Alan Levine: “Anyone RSS-ing or surfing the education weblog scenes (e.g. Weblogg-ed) know that educator weblogs are catching on as a quiet revolution. And it is happening here in our system, a quiet revolution thaking place in and under the radar.”
Monthly Archive for September, 2003
I just learned that Ryze Company Co-Founder Adrian Scott made a comment on my Ryze page regarding my post about Ryze some weeks ago. Now: How did he get to my post? Hmmm…
His page shows me I am connected to him by Phil Wolf.
I missed the Blogging Across the Curriculum site from Pattie Belle Hastings:
“Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs.”
“This project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms from 1996 to the present, we try to map conceptually the landscapes and narratives of Capital, Technology and Globalization as see in coprorate television ads.” [Z+Partners]
Tom Fürstner is annoyed that Frontier for OS X does not work well with AppleEvents and Cocoa applications. I don’t know if that is a Cocoa issue or an issue with an outdated implementation in Frontier.
Anyway: He was not really in love with the FTP implementation in Frontier, so he found a way to control the FTP client Transmit.
Unfortunatly this article seems to be only available in German (and unfortunatly it is not a followup to the numerous consipracy-theory rants).
»New to teaching online? Consider this resource via Ray: Distance Learning: Step by Step (.pdf)…covers many areas of consideration for the online environment (including assessment and issues in moving to online).« [via elearnspace blog: Distance Learning: Step by Step] [BildungsBlog]
Derrick Story describes applications to record movies with iSight: iRecordnow is a little application that allows direct video recording from an iSight webcam. BTV does this as well (and more).
If you’re running a weblog these tools might be interesting to you:
Blogchangebot
Blog Change Bot is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested is updated. It is available with the screen name blogchangebot on AOL IM.
BlogPlanet
With BlogPlanet, updating your blog while you’re on the go is as easy as writing an SMS. It runs on your mobile and lets you write new blog entries, send them to your blog, edit them afterwards and delete them. On top of that, you can take pictures with the mobile’s built-in camera and include them in your posts.
ZonkBoard
It’s a kind of graffiti wall or message board for your blog.
BlogMoxie
Custom weblog designs for few bucks.
Lumberjack
This service creats access logs for you formatted identically to those found of webservers for weblogs.
Instant Gratificataion
A service to send out alerts via AIM whenever someone reads a blog entry
The EU today has rejected a draft to enable patents on algorithms and business processes.
I just learned about the addedValues Plug-In for Manila. It is a successor for the metaData Plug-In (and obviously a complete rewrite).
Looks very interesting!
»Lucent Technologies’ Information Specialist, Michael Angeles, believes blogging has evolved beyond “cool” and is moving quickly into the corporate world. In this presentation, Angeles will discuss who blogs, how and why.
He will also discuss how Lucent is supporting bloggers and at the same time keeping close watch over the resulting growth of information on the Intranet. Lucent’s objective is to determine how the increased content that will result from blogging can evolve into a plan for making that information useful and usable for the enterprise.”«
Andreas Beutel is running is own weblog now. And also Marian Steinbach started to update his page in a webloggish style. Onward!
Unfortunatly they don’t seem to have RSS feeds of their blogs…
If anyone wondered why there wasn’t any update the last three weeks: I was taking a timeout in Greece. Regular updates ahead…