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Craigsnews

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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Edublogs 2005

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,

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More mainstream blogging

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"

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Mailing list

I'm pleased to announce that we now have a mailing list for Elgg development. We request that discussion is limited to programming and architecture issues (as opposed to feature requests and non-technical discussion); there may be a mailing list for those issues in the future. To sign up,

Computer use

Sometimes it's good to put the keyboard down and get away from the computer for a couple of days, particularly after some weeks of heavy use. As much as the digital world helps to bring people together and simplifies tasks that would otherwise be near-impossible, I often find

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Venerable art museum goes online

Eye Level: the Smithsonian's first blog. Does anyone know of any other museum blogs?

Remote posting

Lately I've been doing all my Elgg posting in w.bloggar, a small Windows client that sits in my taskbar next to the system clock. It's not that the Elgg interface is in any way bad (although I would say that); however, being able to post

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Anyone can edit

Why Wikipedia isn't always a great research tool.

Switching

Google are paying $1 for every user switched to Firefox from Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why would they do this? Any web developer will tell you - IE is buggy, standards-incompliant, sometimes radically different from version to version and ultimately, frankly, a pain in the bum. The linked page isn'

Mailing list

We're looking to start a development open-access mailing list. Can anyone recommend / offer reliable hosting? We're open to commercial services, university-affiliated servers, as long as it's going to stick around for a while.

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Mainstream and then some

The Playstation Portable is now a fully capable podcasting client. A host of big players seem to be getting into podcasting at the ground level - right now it's basically a hack that sits on top of weblog technology, but where will it be in five years? This

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RSS feeds in mail clients

I think, before too long, RSS feeds aggregated like this will be common practice. Users are all familiar with email, and placing the aggregator in a message-based context actually provides new functionality for content providers too - they can save bandwidth by letting people pull in the new content they&