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Testing Aaron's RSS to Email Aggregator (November 26, 2003 06:25 PM)
Ignore this! I am testing Aaron's RSS to Email Aggregator, which should be able to send me RSS via email from selected blogs (in case this one). More details later if the experiment works, but I have to post a new message to see if I get the email update.... «more»
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FIPP Site Redux: Goodbye HTML Tables Hello XHTML/CSS (November 26, 2003 09:40 AM)
It's taken actually several weeks (off and on) to get a new web design up for our Faculty in Progress Program (FIPP). The old site was not horrible, but as this faculty recruitment program is in transition from an internal internship to one open nationally, and it was to be... «more»
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Conversor RSS para JS (November 22, 2003 04:10 PM)
Nossa ferramenta de RSS está jogando agora em Brasil Conversor RSS para JS [demo]. I cannot really write Portuguese without the help of the fish, but this is saying that our RSS tool is playing now in Brazil. More scanning of the referring site sin our web server log showed... «more»
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PHP the Drug Menace (November 21, 2003 10:22 PM)
Wow, it's been a while since I clicked over to BBspot. This story is a bit dated (June 14), but is important if you are concerned about today's youth. BBspot - Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP Topeka, KS - High school sophomore Brett Tyson was suspended today after... «more»
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Business BlogShop (or how I slept through that day in profiteering class) (November 21, 2003 09:32 PM)
I musta been sleepin' that day they covered bizness models. Here them smart folks in the Windy city offer Business Blog / Weblog Workshop by BloggingWorks One day workshop on how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve efficiency and communication. a smokin deal at $395 per... «more»
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You Know Where You Are.. but can your web visitors tell? (November 21, 2003 06:24 AM)
I am guilty of this as much as the next person-- in working on a web design project, or any project for that matter, you can get so close to the details and the content that you easily miss minor but important details. Huh?... «more»
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IndyJunior... Where in the World Was I? (November 20, 2003 03:12 PM)
IndyJunior Flash Mapping Module is a nifty Flash application from Bryan Boyer... By editing your own XML file, IndyJunior generates a dynamic map of places you have been or are planning to go to, and IJ features a configuration tool to customize the map appearance and features. Nodes can be... «more»
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Cutting Off Goofballs (Maybe SpamRoaches)- Expiring MT Comments (November 18, 2003 12:40 PM)
I'd rather be blogging about something else, but after a raft of stupid "Neat Blog", "I agree", "Cool Blog I'll be back" comments, often from the same IP with faked emails, appearing on very old posts (ones that pop up on Google), I have taken another level of blog protection.... «more»
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Learning About Learning Objects (LALO) (November 17, 2003 04:37 PM)
Here is another new learning objects "hub" site (a PHP-Nuke supported site) called Learning About Learning Objects . I clicked and clicked and clicked trying to find the elusive "About" statement, failing, and found this on a site that seemed to be the prototype: The process of implementing SDCCD Online... «more»
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BlogShop del Norte (UBC) (November 17, 2003 02:27 PM)
Recently Brian Lamb and Jim Sibley conducted a Canadian Blogshop at the University of British Columbia, and plentifully acknowledged the materials in our BlogShop from down here in the far south Canadian hinterland province of Arizona ;-) Actually the UBC version takes it a notch further by posting the workshop... «more»
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3 LO Searches for 1 Query: Merlot's Federated Search (November 17, 2003 02:15 PM)
Zoom-zoom. More power for those looking for learning objects or instructional resources. MERLOT's Federated Search allows you to enter keywords (say "cell mitosis") and with one click conduct a search of MERLOT, Australia's )EdNA Online, and the Science Math resources of SMETE. Actually the EdNA folks had demo-ed this first... «more»
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Spam Roaches Could Not Find it Here (November 17, 2003 06:59 AM)
More detective work with analysis of web server logs with AWstats shows that poor spammers are unable to find their links on my web site. Alas! What is a roach to do! Does that mean that they will target me next? No luck, as they are blocked at the door... «more»
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Powerful Web Bulletin Board: phpBB (oh and it is free!) (November 16, 2003 10:08 PM)
I was recently looking for a package to implement a discussion board for a group project, and luckily came across phpBB :: Creating Communities. phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful... «more»
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Mark Lays out the sobering truth on blog-spam (November 15, 2003 04:34 PM)
