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Upgrading ...
The server has now been fully upgraded to Elgg version 0.4, which will be released very shortly.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Podcasting
About to run off, but just noticed that Jon Snow is podcasting. Best UK news, by far - nice to see them trying something new.
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RSS copyright
There's an interesting thread about RSS plagiarism surrounding a handful of blogs at the moment. The central question is whether aggregation sites (one called Top Ten Sources in particular) that reproduce content from RSS feeds in full is a violation of copyright law. Jim Moore, of Harvard Law
Feed icons
There's a new standard icon for RSS feeds, adopted by both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation, so it'll be in Internet Explorer, Windows Vista, all new versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, and presumably a gazillion other places besides. Here's an explanatory blog post.
Decentralized Information Group
Ooh, it also turns out that Tim Berners-Lee, he who invented the web, now works for the Decentralized Information Group at MIT, which lists as its mission: application of Semantic Web techniques to specific application domains such as life sciences research, libraries and digital repositories, and peer-to-peer social networking applications.
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Nuvvo vs Moodle
Nuvvo continues to get a fair amount of publicity, and now it seems they've made it onto TechCrunch with a feature comparison vs Moodle. Has anyone used it that can shed any light on how good it is, whether it produces feeds etc?
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On Web tools
For a while now I've been intercutting this weblog with various discoveries and thoughts regarding new web technologies, be they server or browser based. 2005 was quite exciting for that sort of thing - I'm still in love with Writely, for example, and although they'
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Elgg, not del.icio.us
If you're interested, can hear me being briefly interviewed on WorldBridges as part of today's EdTechTalk. Thanks again to Dave and Jeff for having me, and I promise to sound a little less nervous next time . Listening back through the stream, I wanted to briefly set
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Podzinger
Podzinger lets you search through podcasts, using speech recognition technology of the type used by the CIA. In other words, it creates text transcripts from podcasts and then lets you search them - a feature that has all kinds of uses beyond search. I'm consistently surprised, for example,
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A recommendation
For those of you looking for a handy way to download RSS feeds and podcasts, as well as a pretty neat email reader, Thunderbird 1.5 is out today. I've used previous versions for my personal mail (although I recently switched to Gmail for convenience) and will upgrade
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For later reference
The 6 Myths of Creativity.
Mobile TV
There's a mobile TV conference next to my office again - the next big thing is apparently going to be television beamed into our cellphones, for which we will apparently pay good money. I don't know about any of you, but I don't think