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Spam is, unfortunately, an issue. As a site becomes popular, it starts to attract more and more unwanted attention from unscrupulous people who want to add their unwanted advertising, usually through weblog comments and discussion board postings. What's the point? Basically, the more links to a site there
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Last night I was in Mariposa, in the Yosemite foothills, and stopped into a burger joint. It was a typical family-run place, with $5 meals and the kind of welcoming, friendly atmosphere mixed with slight distrust that you only get in small-town America. There was a big TV
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Apologies to anyone trying to get hold of me for the next couple of days. I'll be on the road - or rather, in the air - travelling to California. My connectivity there should be pretty good, so I'll be back online by Monday.
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An odd one this afternoon. Can anyone recommend any good free or open source exam grade management software aimed at a university level that will record as much of the following as possible: Initial, resit and final test scores Any changes to those Weighted averages Additionally we'd preferably
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Yahoo will be offering Movable Type services. Together with the recent del.icio.us purchase and existing properties like Upcoming and Flickr, plus Six Apart's upcoming, consumer-orientated Project Comet, I predict a Six Apart acquisition in five .. four .. three .. two ..
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The origins of hypertext, from 1945: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush Worth a read if you haven't already.
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Yahoo! has bought del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. What is del.icio.us? Users sign up and save bookmarks to a centralised server. These are sorted by tags, so that not only can you see every site you've ever saved using the keyword "Noam Chomsky&
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Elgg 0.31 has left the building and can be downloaded from Eduforge. This is a bug-fix release and doesn't include the Your Resources tab. (That's very much under development, but if you want to have a play, that's part of the subversion
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I've got the view all posts screen set up as a permanent button on my browser's link bar, and check it more often than is probably healthy. My excuse is that I've got to keep everything in healthy working order, which is reasonable, right?
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Christopher D. Sessums pointed me to this post by Graham Attwell about VLEs. Graham suggests that: We assume students will provide their own word processors - be they proprietary or open source. Why then do we persist in providing e-learning systems. Not because of generosity I would suggest but because
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Google: ten golden rules. These all make perfect sense. In terms of building a product, I think the most important is easily eat your own dog food. In other words, use your own product. Not just test it, but actually use it, in the way you want your users to