Category: Blogs, RSS etc

The Community Engine Blog: A Learning Blogosphere (1): Into the Deep

The Community Engine Blog: A Learning Blogosphere (1): Into the Deep This is the report of a blogging initiative set up in the Autumn of 2004 (or, rather as it’s in the US, the fall), for a group of non-technical students. They were studying databases, and so the author, Bud, used the blogging environment both…

More on academic blog use

Blogwithoutalibray A couple of interesting Academic Blog Initiatives have been listed AT “Blogwithoutalibrary” – firstly the fact that yet another university (in the US), is starting a blog service, and also that Black History Month has, or rather, as it was in February, had, a blog….

Just Blog it 0.2

I’ve been using Just Blog It for a while now, it’s an extension for Firefox. While it doesn’t seem to be listed on the main Firefox extension sites, there is now a version 2 – which I must have found somewhere – as it’s installed at home. The developers site is Warmbrain – though that’s…

The WebLog as the Model for the new VLE

Auricle In February 2004, Auricle initiated a series of articles The Weblog as the Model for a New Type of VLE? Auricle (based at Bath) have been looking in particular at ELGG, a blog type system developed at Edinburgh, which has quite a lot of social interaction type features. They are calling it a “Personal…

Editing the templates

I’ve just started to try to edit the templates. It’s not quite as easy as Blogger, as by default the ability to edit files is disabled. In order to do it, you have to first of all make the files writeable. I managed to do it for one file using SSH shell – which is…

blogwithoutalibrary.net

blogwithoutalibrary.net This seems to be an excellent blog – one that I’m going to add to my Bloglines account. Today the most recent items include how to add email lists to bloglines (could be very useful!), as well as quite a few references to academic uses of blogs. The whole site as far as I…

Space setter

Guardian Unlimited Yet another review of blogs, this time in the Guardian by Mary Branscombe – she’s looking primarily at MSN Spaces. The article then goes on to look at the greater power you could have if you have MS Server 2003 installed – and use SharePoint from that….

Posting for profit

Chalk another one up for the bloggers. Less than a month after claiming that American forces had deliberately targeted and killed journalists during the war in Iraq, CNN’s chief news executive, Eason Jordan, resigned. A typical media story, except his comments were not reported by the mainstream media, but on a weblog, an online diary….