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The State of the Blogosphere for February 2006 has been released. Of course, it relates more to the blogs that the search engine / aggregator Technorati tracks than the sum total of blogs in the world, but it still makes interesting reading. The service is now tracking more than 50,000
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Dave Winer: How RSS can bust through. I'm tempted to disagree with him here. RSS itself will never bust through; neither will FOAF, RDF, OPML or any other XML-based format. And using a centralised service run by a commercial company? Forget it. It's an easy
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Elgg v0.4 has a bug where default icons might not be displayed on some screens. This patch fixes it; simply replace the included files. Update: This has been changed as of 9:26am GMT. Thanks to Misja for pointing out the problem.
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This is a web developer post, which I'm making because we're going to be retooling some of the edit interfaces shortly to become more user friendly. The programming work hasn't been done yet, and it's looking like some of the interface mechanics
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There's a lot going on at Elgg Towers at the moment, but I can't talk about any of it - so here's something completely different. The trouble with blogging as a medium is that we're likely to highlight new things, that in turn
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As Lars has pointed out, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is out on public beta. Here's the download link; the above picture is my friends page within its natty confines. (Click for a larger version.) I haven't yet checked what IE7 fixes; there was a lot IE6
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Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops. Interesting reading.
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{{file:3231}} Apologies for rambling :-) As I talk about the WYSIWYG editor and RSS cache specifically, I think it's important to credit the programmers involved: Misja Hoebe and Sven Edge respectively did the work required to bring those features to Elgg.
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Moodle have just released a documentation wiki which, like our very own Elgg Info, is presumably designed to be a living document that grows with time.
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Excuse me while I geek out: this set of web authoring statistics is required reading for web developers. Google sampled over a billion documents and discovered the kind of markup being used, and how it relates to the proposed HTML5 standards.
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Please excuse my dodgy camerawork, but this is Elgg on my Nokia: Pretty cool. Opera Mini is a great browser, and the new CSS/div based template engine makes life very easy for it.
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From the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Internet users have somewhat larger social networks than non-users. The median size of an American’s network of core and significant ties is 35. For internet users, the median network size is 37; for non-users it is 30. This survey