Proposal: EduFilter
Here's something I've been thinking about for a while, that I'd like to throw out to the wider community. There doesn't seem to be one place for us all to read about new announcements in the e-learning space or discuss the
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LJ to offer ads; moot because we're all redundant anyway
Gasp! LiveJournal is to introduce advertising. This wouldn't be such a big issue had they not been insisting they would never introduce advertising for the seven years they've been around. This is another illustration of the difficulties of funding an open source project. LJ has been
Enhancing data interoperability
It's very rare that I'll find myself endorsing a Microsoft technology, but this may be genius: And what of the promise beyond weblogs for feed-based publish and subscribe? Today’s user experience is certainly constraining what might be. After thinking about this for a while
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A space on the web that we control
Steve O'Hear writes about Elgg in the Guardian: The learner-centric approach and social networking aspect of Elgg make it very different from more traditional virtual learning environments (VLEs), which are usually structured around courses, timetables and assessment. "Whereas Elgg is learner-centred, the VLE systems tend
myYearbook - You've Got Friends!
http://www.myyearbook.com/index.php File this somewhere between Facebook and MySpace - it's the latter, but filtered by school era and aimed specifically at students. Includes a special account for educators.
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/ Best usage principles for a bunch of different development scenarios. Valuable.
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eyeOS
http://www.eyeos.org/Languages/English EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten applications.
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Send it down in your notebook, my wannabe Harriet the Spy
I learned about some of the perils of weblogging at a very young age - before there was really a web to speak of (although Tim Berners Lee was already experimenting over at CERN). I spent fifth grade in Parkwood, a suburb of Durham, North Carolina. It was a nice school
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The Lit List / Stories
http://www.thelitlist.com/ "The Lit List is a site where readers can submit links to online fiction from around the web and vote for their favorites." I've been looking for something like this for a while.
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AOL still don't get the Internet
http://benwerd.newsvine.com:80/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.
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AOL still don't get the Internet
http://benwerd.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.
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How specific content for search engines may be destroying the web - and information
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114116587424585798-0qH9qUYuUug__vRSFKGvxIEwLGw_20070301.html?mod=blogs "In fact, search engines are more like a TV camera crew let loose in the middle of a crowd of rowdy fans after a game. Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in