Via Weblogs in Higher Ed comes this terrific tutorial on using Bloglines: betterdays » Blog Archive » Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday) This includes many screenshots, and covers how to set up a Bloglines account, how to subscribe to feeds by pasting in the RSS/Atom feed, by pasting [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Can Dilithium Crystals be far behind?
2005/04/27Slashdot is reporting on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA. Update – Wired has picked up the story
CogDogBlog has a new WordPress doghouse
2005/04/27One of my favourite blogs, CogDogBlog, has moved over to WordPress. In describing the migration, Alan Levine said: Shazam! That was too friggin easy. The power, the interface, and the features I am just scraping at are exciting, almost like discovering blogging anew. I should have done this long ago! Yep – that sums up [...]
MLB == Major League Blogging?
2005/04/24MLBlogs : Official Affiliate : Unofficial Opinions Now you can follow along the boys of summer by reading about them in the blogs of summer. I haven’t seen it linked from the main Major League Ball page, but Major League Ball has set up a blogging site for baseball fans, supported by SixApart. From what [...]
Freire, the Matrix, and Scalability
2005/04/22There are a few writers in the ed-tech world that I can count on for writing something that just gets my brain in a resonating hum, and David Wiley has done it again::iterating toward openness – Freire, the Matrix, and Scalability To be honest, I suppose the resonance I found in this post is second [...]
Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia
2005/04/22Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia::I’ve seen links to this in a few places, and I just wanted to do my part to increasing the page rank for when someone Googles for “Adobe Macromedia acquisition“. Call it Google-bombing if you will – I [...]
CyberBullying Resources
2005/04/19When I was a youth, we would hang out at the mall. Today’s youth are spending their time in a social venue that many parents and teachers may be unaware of, so I’m really glad to see that Alec Couros and Dan Schellenberg have put together a terrific compendium of CyberBullying Resources (worth bookmarking). Alec [...]
Drupal 4.6 released
2005/04/15drupal.org | Community plumbing After six months of development, the Drupal team is proud to announce the Drupal 4.6.0 release! Just in time for the ID-COP site development – the timing couldn’t be better.
Finding correct boredom in education
2005/04/15I’m sitting in a lecture about inclusion in schools (more on that later, I hope) but thanks to the wonder of wireless I’ve just been reading Will’s post on Boring Content, Boring Schools. I’m glad he focuses on a specific kind of boredom that is a problem. The bigger sense here, for me at least, [...]
Podcast #9 (another Rob and Rick show)
2005/04/12I was in Saskatoon today, and had a chance to drop in on Rick Schwier to talk over a few projects and ideas. While we were at it, I turned on my iRiver to record another Rob and Rick podcast. This was recorded straight into the built-in mic on the iRiver with no post production, [...]
