Meet the Bloggers

Edge Hill University seem to have a small number of bloggers. From the way that they’re writing, I’m guessing that they’re Student Union Reps, trying to give an idea of what University is like for freshers. They seem to have a good mix of “work” and social related posts. Still trying to get blogging really…

Blogging in the media.

Having taken a few days off over Easter, it seemed that every time I opened the paper (well, the Guardian at least!), something about blogs was there! There was the review of the first 10 years of blogs According to Johnson, the first post was “Check this out. Amazing!” on Scripting News. Blood, in The…

Is blogging slowing down?

A headline in The Register caught my eye yesterday – “Blog refuseniks facing the sack?“. It was actually looking at ‘compulsory’ blogging by marketing staff etc., at Sony: “If you don’t blog, it’s going to be frowned upon. Ged has made it clear that staff are expected to blog and participate in the community. He…

Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech"

Kathy Sierra, whose blog I have read in the past – has had many threats on her blog. I just don’t get it. Why? BBC Report: About Kathy Sierra Stop Cyber Bullying Day – Friday The StopCyberBullying Website (a Ning Community) BBC Report: About a Commons Education Select Committee Report – on bullying in general,…

Massively Multi-Learner Workshop

I’m at the Massively Multi-Learner Workshop in Paisley. So far we’ve had some excellent presentations from Dave Taylor – from NPL (National Physical Laboratory) – they’ve done some really interesting things. I liked the Physics in Teen Grid – he also showed several other things. Alex Krotoski’s talk was excellent – a lot about social…

RSS to populate a blog.

As I’ve said in other posts, as well as this blog, I’ve also got one on Eduspaces (was Elgg). I’d decided to get my students to use Elgg, so felt that I ought to have one there too. By the time that we had made the move from Blogspot to Elgg, this blog was starting…

Ning

Build Your Own Social Network Ning is one of several Social Networking sites that is allowing users to create their own social network. I’ve been using Elgg for some time, on the Elgg.net site – now called “Eduspaces” – which reflects the number of Educational users. I’ve also set up a space on Elgg Spaces,…

Talkr

I’ve been using Talkr for some time now, to automatically create the “Listen to podcast” links at the bottom of each post. I’d not really thought about how much they were being used, till I read Brett’s question about PodPress. I went to have a look at the stats – and was amazed! This year,…

Emerge

Josie Fraser writes about the Emerge project – one of the new JISC projects. It sounds really interesting (though I wish it was easier to link to particular posts in Josie’s new blog!)…