Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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Due to feedback from extensiveusability testing (both formal and the informal feedback we've received by running elgg.net since November), the Elgg interface is due to change massively. Dave already posted a sneak peek, and we've since got it working on our development site. Here'
Hmmm ... What's particularly interesting about this is the choice of plog as the blogging engine, as I have it on fairly good authority that it falls over with a high volume of hits. It'll be an interesting one to watch.
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I've just successfully downloaded the 0.2 release from Eduforge, but a worryingly large number of people are reporting download problems. If you have had problems, could you please reply with: 1. Your rough geographical location (eg, I'm in southern England) 2. Your browser and operating
We've been playing with a rich-text editor for posting to weblogs etc lately, and although it more or less works, I'm not completely happy about its integration. It feels plunked-in rather than a contiguous part of the user interface, and that's something I'
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Embedded in an old interview in the Guardian with Skype's founder is a link to AltNet, which is "a secure file-sharing network where content owners promote their content with ad-words. Files can be encrypted and protected, then the rights owner decides if the files can be sold
Flock sounds interesting: a social web browser. Unfortunately it's on a private beta at the moment, but features apparently include a wysiwyg editor for posting to weblogs [1], built-in social bookmarking a la del.icio.us, and a bunch of other features as this review reveals: But it
I posted the following article over on my personal blog but I thought I'd post it here too, because it exactly fits my vision of not only how things are going to go, but also how they should go. That goes for the Web in general and Elgg
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Is technology in schools the future or just a fad? The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel talks about e-learning. (An aside: when something gets covered in local papers, does that mean it's hit the mainstream?) A brief read seems to suggest people don't know what to do with computers
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It isn't perfect yet, but personal tag clouds are available at: your username So for example, mine is at http://elgg.net/bwerdmuller/tags/ and Dave's is at http://elgg.net/dtosh/tags. I'm keeping them unlinked until they're how I want
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Okay, so I was probably overoptimistic about the personal tag clouds and geographic details, but this week they will definitely appear. I'm also seriously looking at WebDAV - the ability to mount your file repository as a drive is incredibly attractive. Shouldn't be too hard to
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Around the corner from my office they're holding the Moodle Moot 2005 - the UK & Ireland Moodle conference. I wonder if there are any Elgg users present?
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Hidden away in this Guardian article is a mention of one of the Wikimedia Foundation's upcoming projects post-Wikipedia: a free, online curriculum stretching from kindergarten to university. I know about WikiBooks, but this ounds like something more - I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for