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Killing edublogging

By alex | Published: 4/14/2005
James Farmer suggests two ways in which educational blogging as a widespread activity may be effectively killed: 1. University-created blogging systems and 2. Courseware-integrated systems. I’m less concerned about the first. We started a school-level blogging server about two years ago now (what has evolved into Schoolof.info), using first Moveable Type and then WordPress. I […]
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Google Video

By alex | Published: 4/13/2005
More beta fun from Google (yes, I am becoming a Google fanboy): Google Video (Beta). If you produce a video, upload it, and they will index it and allow you to sell it. Cool. I have a project coming up. I had planned to leave it openly available, but now I wonder if maybe I […]
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BlogPulse Tools

By alex | Published: 4/3/2005
For those of you who have not recently visited Intelliseek’s BlogPulse project, they now have several new tools available. Of particular interest to me is their Conversation Tracker, which converts explicit links among blog entries into a threaded history. I’m working on a project to visualize conversations as well, but it does not rely on […]
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Plugging in

By alex | Published: 3/23/2005
Met with Kevin and Sarah (though it looks like her blog is officially dead — so much for eating our own dogfood) today on the Schoolof.info blogserver. Because I didn’t know where WordPress Multi User was last summer, I put together a system that autoinstalled WordPress blogs for students. (Shout out to the ETC for […]
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