Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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... Inter-opra-bil-i-tee First comes love Then comes marriage And then comes the Elgg Moodle integration block, courtesy of Catalyst. Thanks to Penny, Martin and the team for their hard work on this awesome functionality. To clarify: the Elgg side of the integration comes out of the box with Elgg 0.6,
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You may have read about 'net neutrality' in the papers recently, or maybe seen it on TV. At first glance it seems like a simple business issue: telecommunications providers, who own the cables and data links that form the Internet backbone, want to be able to prioritise data
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It's taken a lot of work, but as you may have seen on the news blog, Elgg 0.6 final is now available to download. What's been really awesome about this release is the input from the wider community. As the system has matured, we'
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Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has a piece about the O'Reilly / Web 2.0 trademark issue that I mentioned yesterday. O'Reilly are asserting that Web 2.0 is their trademark, thereby assuring everyone they've well and truly jumped the shark in terms of
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This is slightly depressing: a potential student, stuck in his cubicle job and desperate for the qualification he needs to get out, is hoping to pay for his MBA course by selling 10,000 3"x3" art squares for $5 each. Best of luck to him, says I.
Something I've observed in the years I've been working on Elgg is the dynamic between the people who produce tools and the academics who talk about using them. Which is this: while there are mechanisms in place for an academic project to get funding to talk
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A Chicago high school student is facing explusion for talking about his school in his personal blog. The ease of publishing that blogging affords has allowed us to see more clearly things that have been going on forever. I know when I was at school people felt bullied by the
The other day I talked about investing in the Elgg project through contributing to the development community. There is also another, even simpler way, that requires no outlay or really even much of an effort. It's this: If you're using Elgg, tell us. We're
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Can anyone recommend a Unicode-enabled (must support the Chinese character set) questionnaire/survey system? It can be free, open source, paid-for, installable or centrally hosted.
Business Week has an article from a couple of days ago about the masses of investment money being poured into social networking systems in the wake of Myspace's sale (and we all know what I think about that). A piece of Facebook costs a mean $25 million; Bebo
Shunning Dave's wise advice, I'm waiting for a brand new Dell laptop to be delivered. The machine I type this on has been a very useful workhorse for the past few years, and I'd recommend it to anyone after a laptop on a budget,
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Slate have an interesting hack that allows for 'textcasting' - basically a way to read text from a feed on an iPod.