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March 2007

March 13, 2007

Emerge

March 13, 2007

I want this to be all meaningful, but quick and dirty will have to do. I am trying to get a handle on how the Emerge site works, and one feature of the Elgg platform is taking in feeds from other blogs. So, I am interested to see if this gets fed across. Technorati Tags: ...

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March 14, 2007

This is just another quick and dirty test to see if a second feed will be picked up and aggregated into my Emerge blog. Sorry for these boring posts.Technorati Tags: ...

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The answer is yes

March 14, 2007

So finally I figure out the blog feeds. Thanks to Ben for explaing it to me in words of one ...

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March 23, 2007

Interscription

March 23, 2007

Bruce (here) has every reason to mistrust the demos when most nations appear to be nations of fools. As a scion of the country that elected both George Bushes and a long-time resident of first Thatcher's and now Blair's Britain, I can only come to the (tentative) conclusion that the fact that only a minority of those eligible ...

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March 28, 2007

It will come back and haunt you: Behaviour on line

March 28, 2007

Some people may have noticed that Flickr has introduced more stringent controls on access to "mature" content. As well as requiring all uploads to be self-certified, users have now to explicitly state their level of "comfort" with viewing such content. I refer to my earlier posts (Identity matters and On the Internet nobody knows you are a dog) ...

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Web 2.0 and accessibility

March 28, 2007

I met Alistair McNaught on the train to Birmingham this morning. Alistair was off to the NIACE E-Guides National Event 2007 and I to the JISC Distributed eLearning Programme wind-up meeting. Aliatair works for TechDis, one of the really useful organisations in the educational technology world. I expressed anxiety about adopting commercial, private-sector tools for educational purposes. On ...

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