I’ve just approved a “trackback” (a post that was posted on someone else’s site referring to one of my posts). Curiously, he (or she) thinks I’m called “Longscorner”. But, it’s not just me that has the wrong identity. All the posts (which seem to be culled from RSS feeds) seem to have the wrong original…
ToxicShark is a blog that’s been mentioned several times on the BBC’s Casualty; it’s a blog which is somewhat less than complementary about members of the staff of Holby’s A & E. (The rest of the hospital hasn’t, as yet, come under criticism). I leave you to decide which is “fiction” and which “real”!…
Barry Dahl raises the point that while we, as lecturing staff, may think that students *want* to be part of an eLearning community – and take steps to encourage it, perhaps they don’t. He hasn’t actually given the results of what the students actually think – which would be useful. I’m not sure that I…
Blackboard officially launched EduGarage on October 23rd. This is a site that brings together all the developers working on Powerlinks for the assorted Blackboard products. It’s set up as a wiki, with forums etc. What I find particularly interesting is that they’ve announced it on the Blackboard blog, which is rather more feature rich (essentially…
The Guardian reports on research by Dr. Reader (Sheffield Hallam) looking at the nature of friendship, and how that is/ isn’t changing with the way that people are using Facebook etc., While they found that many users may have more “friends”, they still had the same 5 or so really close friends that the average…
I have just been experimenting with the “Now Reading” plugin, as a possible way of keeping track of some of the books that I’ve read. I’m not sure yet if I can include the reviews in the main blog, or if they have to stay as part of the library….
Eduspaces, which is powered by Elgg – and is where I’m getting the KMET students to keep their blogs, has just had a face lift. I’d just spent a significant part of last week starting to create a Wiki to explain all the features. I’m consoling myself with the fact that it *is* a wiki…
I’ve just started experimenting with Word 2007 and discovered that I could blog from it. I’ve previously set up Flock to blog directly and that was very easy. I just entered the URL of the blog and it found the correct settings. I erroneously thought that the inclusion of “WordPress” on the…
A two part slideshow about the history of the social web. They’re both quite long – and it starts right at the beginning – with monks in 1746 connecting to a battery. It then jumps quite quickly to Vannear Bush (1945), and then almost 260 slides later we have the spread of different social networks…
Bluetooth helps Facebook friends So, if I have a bluetooth phone, I can register it with Cityware & then when I encounter someone else who has also registered, and they are my friend on facebook, then it will register. However, given that bluetooth doesn’t travel that far, what are the chances that someone on my…