social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Thanks to the miraculous spam-cleaning bot, WikiSpam is effortlessly swept from our public site at regular intervals. The fact that scumsucking spammers cannot keep their links up for more than an hour or two has not dissuaded them. Indeed, I can only marvel at their persistence and inventiveness.
One disturbing tactic is to spam [...]
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Oh my, it’s been a while since I blogged, hasn’t it? There’s a substantial backlog of post-worthy items that have accumulated over the past week or so… but that is not why I’m finally hauling off on the keyboard right now.
No, what’s foremost in my so-called mind is a full-day workshop on “learning [...]
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I’ve been too quiet about the many hot-shot 18 wheeler WikiRigs I’ve been seeing on the highway. I’m not talking horsepower, though Jotspot and Wikka (or is that Wakka) look like hard driving diesel engines that can turn on a dime. Nah, what I’m jabbering on about are slick operators tricking out their [...]
Spin your minimalist grooves via this intuitive, feline-based interface.
Via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, which recently pointed me to this amazing site that links bands to each other by common members. Ever wondered how many degrees of separation between Blondie and Black Sabbath? The answer is right here!
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I don’t link to Gardner Campbell nearly often enough. What usually happens is that he raises issues in his posts (or over a number of posts) that demand more engagement than my usual glib pose allows. I risk revealing my ignorance in all its shallow glory. Witness his most recent post, [...]
Roland makes a similar point to one that was made by Suzanna — that the Northern Voice weblog conference would have benefited from a more diverse roster of presenters and panelists.
I can say that this concern was discussed by organizers when we planned the event, and that the final program reflected the submissions that [...]
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I get it from an extremely reliable source that the technical infrastructure beneath the fair dominion of CogDogBloggia has suffered a serious blow. It may be 24 hours or more until we are able to read Alan’s wit and wisdom again. But fear not, all evidence indicates that no content has been damaged. [...]
I’ve been following the efforts of James and D’Arcy to assess mutli-user blogging systems with great interest. It’s been clear for some time that our existing weblog project needs to go to the next level if we are to sustain our current growth rate.
At this point in time, I am prepared to stick with [...]
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I never did write a summary of the weblog conference. In part that’s because it was such a blast on so many levels, and such a frenetic burst of activity, that I am simply overwhelmed at the thought of trying to wrap it all up. Furthermore, this was by far the most intensely [...]
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