Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Another kid blog

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Not to be outdone by other bloggers and their six-year-old kids, I set up a blog for my son Jacob recently. We've posted some artwork, a bit of keyboarding practice, and two podcasts so far. He's done all the work with a little help from me on some HTML markup ...

Blogging/wiki workshop at TIES

Monday, December 5th, 2005

I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day workshop on Saturday at the TIES Conference. The session, Introducing the Read-Write Web: Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS, has an accompanying wiki that we used to track questions and resources that were mentioned during the workshop. Feel free to check it out for ...

Inviting conference session input

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

I've created two wiki pages to collect input from folks who might (or might not) be interested in attending my sessions at the upcoming TIES Technology Conference. I could be wrong, but I think it's pretty cool to be able to have this kind of input before a conference session. ...

NSBA: Blogging/wikis

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I had the pleasure of hosting a second roundtable discussion this morning. The room was full and we had some good discussion of many of the issues that come up whenver there's a discussion of blogs, wikis, and other interactive, Web-based tools. I pointed everyone to James Farmer's edublogs site where ...

Spam Karma 2.0 unleashed

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

There was a period of relative calm that lasted almost six months, but that ended a few weeks ago when the comment spammers descended on my blog. Almost overnight I was dealing with 30–50 spam comments per day. At least 95% of them were stopped by the common spam words ...

First look at Flock

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

I posted about Flock a little over a month ago and wondered if it would be the first Web 2.0 browser. I downloaded the first pre-alpha-developer release today after getting an email about it and so far it's looking pretty interesting. This is definitely not a release for the faint ...

Redefining mass media

Monday, October 10th, 2005

I was listening to a podcast at IT Conversations recently by Paula Le Dieu, Co-Director of a BBC project to digitize years of archives and make them available under a Creative Commons license. Her talk, Emerging Massive Media, was interesting in no small part because of the overwhelming scope of ...

Google adds blog search

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Google Blog Search is out in Beta mode. It appears that they are building an index of RSS feeds which may or may not be actual blogs. I don't see any tagging going on, but if I were Technorati I probably wouldn't be sleeping very well right now. Don't miss ...

STP #8: A chat with the gang

Friday, August 12th, 2005

It's been long in coming, but the newest installment of the Savvy Technologist Podcast has finally arrived. But it's not the usual STP. I've always enjoyed the Gillmor Gang podcast and I've wanted to do something like it in the educational technology category for a long time. Now that I've ...

Free blogging tools for teachers

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I do workshops about blogging pretty frequently and I always have the participants create their own blogs. I used to encourage people to use Blogger, but there are some limitations to Blogger that quickly become a pain in the rear. Among them are the difficulties with including photos and other ...

A week of Apple training

Monday, July 11th, 2005

If you're reading this you'll know that I have landed safely in San Jose, CA for a week of intense training at the Apple Distinguished Educator Summer Institute. I'm not quite sure what to expect actually, but I'm confident that it will be top-knotch. Ever since I was selected as ...

RSS feed now valid

Monday, July 4th, 2005

How do you know you're a geek? I'd say that if you get home from a long trip in Philadelphia, New York, and Winona, MN and you stay up until 1:30 a.m. trying to figure out why the RSS feed from your blog is invalid, you're a geek. I noticed ...