Buried Bones (Archive) for November, 2005

Spammers Know My Wishes

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 8th, 2005 7:51 am

Wow, and here I’ve been thinking spammers are really dumb! They seem to know that I have a secret desire to be Canadian:

I just do not know about the “care-giving” part, am I up for that?

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Hooked on Glu

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 7th, 2005 9:46 pm

Taking the cue from Stephen Downes who took it from Jay Cross, I quickly checked out SuperGlu a new Web.0 tool that aggregates anything that you may have stored elswhere that provides an RSS feed…
SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe [...]

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Fewer Web Pages

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 5th, 2005 5:52 pm

This month marks the 12th year since I hoisted my first HTML file on a web server and flicked on the switch. Since then, my master directory of web content files has something like 50 or 60 thousand documents, a sprawling metropolis of stuff.
In talking recently about our web sites, I realized in the last [...]

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It Does Have a “2″ in the Name: Reader2 Does It Well

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 5th, 2005 5:17 pm

Without mentioning the Web X.0 cliché, Reader2 is a site definitely in the mix with elements of folksonomy, social networking, RSSing for people to build collections of books they have read or want to read.
It’s pretty quick and easy to add book titles- the add form allows to enter a title and use an Amazon [...]

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Hip Deep in Blog Publishing

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 3rd, 2005 4:58 pm

I’m scurrying madly trying to ramp up a promise to have a Word Press publishing platform ready to release an online version of our mcli Forum. We have been doing a print and web version of this since 2001, and a previous ancestor since 1993.
The print version twice a year costs more than a few [...]

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Late Breaking News LOM/RDF/IEEE/DC/ZZZZZ

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 2nd, 2005 7:14 am

Albert IP, from Random Walk in E-Learning reports today
At the most recent LOM (Learning Object Metadata) WG meeting in Orlando, it was decided that the work on the LOM RDF binding will be discontinued. The reason quoted is the formation of a new taskforce between IEEE LOM and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
And in a related [...]

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