I have two blogs – one at http://dukee.myweb.port.ac.uk and one at http://eduspaces.net/emmadw/weblog. Until recently (? updating to WordPress 2.7) I was able to just blog on the userweb blog – and the eduspaces (which is Elgg powered) picked up the RSS feed & incorporated it. It no longer seems to. So, I’ve decided to try…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year
UK: Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year I’ve certainly been adding to that 10 fold increase. (Image from TweetStats)…
Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Academic Earth claims to have Video lectures from the “world’s top scholars”. While, in many ways, I agree, they’ve only (at present) got those from US universities – so have eliminated all non English speakers, as well as those English speakers from, well, anywhere that’s not the US! The computer science strand has 13 sets…
Wordle – 4
Created at Wordle…
Bye, bye Google Notebook
So, GoogleNotebook will no longer be actively developed. I’ve got a Notebook set up – though I’ve not used it much. There are a number of alternatives, however, this is something that we need to take care of when selecting a tool. With Google, I’ve tended to assume that things will not be removed, but…
Wikipedia tools
Visual Wikipedia lets you see how different pages are related in Wikipedia. Here’s what it thinks about Portsmouth: Via: Freetech4teachers Meanwhile Googlepedia shows the Wikipedia page for a search term, alongside the Google results….
Twitter tools.
Several people (AJCann was the first) have pointed me to Twitter Friends. I’ve had a look – I rather like the Network tool. (Clearly Vicki Davies [Coolcat teacher] is a pretty popular tweeter! From there I discovered how annoying it would be to follow me on Twitter. Neither, of course, are to be confused with…
Mendeley
I’ve just had Mendeley_com start to follow me on Twitter. Not quite sure how they found me, but Mendeley itself claims to be social software for managing & storing research papers. In itself, perhaps it’s not that new, there are other academically slanted social bookmarking etc., tools (e.g. Connotea, Scholar [which can be integrated with…
Twitter – in the Guardian.
I’ve noticed a huge number of articles in the press on Twitter. Was going to post a link to the one I was reading in Tuesday’s G2. However, I had difficulty finding it when searching the Guardian for twitter … 724 mentions of it, of which 25 were this year (so, about 3 a day)….
Debategraph
Someone called “Debategraph” started following me on Twitter, so I thought I’d investigate a little. I’ve now found his (or her!) home page. It’s an interesting idea – seems to be related mind maps. The default one was on Obama (with a link to the Independent – wonder if they use them quite a bit)…