly I need to figure out a way to create a wireless, wireless hotspot – i.e. use a plan from a roaming wireless provider and whack it through a wireless router to provide net for everyone.

The prices for hotspots out of the box are ridiculous.

Any ideas?

We passed a bit of a milestone last week… 100,000 edublogs :)

It’s been a pretty wild ride so far, it doesn’t seem like too long ago we went past 10K, but here’s to the next 100… and more :)

Great work Cam – cannae wait to tune in to ’em :)

We just bought and installed a brand new dedicated dual xeon webserver for edublogs (stuffed with RAM) – which means that edublogs is now supported by four absolutely whopping servers (the database server is a quad core woodcrest with 3x300GIG SSCI RAID disks… your data is verrry safe with us!)

Anyway, as the only time we ever hear anything about the speed of the service is when we’re having a slow patch, I thought I’d congratulate myself on halving our response times today :)

Of course the real test is when I run back to back workshops at PLC tomorrow as part of the AISICT conference that I’m keynoting in the morning

Big new feature rolled out today.

You can now buy tokens at edublogs and exchange them for, well, stuff :)

Our first feature allows users to add an extra 1Gig storage to their upload area for the princely sum of $25 a year.

Exciting times :)

OK, I don’t get out much these days, and spent 90% of my time indoors around WordPress in one form or another, so, why not combine the desire to escape with a chance to talk to real live people, face-to-face (oooo) about the daily grind ;)

(pic nicked off Juan Manuel)

So… I propose we run a WordCamp Melbourne, pretty soon.

I reckon we should aim for 1 day (and an evening!), about 50 people coming along, lots of quick, fun presentations and something like $20- a ticket to cover the venue and some snacks.

I reckon a Saturday in mid-November. Maybe Saturday 17th November?

As for location, I’m thinking somewhere pretty casual and (obvioulsy) central – Maybe Phoenix or The Star Bar, or somewhere else?

Let me know if you’re interested in helping organize it, sponsoring it (go on :) or have any ideas for venues etc.

Fray is back, and in a kinda different form.

You could say that the new is much older than the old (submit by email, see if you get published) which is interesting in a coupla ways.

First up, it’s a nice recognition of the fact that ‘just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’ thing that I’ve been talking about around comments for a while now.

Secondly though, I wonder how motivated people will be to simply submit their stories, and wait for ‘approval’, rather than see then published as they are, and as they submitted them?

Will be interesting whatever though!

A big loss :(

The Guardian mini site has more, and extracts.