I really did try to stop myself from talking any more about bloggers at the Democratic National Convention, but then Dave Winer posted a link to this article by Jack Kapica at the Globe and Mail. He makes a great observation about the role of bloggers in a media environmnet that is owned and dominated [...]
Archive for July, 2004
Bloggers at DNC
2004/07/29Are blogs the future of the web?
2004/07/28A very nice post today over in Tuttle SVC commenting about weblogs representing the future of the web. I’ve never heard of anyone who used weblog software very long and decided they’d rather go back to keeping a homepage with FrontPage. Its true – I’ve found blogging quite effective in reducing Dreamweaver and FrontPage dependence. [...]
Democracy, meet the bloggers
2004/07/27Brian Lamb writes about the webloggers at the Democratic National Convention – A plague of webloggers, and he finishes with: One real change that weblogs do represent, however, is a means for ordinary people to speak back to media, and to demand accountability — outside acceptable channels such as filtered letters to the editor. The [...]
Web police no more than keystone cops
2004/07/26I would hope that someone who appoints himself and a few cronies as the web police, there would be an attempt to appear to offer some sort of sincere discussion of the web as an emerging media. Sadly, in Adam Penenberg’s Media Hack column of July 26 over at wired only manage to trash U.S. [...]
Putting on your blog face
2004/07/26The point here is that the information one gives about oneself is more selective, malleable, and subject to self-censorship in CMC than it is in FtF interactions because only verbal and linguistic cues – those that are most at our discretion and control – are our displays. (Joseph Walther)
In other words, on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. :^)
Renovation
2004/07/25OK – all the posts for my TypePad account have been exported, and it is time for me to import them to this site! After due consideration, I think I’ll keep this account for my personal blogging, but my educational technology blogging will be moved over to the new site at Just Another Ant (kept [...]
MT blog backup with the TypeMover plugin
2004/07/23Over at Learning Movable Type, Elise has posted a summary of methods for backing up your blog. One of the top suggestions (and a good reason to back up to MT 3) is the availability of the TypeMover plugin which backs up not only content, but also all comments, trackbacks, pings, weblog settings, templates, email [...]
Learning environments are more important than learning objects
2004/07/20Sebastian Fiedler is wondering “Do we have a content problem?” I think this is a valid question, considering the intensity many instructional technologists devote to learning objects. Indeed, their reverence borders on religious ecstasy when the discussion turns towards learning object repositories and SCORM compliance.
Moodle replacing WebCT at Dublin City University
2004/07/16I’ll follow up on Rick’s declaration that today is open source day (in honour of Alec Couros‘ completing comprehensive exams for his Ph.D.). Today is a good day to be talking about open source. I just read that there is going to be a cross-campus installation of Moodle at Dublin City University (thanks to Scott [...]
Weblog user interfaces
2004/07/16While working on the project this afternoon, I started looking at the user interfaces for various weblog tools. Sadly, I have come to the conclusion none of the user interfaces would have been what a reasonably intelligent user (meaning me, of course) would have designed. Typepad and Blogger would be about the best available. Both [...]
