Monthly Archives: May 2005

We interrupt this pleasant silence to make a series of tiresome excuses…

My silence is not indicative of a lack of interest in the weblog world… nah, there’s much going on worthy of attention, and some of my favorite bloggers have been on fire lately. But ever since I got back from … Continue reading

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On the question of ads in RSS feeds

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Tags (and Northern Voice) get some love from a Hogtown rag

How cool… Vancouver-based supergenius Alexandra Samuel (I gotta meet this person!) has published a piece intended to render the “tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience” in one of Canada’s biggest newspapers (free registration may be required). … Continue reading

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Feedback loop: a podcast resource weblog…

As a cumulative assessment project for one of my Office’s co-op work-placement students, I asked Frank Pan to develop a weblog/resource to support personal audio production and podcasting. As usual, I was pretty vague in my instructions to him (in … Continue reading

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No reflection please…

I’ve been back for four days now, and I’m still enjoying the rush I got attending the Faculty Academy at the University of Mary Washington. I need to post something to at least briefly capture some of the observations and … Continue reading

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On the futility of (me) conference blogging…

[Reporting semi-live from the UMW Faculty Academy…] I am a terrible conference blogger. But textual silence is not indicative of a lack of interest on my part… quite the opposite. I’ve been having a blast through most of the sessions, … Continue reading

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They blew my mind at the In-N-Out

My great deficiency as a weblogger is that I never write the posts I really want to write. If I feel genuinely engaged with a topic, I defer the actual writing of it endlessly — mulling it over, adding elements, … Continue reading

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Linkchecking Software – Yes, it’s another cry for help…

I’m working with a unit on campus who have some stimulating challenges ahead of them. UBC’s Careers Online is [one of] the university’s most visited website[s] (about 1,000 distinct visits per day from students). Most of the visitors who log … Continue reading

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They report, they don’t always decide

I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by the friction points between weblogs and traditional journalism. This commentary by the NPR Ombudsman points to a recent episode: NPR’s Vicky O’Hara reported on a Defense Department document, which exonerated U.S. military personnel [in the … Continue reading

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What do universities need to support weblogs?

A rare and welcome victory on the professional front. A project proposal submitted with partners at BCIT and UVic Distance Ed was awarded with significant funding from BCCampus’ Online Program Development Fund. (We should also have a private sector partner … Continue reading

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