Category Archives: Webloggia

Northern Voice Weblog Conference — Deadline Looms

One more week to get your speaker submissions in for Northern Voice. We had a blast last year, and judging from the submissions so far it promises to be another humdinger. You need not step forward to deliver a whole … Continue reading

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The Thunderbird soars

Some very cool, very exciting stuff is happening at UBC’s School of Journalism.  The process is still in its early stages, but if you want to get a sense of where things are headed, check out what’s going on with … Continue reading

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The power of positive narcissism does it again

Checking my referrer stats I was sent to the new (to me) weblog The Open Classroom (great title), which pointed me toward this nugget from the blog of proximal development (another dandy moniker): …it occurred to me that I have … Continue reading

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Get thee behind me, Moose

All I have to do today is justify my continued existence at the University (preparing a detailed, itemized, budgeted account of projects and activities within the next hour or so), host an event featuring guests from the Open Source Learning … Continue reading

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Timely reviews of multi-user blog tools…

As I mentioned last week, I was surprised by how many EDUCAUSE attendees were at least thinking about launching weblog projects on their campuses. They really should check out James Farmer’s reviews of multi-user blog tools. It does not claim … Continue reading

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A moose, loose…

That’s right, another two-fisted episode of Northern Voice is in production. The first go-round was a blast, and I couldn’t be happier to be working again with the organizers. We’ll be doing it at UBC Robson Square, in downtown Vancouver, … Continue reading

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What I’m banging on…

The picture above represents the “to-do” lists for a couple of courses that we are supporting this semester. (Thankfully in both cases, most of these to-do’s are ta-done.) In each case, we are setting up weblogs for each student, as … Continue reading

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If you don’t build it, they’ll build their own…

I was pleasantly surprised when a friend sent me a link to a Livejournal site run by UBC students. Websnob that I am, I’ve never spent much time with Livejournal, but judging by the activity on the site it’s more … Continue reading

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Could this be possible? A successful weblog migration and upgrade.

I’m sure that we’ll be finding some small bugs over the next week or so, but based on my initial pass the transition to new system and server seems to have gone better than I could have hoped. A long, … Continue reading

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Server Upgrade (and Service Interruption) for Webloggers@UBC

This post is for people who use the Weblogs@UBC service. Hello again, UBC bloggers! This is a reminder for the upgrade to MT3.1 scheduled on August 19th/20th. Starting at 10pm PST on Friday, Aug. 19th, you will NOT be able … Continue reading

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