Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles There are several interesting points that it raises, so I’ll only comment on some: The research finds that it is common for adults to have a profile on more than one site (the average being 1.6) and half of current adult social networkers say that they access their profiles…
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WordPress 2.5
Just updated to WordPress 2.5 one of the easiest updates I’ve done (though NowReading doesn’t seem to be working properly. The new dashboard is good; though there are a few issues that others have mentioned that I’d agree with (e.g. the categories now being at the bottom of the posting area, where you may well…
Video: Twitter in Plain English
Common Craft have another of their Explanations In Plain English; this time it’s for Twitter. I guess I ought to watch it myself, and actually *do* something, rather than just having an account that’s pretty dormant there….
Citizendium
I’ve heard about Citizendium a few times in the last few days. Today was, however, the first time that I went to it. It’s founded by Larry Sanger – one of the founders of Wikipedia. The aims of the site are: * We aim at credibility, not just quantity. * Open to public participationgently guided…
Massively Multilearner 08
Conference Website A useful day. This was the second of the MML events I’d attended. Schome Anna Peachey gave an update on the Schome project (which includes more than just SecondLife!) Some useful points – e.g. “Governance” both as learning & real (to work out prim counts, AUP etc). Much of final build (funding now…
Periodic Table of the Internet
Wellington Grey has developed a periodic table of the internet, with groupings such as “Search Engines”, “Blogs”, “Social Networking” etc., I like the navigation icons as well….
Many Eyes
Another rather nifty visualisation tool. I’ve already pointed out Gapminder, and more recently, linked to maps representing a US view of news. In the past, I’ve also looked at some of the sites that present visual maps of the results of searches. ( Kartoo, Quintura [and Quintura for kids] and Touchgraph [which now has a…
6 Adobe AIR apps
ReadWriteWeb have a list of useful AIR applications. I’ve just tried the Google Analytics application – it’s useful. Perhaps a little fiddly to set up profiles, as it seems that I have to enter the username & password to set up each profile – even when I have several sites tied to a single login….
Final goodbye for early web icon
Goodbye Netscape Navigator… like so many others, I used Netscape when I started out online. Now, I tend to use Flock, Firefox and IE on a fairly equal basis. I’ve rather drifted away from Opera though….
I think I've found a reason for Twitter!
No, not to keep up with Educational Technology, but Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered! Via: Alexs Krotoski…