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Dave's already written about it, but because I'm totally psyched - that's a technical term - about the project, I thought I'd also put down a few words. Elgg Spaces will be a turnkey solution that allows anyone to sign up and,
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/09/wikiality-the-revolution-will-not-be-verified/ There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over at Wikipedia about the satirist Stephen Colbert. In an item on his Colbert Report show last week, he coined the term wikiality - a wiki take on reality, that anyone can edit. In an
Steve O'Hear has written a piece on e-learning 2.0 for Richard MacManus's Read/Write Web. Elgg is briefly mentioned, with the promise of more to follow in part 2. This is a good article, and already there has been quite a useful comment: This exact
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The entirety of one of the best documentaries I've seen on media, journalism and the Iraq war is available to view for free, courtesy of Google Video. I'm blown away that they have this; if you have an hour and twenty five minutes to spare, this
Via Dave Winer, I see that American Airlines now offers their fare deals and special offers via RSS. They're the first major non-tech company I know to do so, but they won't be the last. The reason? RSS is going mainstream. In a few months, Windows
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/08/web-20-its-the-same-old-media/ Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington has posted a 24-minute documentary about Web 2.0. If you’re unsure about what the read-write web is or are new to the whole community, this may be an interesting watch; otherwise it’s kind of banal.
Browsespace and Schoolboredom are two sites that have sprung up to provide access to Myspace via a proxy server. In a nutshell, pupils can use these sites to completely bypass their institutional firewalls. Expect many more like this to spring up at least as fast as they can be blocked;
This is all over the web, so sorry if you've read it a thousand times already today. However: Remember Google's Department of Justice victory, where the search corporation refused to hand our search details over to the US government? This was a combination of a principled
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I've just spent the weekend in Looe, Cornwall, where my sister is summer warden at a nature reserve. Needless to say I'm very proud of her - while I'm jetting all over the place and quietly ruining the environment with emissions and server electricity
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Quite a few people have sent me emails with links to the news that DOPA passed the House of Representatives by 410 to 15 votes, wondering how it affects Elgg. The Deleting Online Predators Act requires schools and libraries to prevent access to social networking sites. The big one the
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It's interesting to see the Slashdot take on what's been a contentious issue in the e-learning community in recent days. The consensus seems to be that the likes of Moodle and Sakai are better anyway - and a certain amount of anti-Blackboard bile has been drawn
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Further to this morning's post comes news on Techcrunch about Zune, a portable, iPod-style entertainment device that will "show the full spectrum of audio and video content, as well as social networking". The social networking aspect may be important, because it implies some kind of identity