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February 2007
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The Most Important Thing I Learned at Northern Voice Wasn't Part of Any Session
If Northern Voice was only to be measured by the quality of its sessions, that would be enough. Hopefully they will post the recordings soon so that people who weren’t there can hear some of them, but it’s rare to go to a conference with so few duds. If Northern Voice was only to be [...]
Mashups for Non-Programmers – an experiement gone slightly awry
So, we were one of the sessions first up at this morning’s Moosecamp. At the last minute we decided to change the format; originally we had wanted to try and stay true to the ‘camp’ ethos and do very little presenting and a lot of co-creating with the audience. But competition is fierce for attention [...]
My search is over – Yahoo Pipe to constrain search to linked to pages
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/zhmqsw_52xG4gUz8e_gC8A/ Wouldn’t you know it, a few seconds after I finish commenting on Tony Hirst’s blog that my personal quest has been a way to dynamically constrain a search to only those pages linked on any webpage, I actually read the entire post and learn that he had already done this! A simultaneous ‘Doh!’ and [...]
Martin Weller on Tony Hirst's Stringle
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/ 2007/02/stringle_almost.html and http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle2.php Martin Weller and Tony Hirst have joined Marc Eisenstadt as bloggers from the UK’s Open University whose posts I now eagerly await, so it’s a distinct pleasure to find Martin posting about Tony’s project, Stringle. I can almost hear the chorus now about how “a PLE is not an application” and [...]
Wikipatterns – Wiki Patterns
http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/ Brilliant idea. Hopefully the cogdog won’t mind me scooping this from his del.icio.us feed, but it was too delectable to pass up. Wikipatterns are exactly that, identified patterns of users and adoption to help guide new wiki builders towards success. Each of the patterns cites numerous illustrations from well known wikis. And…it’s a wiki, [...]
First Monday – Tragedy of the FOSS commons?
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/schweik/ First Monday can be a frustrating read some times, but I find almost every issue has at least one real gem like this. Charles Schweik and Robert English have published this important look at the role of “institutions” in the sustainability of FOSS projects. It’s critical to note their notion of “institution” which in [...]
First Canadian Moodle Moot
http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/index.php Hopefully all the Moodlers out there will already know about this through their regular Moodle forums, but I thought I’d give a shout out to the upcoming Canadian Moodle Moot being hosted May 3 – 5, 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta by Athabasca University and my own organization, BCcampus, amongst others. There looks to be [...]
Montastic – Free Website Monitoring Service
http://www.montastic.com/ I am responsible for a few web servers in addition to this blog, but in all of these cases they are servers that I don’t own or have root access to (nor any particular pull with the sys admins). For a while we kept having server outtages on one of them that would go [...]
Testing Out "Write to my BLog" site
On a tip from Alan, testing out the writetomyblog.com site . – SWL Addendum: So I tried out the writetomyblog.com site based on a for:nessman link from the CogDog. My one comment – while it provides a nice editing environment, it does not appear to integrate with my local Ultimate Tag Warrior database for tags, [...]
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