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An aggRSSive crash course in brain surgery

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Brian

Now that I have totally botched my half-baked plans for a gentle launch, maybe I should give a quick overview of what aggRSSive actually is… I should note I am writing this post in extreme haste (I’m off work today, … Continue reading →

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A learning object repository in motion (feeling a little bit aggRSSive)

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Brian

Update: I meant to hold off posting the link until I added more feeds to the collection and polished a couple things. I also hope to point out more features which we need to make easier to find. But I’m … Continue reading →

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This whole syndication thing is sucking me down the drain…

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Brian

RSS Fountain, originally uploaded by Orin Optiglot. It was more than four years ago that Stephen Downes whipped up a custom version of his edu_rss application for the Merlot conference being held here in Vancouver. It scanned the posts of … Continue reading →

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Musings on mashups in the university… are we getting anywhere?

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Brian

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A mess …, originally uploaded by asmundur. So yesterday was UBC’s e-Learning Open House, which is … Continue reading →

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Mashing Up the Open Education Conference

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Brian

This is the fourth consecutive year I have headed to Utah, attending an event that has evolved into the Open Education Conference, a wonderful mix of open source developers, open content evangelists, and social software enthusiasts — all dedicated to … Continue reading →

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We now begin our ascent…

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Brian

Don’t call it a comeback, or a blogfunk, Abject Learning was on vacation suckas, and now it’s back, lean and mean, mad as hell and taking names. I maintained admirable discipline during my time away, barely glimpsed my email, and … Continue reading →

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Croatian Diary

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Brian

The past few days have been exhausting, demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, humbling and confusing and wonderful. Usually some combination thereof. I’ve really grooved on Croatia. Zagreb is a fine city, with the architecture and atmosphere of a great European centre, though … Continue reading →

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Symposium Blogweave – via del.icio.us, RSS, javascript…

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Brian

Irregular readers of this cozy lovenest of ed tech subversion may recall my participation in the recent Tronti weblog symposium. As expected, my own submission was more than a bit goofy, and barely relevant, but it was fun to do. … Continue reading →

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RSS for the UBC Library Catalogue!

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Brian

My long-time love for librarians (and for RSS) grows stronger over time. My heart goes all a-flutter at the introduction of RSS feeds for new items in the UBC Library. I could quibble — it would certainly be nice if … Continue reading →

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Ready for prime-time players? On the reliability of tagging…

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Brian

I posted last week about a distributed, tool-agnostic, tag-based framework for online discourse. It’s a key component for one of my looming grant applications — in terms of dollars requested it likely won’t be too big, but in terms of … Continue reading →

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