As Rick noted, I am at the workshop on Building Distributed Communities of Practice for Enhanced Policy-Research Interface hosted by the International Centre for Governance and Development. It is actually just after the adjournmjent of the second day of proceedings right now, and my brain [...]
Red Herring Blog: Bill Gates’ blog strategy::Will the infamous Micro$oft approach to competing technologies of embrace, extend and exterminate be repeated?
OK – its not quite as rousing a rallying cry as Hoover’s “a chicken in every pot” but let me add my adulation to Brian Lamb’s cheers for Alan Levine’s RSS2JS script. I like the idea of being able to put an RSS feed in the content of any web page. That’s [...]
First of all, in response to Mena Trott’s query How are you using the tool?, here’s how movable type fits into my life:
I have two weblogs with two authors running on my site (at www.omegageek.net/blog and www.omegageek.net/rickscafe). Since typepad came along, I’ve tended to use my domain blog as more of a testbed [...]
Your thoughtful responses
Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.

