Posts from ‘November, 2003’

Last Friday I did a demo of Apple’s iChat/iSight for two-way desktop video conferencing. This was for a group of faculty and staff who attended our Ocotillo Online Learning Group (OLG) meeting, an open monthly event held at different colleges within the Maricopa system.
Like any technology demo, it had its highs and not so [...]

Another twist by the blog comment-spamming “community”. In a twice submitted comment to 2 unrelated posts on my MovableType blogs, “Peter” blog-spams:
Great comments guys. Peter <a href=”http://www.fda.gov/”>FDA</a>
As if Peter was trying to get me to toss the US Food and Drug Administration into my MT-Blacklist?? Or Peter is just getting his cockroach fingers warmed [...]

It’s been many weeks, maybe months, since I updated the CDB sidebar “Google of the Week (GotW), so today was as good a day as any. Also, I added GotW as a category archive with requisite RSS feed.
The GotW appears in the CDB sidebar, using MovableType’s built in API to Google, in essence, a syndicated [...]

It was bound to happen, once the interest in electronic portfolios has bubbled widely, the big Course Management Monoliths would bring them in under their hoods.
I am not at EDCUASE (hardly seems to be any blogging from there? trying a feedster search now- hey who put all those banner ads in there?), and this is [...]

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, English professor at University of Maryland, blogs about comment blogging a different mode of effective participation in the blog world simply by using the comment space of other weblog. Kirschenbaum cites how François Lachance effectively is part of the world of blogging without his having his own blog.
Presumably François has [...]

Later today I am doing a risky demo at our Ocotillo Online learning Group Meeting. Most technology is a risky in demo mode– here I am showing off the two-way desktop video capability of Apple’s iSight/iChatAV.
I’ve got a good number of people, both in the Phoenix area and scattered across the US, Canada, even New [...]

Some interesting ideas at the IA Think blog on PowerPoint and Idea Development including the often linked (and still a riot) PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg address.
But this post is not just another lambast at the results sometimes called “no power and no point”– the author has a valid wonder about the value of thinking [...]

One of my main reasons for using MovableType (MT) for blogging is that most of the blogs I read that seemed well designed, structurally and graphically, had MT under the hood. And the pages produced are clean HTML, even XHTML validat-able, and the templates use CSS sensibly too (as opposed to osme other blogs that [...]

This one should grow.. RSS in Government:
In this site, we’ll monitor creative uses of RSS to provide information to the public above government information and services….
There seems to be a connection or at least a lot of content from the Utah State Library site that has a great RSS tutorial but they seem to be [...]

Maybe a bit ambitous to call this a complete revision, but today I ran the second iteration of our weblogging workshop, or BlogShop 2.0 for a group of 20 faculty and staff at Phoenix College.
Pretty much the sections for using MovableType are the same, but I spent some more time trying to illustrate with more [...]