From the monthly archives:

January 2005

I said I’d blog but I lied

January 31, 2005

Whoa Nellie… I keep saying I’m going to slow things down, that time taken out of the hurly-burly for reflection can only improve my performance… but I seem incapable of extricating myself from the day-to-day.
I had hoped to write blog posts on:
* A couple of inspiring dispatches from Lawrence Lessig (here and here) from the [...]

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Wiki Waky Woo on Bourbon Street

January 24, 2005

I’m a lucky, dirty dog.
The fabulous city of New Orleans (think Montreal crossed with Sodom and Gomorrah — but with way better food and music) for this year’s NLII Annual Meeting.
I just gave my presentation — a fairly standard wiki overview, at least intended as one — which was elevated by a tremendous room. [...]

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A couple great UBC weblogs

January 20, 2005

Scott plugsTim Wang’s Education Blog today. I second the endorsement. Tim does outstanding work with UBC’s Faculty of Arts (in particular some excellent learning object authoring and language learning tools), and he shares his considerable insights on his blog — including some very unique perspectives on what is happening with eLearning in China.
While I’m [...]

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Can it be possible?

January 18, 2005

Nofollow… wonder how this will kick in?

From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no [...]

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Blogfolios – Something else for me to mess up…

January 18, 2005

I must make a confession. I’ve never quite “gotten” ePortfolios. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea to give students a webspace in which they can collect work, reflect on their learning, and present themselves. What has always thrown me is why we need a whole new set of [...]

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Gardner Campbell on the Pew Report

January 12, 2005

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Just as I thought…

January 6, 2005

…euphoria was fleeting. About half the weblogs don’t seem to be accessible to users. When you select the editing menu for a weblog after logging in, all that results is a charming error screen. There’s the old favorite…

500 Server Error

Spiced up now and then with a dash of:

panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen [...]

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Back from the dead

January 6, 2005

As I slowly regained my strength over the Christmas holidays, I made a few vague resolutions for what I hoped would be a fresh start in 2005. I would try to read a bit more from actual books, even if it was at the expense of my online fun. I would try to [...]

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