Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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Yahoo! has bought del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. What is del.icio.us? Users sign up and save bookmarks to a centralised server. These are sorted by tags, so that not only can you see every site you've ever saved using the keyword "Noam Chomsky&
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Elgg 0.31 has left the building and can be downloaded from Eduforge. This is a bug-fix release and doesn't include the Your Resources tab. (That's very much under development, but if you want to have a play, that's part of the subversion repository.
I've got the view all posts screen set up as a permanent button on my browser's link bar, and check it more often than is probably healthy. My excuse is that I've got to keep everything in healthy working order, which is reasonable, right?
Christopher D. Sessums pointed me to this post by Graham Attwell about VLEs. Graham suggests that: We assume students will provide their own word processors - be they proprietary or open source. Why then do we persist in providing e-learning systems. Not because of generosity I would suggest but because
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Google: ten golden rules. These all make perfect sense. In terms of building a product, I think the most important is easily eat your own dog food. In other words, use your own product. Not just test it, but actually use it, in the way you want your users to
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Here's a genuinely useful application of RSS that puts you in touch with how your country is run. US citizens: here's a list of the members of the House as provided by the Washington Post. Click on one and you get their voting record - plus
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Sitting on my desk is a call for entries to the 2005 Webby Awards, which will be announced on December 16th. According to the neon quotes blazing across the flyer, these are "the online Oscars", "the index of success in the global new media scene"; an
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For all those who know what to do with this, Elgg at long last has a working Subversion repository! We've enabled anonymous read access, so anyone can get the latest version of the code. The address is svn:// elgg.net/devel/.
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Speaking of mainstream blogging, I should have mentioned. There's some buzz about Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, creating a new, citizen-based news medium. He spoke about it at the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event at Sa
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Elgg is shortlisted under 'most innovative edublogging project, service or programme' for the 2005 Edublog Awards. Thanks to everyone who nominated us - Dave and I didn't nominate ourselves, so it's someone out there. We don't see Elgg as a blogging platform,
The BBC has started weblogging. Although the feedback we receive is overwhelmingly positive, I still get criticisms that the medium is for teenagers and slackers, and has no use in a knowledge-sharing environment. One critic even suggested that incorporating blogging and similar technologies was "riding a hype wave"