Dan Zarrella has a tool that will take a blog post title, and look at words to see if they’re words that generally increase or decrease the popularity on Digg. Jose Quesada first pointed it out, suggesting that “academic” wasn’t a particularly useful word to have in a title. I’ve tried with a few variants…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
A rambling route through sites!
It all started with a post on Stephen’s blog about WordPress.Com As OpenCourseWare. That took me to EduGlu, with a very nice diagram of an Open Content and Open Learning environment (seems to be a good diagram of a PLE as well). Joining EduGlu was fine, trying to add my blog and then to make…
Oral Traditions
I’ve been reading (and will comment on later) Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur”. What struck me is that Keen is seeing bloggers as taking over the journalism arena. I’ve tended to see bloggers as more of a continuation of/ return to the rich oral traditions we had, and still exists in areas such as…
Google Reader.
Anyone have any bright ideas … I’ve been using Google Reader for some time now as an RSS feed reader. I’ve just started getting feeds from “feral cat news”, a blog that I don’t subscribe to. I’ve had a look in my list of feeds, and it’s not there, but I’m getting feeds from it….
MySpace opens doors to developers
MySpace are opening up a DeveloperPlatform using Google’s Open Social tools. While the BBC comment that nearly 15,000 Facebook applications have been written, and thus they expect a similar level of interest for MySpace apps (particularly given that Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut already use Open Social, thus meaning application developers only have to develop the…
The Bamboo Project Blog: Advice on Blogging for Learning
Michele Martin has a set of very useful points about using blogging for learning . As she points out, most of the sites that offer to help you improve your blog, assume that you want to reach a wide audience, sell something or whatever. In fact, many of the principles of blogging that apply to…
Blogging – a post modern diary or just kitsch
I really ought to be getting on with my marking, but I’ve just been skim reading this post by Jenny Hughes on Graham Attwell’s blog, , and Which, of course is in total opposition to the cultural myth called ‘education and learningÂ’. How many parents (and the Daily Telegraph and Chris Woodward) be-moan the fact…
Guardian Interview: Tara Brabazon
The Education Guardian has an interview with Tara Brabazon. While I think that she has some good ideas, such as giving her first year students a list of 200 or so extracts of papers, to use as references for their essays (I do hope, however, that either they’re available online or in sufficient quantities that…
Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks Workshop 2007
UKOLN . This was held in November; there are several useful presentations; though, as always, the slides aren’t really a replacement for being there. There was a good range though, from using an institutional VLE, through to using much more informal methods of blogging. (I didn’t attend)…
Why blog? Who's reading you?
Lucy Gray has posed this question in advance of a workshop she’s doing at MacWorld. The first caused me to stop and think and do a bit of research – just when did I write my first blog post? And why. (You’ll have to read the comments in her post if you want to know…