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Mooting Moodle
Around the corner from my office they're holding the Moodle Moot 2005 - the UK & Ireland Moodle conference. I wonder if there are any Elgg users present?
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Wiki learning
Hidden away in this Guardian article is a mention of one of the Wikimedia Foundation's upcoming projects post-Wikipedia: a free, online curriculum stretching from kindergarten to university. I know about WikiBooks, but this ounds like something more - I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for
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Recent activity
I'm building a 'recent activity' page that will allow you to view activity on your account performed by other users - for example comments left on weblog posts, friends and unfriends. I'm also going to build a personal 'tag cloud' page, which will
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Graphs
Elgg currently outputs some very simply DOT code at elgg.net/_dotty. I originally had the script include the "news" user, which most people have retained on their friends list, which yielded the following friendship diagram: {{file:1294}} I've since removed it, and the results - {{file:
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Monday progress report
Dave's been doing a great job importing some cool themes and getting the software ready for internationalisation. Neither Dave nor I speak anything other than English, but we've got a development installation running in a delightful shade of Babelfish French. Once we've got the
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Elgg, defined
Worth reading if you have any interest in Elgg specifically or learning software in general: What is Elgg?
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Top down authority
This was originally a handful of posts on my personal weblog @ apcala.com, but I thought I'd repost here to see what Elgg.net members think. Poor old Dave Winer. Obviously times have been a little hard of late for the RSS and podcasting pioneer, who recently declared
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Logo competition
A quick reminder: the Elgg logo competition only has a couple more days left! Have a go!
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Ch-ch-changes
We've had a couple of changes today, courtesy of Mr Tosh - 'Templates' are now known as 'Themes', and you'll find your friends groups under 'Access'. We think these terms are less confusing and more closely describe the functionality in question.
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Hosting, logos
We're really keen for people to try out their own Elgg installations, which is why we've created this hosting deal - we'll give you a gigabyte of server space and install the latest version of the software for you, so you can mess about with
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Elgg, Ben, Dave, the future
After a small amount of tinkering, the Elgg Features community is back online. As am I, after a short hiatus in a wooden house on the water with not so much as a telephone. As much as I love sailing and getting back to nature, it's good to
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Elgg release ...
The next Elgg release will happen either tonight or tomorrow night - Dave and I will confer on the version number, but I suspect it won't have an "a" or "b" suffix. We've made so many changes, and some really excellent contributions have