Something I've observed in the years I've been working on Elgg is the dynamic between the people who produce tools and the academics who talk about using them. Which is this: while there are mechanisms in place for an academic project to get funding to talk
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A Chicago high school student is facing explusion for talking about his school in his personal blog. The ease of publishing that blogging affords has allowed us to see more clearly things that have been going on forever. I know when I was at school people felt bullied by the
The other day I talked about investing in the Elgg project through contributing to the development community. There is also another, even simpler way, that requires no outlay or really even much of an effort. It's this: If you're using Elgg, tell us. We're
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Can anyone recommend a Unicode-enabled (must support the Chinese character set) questionnaire/survey system? It can be free, open source, paid-for, installable or centrally hosted.
Business Week has an article from a couple of days ago about the masses of investment money being poured into social networking systems in the wake of Myspace's sale (and we all know what I think about that). A piece of Facebook costs a mean $25 million; Bebo
Shunning Dave's wise advice, I'm waiting for a brand new Dell laptop to be delivered. The machine I type this on has been a very useful workhorse for the past few years, and I'd recommend it to anyone after a laptop on a budget,
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Slate have an interesting hack that allows for 'textcasting' - basically a way to read text from a feed on an iPod.
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In April 2005, the New York State Attorney General alleged that Intermix Media, an Internet marketing firm, was the source for illegally installed spyware that quietly launched ads on millions of computers across the country. They had created a website that allowed users to change their mouse cursor to one
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Miles Berry is in today's Guardian talking about his use of Elgg at St Ives school as part of an interesting wider article on encouraging writing through computer use. The full article is here - thanks go to all involved for the mention.
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Don't worry, we won't implement this in Elgg.
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I must admit to being appalled at the recent news that 72 colleges have agreed to use Microsoft Windows Live (aka Hotmail) as their main student email service. The only differences are the domains associated with email messages (the service is using the school's domain) and the lack
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The principles of web 2.0 make more sense if you change the order: "Harnessing Collective Intelligence" is the root principle of Web 2.0, and the others make sense to the extent that you understand how they feed into (and draw from) this one. Or, to put