Monthly Archives: June 2005

Is it a wiki? A floor wax? A dessert topping?

Yet another application to keep me tantalized and humbled all at once… I’ve been spotting TiddlyWiki in my peripheral vision for some time now, but only over the past couple days have I fixed my gaze on it. So far … Continue reading

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Inspirational prose from Franz Kafka

This day has been a psychic cesspool, making me all too receptive to notions such as these: When I think it over, I must say that my education has in many ways done me great harm. This reproach falls on … Continue reading

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Now, if only someone could help me to visualise the change in my frontal lobe…

Jon Udell’s latest screencast on visualizing change is the usual mind-expanding stuff. I only had a few minutes to follow through on the links, but those few minutes not only snagged me a nifty tool for viewing editorial processes in … Continue reading

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An aggRSSive crash course in brain surgery

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)

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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Weblogs as a teaching and scholarship tool

Here at the UBC Town Hall… I normally don’t blog sessions, but I’ll make an exception in this case, as this is a topic very close to my heart. A group of TAs in the Department of English (my old … Continue reading

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Where do you want to go today? How about a labour camp?

Microsoft Corp. is cooperating with China’s government to censor the company’s newly launched Chinese-language Web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said. The policy affects Web logs, or blogs, created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a … Continue reading

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Let’s just ease back into this… my first Blog-Ha moment.

Well, it’s been a long time, been a long time, been a lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time…. I don’t want to throw my back out by blogging too rigorously, so I’m going to make my first entry back an … Continue reading

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