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Ivan (The Trouble With) Tribble has quite a following. If you have forgotten or never read it, Ivan is a psuedonym for someone who thinks blogging is a bad practice for professor wanna bes (See Bloggers Need Not Apply from the July 8, 2005 Chronicle of Higher Education– at least they had the savvy to [...]

If I were a student in Blog School, the parental note they send home from my blog teachers might bear the comment, “Alan writes a lot, but he does not blog well with others”.
What I hope to get at by the end of this ramble is how, to me, in my opinion, this is not [...]

It’s rare I feel like passing on something forwarded via e-mail, but this message form my colleague Jan in Melbourne is too good to pass up. Look carefully at the double meanings in these URLs (all real and well meaning):
Make sure you don’t make the same mistake when setting up your web page. It’s not [...]

I’ve always valued a new issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW — not only is it cleanly published, tastefully illustrated, it typically features a number of excellently written articles in my field. It’s got a comfortable feel in your hands, not to heavy like a scholarly jouurnal, and very readable, but not light and fluffy like a [...]

The CD is here! As the tale told previously goes, a rock band in Germany named The Sealevel somehow found my photo of my 1972 Ford Maverick parked next to a “Sea Level” sign in Death Valley and asked if it could be used on the cover of their CD.
I just popped by my PO [...]

Hmmmm, something is different around here…. what is it? Oh yes, more than a year since I jumped ship to WordPress as my blog tool, I got around to customizing the look. Until now, I pretty much had gone with the stock default Kubrick template (which is more than okay) with my own banner image. [...]

I’m liking adding some audio recordings of our Ocotillo Online Learning Group monthly meetings to the notes. It should add value for people who cannot drive to a meeting. I’ve just posted the notes from our November 4 meeting about Testing Centers for Online Students.
But we sure are not talking about high end ITConversations like [...]

I’ve been bothered by the issue of inccorect displayed time stamps for Feed2JS, so I diverted from a few tasks at hand to take a new approach. The MagpieRSS library has a nice function that returns the date/time stamp of any item, in its myriad formats and tag names, as one of those values of [...]

Thanks to some keen observers who have recently noted a long standing problem with Feed2JS– for the display of the date and item was posted, we had been using some Magpie and PHP functions to convert the date/time stamp of an item to a milliseconds value and then using the php date() function for the [...]

Readers and my most sarcastic fans know my reluctance to blandly use the “Web 2.0″ word, but bear with me– the decimals don’t matter, what I struggle with is the ratio issue.
Daily I interact, participate, create, dwell, explore in this place of “folksonomic social networked connective reading/writingWeb 2.0-ish world” — yet I work in [...]