Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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If, back in 2004, you'd told me that Elgg would be compatible with WebCT, one of the most important elearning platforms out there, I would have laughed in your face. But today, this is a reality: Aperto eLearning Solutions and Curverider Ltd are working together to provide WebCT
The Institute for the Future of the Book has lots of interesting things, not least the coolest banner image I think I've ever seen. Further in, you'll see Next/Text, a blog that asks itself what happens when textbooks go digital and "seeks to encourage
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http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/13/the-brrreeeport-report/ How do the blog search engines compare for accuracy and timeliness? This unscientific test aims to reveal the differences.
http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2006/02/eportfolio_roun.html "The only product I'd currently recommend is the excellent Elgg ... suitable for use with all ages of learners which has a ton of unique and innovative features." High praise. Thanks, Josie!
I've got to admit to being a bit uneasy about Microsoft's upcoming conference in Las Vegas, Mix '06. Maybe it's the chummy way the website proclaims it's a "72 hour conversation". Maybe it's the friendly but oh-so-slightly
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http://www.nymag.com/news/media/15972/ An interesting graph of how the 50 most popular weblogs out in the wild link to each other. Looking at this, one gets the feeling that a side effect of web-based social networking is cliques. How can we avoid it? How does someone
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http://www.campfirenow.com/ "Easy group chat for business has arrived." Not just for business, I'd wager. I've set up a test chat room to try it out: http://benwerd.campfirenow.com/room/2905
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This is all a bit experimental, but I've just asked Elgg to post any new items from my del.icio.us feed with the keyword "linklog" to my main blog. When the RSS gets grabbed later on tonight, you should see a link to Wired News.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html "Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time."
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Yahoo have released their user interface library free under the open source BSD license. Their bid to become darlings of the blogger set continues apace.
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Goodbye Skype, it was nice knowing you: the eBay-owned Voice over IP firm has agreed to cripple their software on non-Intel machines. If you log in with a PC based on an AMD chip, as many are, the number of people you can conference with is halved, for no reason
The resource tab is one of the most powerful features in Elgg. Each resource is a feed of information from either within Elgg or elsewhere on the web, which you can view on its own or together on an aggregated page that looks a bit like a weblog. How does