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November 2006
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StatCounter – great free web tracker (and why that's important)
http://www.statcounter.com/ As Stephen pointed out, a little while ago this blog began launching annoying pop-up windows on visitors’ browsers. Unbeknowst to me, the free stats program that I had used had a little clause in its user agreement that stated at any time it could choose to use the tracking image and code embedded in [...]
I got those "Stuck in the Airport Lounge" Blues
Now while in parts of Canada this image would seem commonplace, not so much in Victoria, B.C. where I live. If we get snow 1 day a year we’re usually lucky. Well Sunday the weather conspired to bring us well over a foot of snow, which fairly paralyzed the city. Lucky for me I work [...]
Quote of the Day
“All men are caught in a network of inescapable mutuality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
XERTE – Free Visual Editor for SCORM compliant Flash Learning Objects
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/Editor/ Wow, I feel really torn about posting about this at all. When I stumbled across this today I was quite excited; while the promise of content interoperability has been there for quite a while now, the availability of easy to use tools for producing such content outside of the CMS delivery environments has been [...]
dLCMS – Open Source LCMS built on Silva/Zope
http://www.dlcms.ethz.ch/ Ahhhh, love those Google searches. Whilst searching (and still seeking) information about the standards compliance of WebCT CE 6 content exports, I stumbled across this find, the dynamic Learning Content Management System. Built as an extension of the open source CMS called Silva, dLCMS bills itself as a “content management system for web based [...]
Familiar Taste – Greasemonkey script to help you remember what you've tagged
http://www.blackperl.com/javascript/greasemonkey/ft/ So after about the 100th time of trying to tag a site in del.icio.us that I’d already tagged before (early onset alzheimer’s?!? More likely the effects of my misspent youth), I thought to myself “Someone has got to have already built something that queries del.icio.us in the background and lets you know if you’ve [...]
Blogs to Advise Users of Server Status
http://openomystatus.blogspot.com/ The link above is just an example, but doesn’t this one seem obvious to anyone else? Blogs to inform your users about a server/services status – hosted SOMEWHERE ELSE if you’ve got a clue. Yet, I still get these interminable emails about planned server outtages, upgrades, etc., and NO communication after unplanned outtages actually [...]
Article – "Limits of self-organization: Peer production and 'laws of quality'"
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/duguid/� So at least 5 weeks ago, First Monday publishes this article by the co-author of The Social Life of Information, Paul Duguid, that asks questions about the oft-asserted transferability of “laws of quality” from open source software projects to the peer production of ‘knowledge’ in sites like Wikipedia, and literally almost no one replies [...]
Slightly Tongue in Cheek Presentation on "The Future of CMS"
So last Friday I gave a talk at the WCET conference titled “The Future CMS.” A flash version (13Mb) with both audio and slides is available, but if you’d prefer you can just grab the slides on their own (7Mb) (if you view them in ‘Notes’ mode you can pretty well see the full text [...]
Great Social Software Presentation from WCET 2006 Presentation
http://community.uaf.edu/~cde/wiki/SSW I am sitting in a session at the WCET 2006 conference in Portland listening to a really fabulous presentation by Chris Lott and Terry Anderson, amongst others. Chris is presenting with the above wiki, and offered up this tagcloud of affordences for education by social software as a new rubric to organize examples of [...]
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