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Scuttle: Online Bookmarks Manager
http://scuttle.org/ A GPL del.icio.us clone written in PHP/MySQL.
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Working hard (with beer)
Working hard (with beer), originally uploaded by Ben Werdmuller. The things we do for Elgg - after a hard day presenting and consulting, we retired to the bar to do yet more project work. It's a busy life! (Photo taken by Dave on my slightly grainy Nokia phone.)
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MySpace and collective knowledge
Bill Fitzgerald put me onto this talk by Danah Boyd: Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. It's a good overview to the cultural issues surrounding teens on MySpace. It's a small Internet: I'm already familiar with Danah through her excellent
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Greetings from the snow
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A programmer in New York
Dave and I are pleased to be in New York State talking about Elgg and the Learning Landscape. We're very happy to have been invited and hope to foster an interesting conversation about the role of this approach in a K12 setting. I hope we can provide a
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Schools Interoperability Framework schema
http://www.sifinfo.org/sif-specification.asp
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Filtering folksonomies
Further to my previous post about algorithms for authority, Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags is an article in D-Lib Magazine that talks about the problems and possibilities involved with modern folksonomies. At the moment, many investigations of tag data are in progress, including how tags can be used for searching.
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Oh, what a year (kottke.org)
http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year Jason Kottke decides not to be a full-time blogger for another year, in part because writing a blog all day long just isn't that interesting. A lesson for us all: don't blog for the sake
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Defining authority
Shel Israel, on his Naked Conversations blog, has an interesting comment about Technorati's filter by authority feature. It seems to have been inspired by Google, in the sense that authoritative blogs are considered to be the ones more widely linked to, an approach to which Shel responds: Big
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It's upgrade time
It may surprise you to learn that my main computer - the one that 90% of Elgg code was written on - is a Toshiba Satelite Pro A10 laptop I bought for
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Does this mean we're part of the gang now?
LOGO2.0 part II Originally uploaded by Stabilo Boss. It's a lump of web 2.0 logos - and somehow Elgg's made it in, just to the bottom right of Skype. I'm not sure what we've done to, er, deserve this, but it
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A missed funding opportunity for Transport for London?
http://www.digitalhome.plus.com/tube/sponsors.pdf A groan-worthy tube map where every station name has been ever-so-slightly altered in order to attract a corporate sponsor.