The euphoria of stomping out blog spam cockroaches may be short-lived. Mark Pilgrim lays out the depressing, sobering truth on weblog spam [dive into mark]. Mark sez the good times will last last than a month... And then the spammers will strike back. They'll complain to your ISP that you're... «more»
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Look What the Referer Dragged In (November 14, 2003 07:11 AM)
Now that I have an analysis tool for my server, I am digging up all kinds of neat findings. From the referer logs (links from outside to specific web pages on my site), came one from MGMT110 Class Projects / blogs At Earlham College, in Indiana. This site is in... «more»
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RSS Feeding- keep those hits coming (November 13, 2003 10:31 PM)
I was thinking about David Carter-Tod's recent note on how his RSS parsing script service was getting heavy hits, you success and all of its burdens. I began getting curious on how often our RSS2JS script was being used (and I know that the page needs some re-design and chunking),... «more»
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"10 Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Google" (November 13, 2003 04:46 PM)
Boston University prof Michael Feldman offers up 10 Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Google. After #1 (some numbers, stats) follow 9 types of things Google can do besides just keyword web searches (<tiphat>tip of the blog hat to Scripting News</tiphat>). Nothing was tremendous news to this dog, but... «more»
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Melbourne Digital Arts Conference: Papers, and Weblog Site (November 13, 2003 11:02 AM)
I found it interesting that the May 2003 Melbourne Digital Arts and Culture Conference (melbourneDAC) created a web site for the conference using MovableType (some links seem to go to non MT pages)- an interesting use of weblogs beyond "cat diaries". But beyond that, as was noted at Kairosnews was... «more»
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Attention Blog Spam Roaches: Read the Manifesto! (November 12, 2003 08:07 PM)
Adam Kalsey provides the rallying cry to in his Comment Spam Manifesto. Also check out Adam's story of nailing a blog spam roach where it hurts. What you failed to understand is that bloggers are smarter, better connected, and more technologically savvy than the average email user. We control... «more»
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More Victories for War on Spam Cockroaches (November 12, 2003 11:33 AM)
D'Arcy recently exalted MT Spamkiller with proofs from his blog how the spam cockroaches were being blocked. I had not peeked at my MovableType activity log in a while, and was overwhelmed at the number of comment spams that were stopped by Jay Allen's MTBlacklist plug-in. I shudder at the... «more»
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iSight Deno: 6 Video Chats or Around the Continent in 30 Minutes (November 12, 2003 09:44 AM)
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... «more»
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BlogSpamming: Tossing Good URLs into the Spam Mix (November 11, 2003 06:27 AM)
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... «more»
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GotW: Abbey's Writing Quotes (November 9, 2003 10:46 AM)
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... «more»
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WebCT Opens Doors to OPSI e-portfolio (November 9, 2003 10:01 AM)
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... «more»
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Blogging in the Margins- Comment Blogging (November 8, 2003 11:32 AM)
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... «more»
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Seat of the Pants iSight Demo (November 7, 2003 10:09 AM)
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... «more»
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A Thousand PowerPoint(less)s of Light? (November 7, 2003 06:34 AM)
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... «more»
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Print Styles for MovableType Blogs (November 6, 2003 08:55 AM)
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... «more»
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RSS in Governments (November 6, 2003 08:35 AM)
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... «more»
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BlogShop 2.0 (November 5, 2003 05:48 PM)
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... «more»
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Cannot Figure out the Learning Content eXchange (November 4, 2003 01:47 PM)
On the URL name alone, it seems like the Learning Content eXchange (LCX) is of interest- it sounds like it has to do with reusable learning content. And the parallels in name/acronym alone to our own Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) are eerie. But I cannot figure out anything tangible from... «more»
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Go, Blog. Go! (November 4, 2003 12:25 PM)
Out of coincidence, I was recently reminded of one my most important, early literary influences. No, not Dickens, not Dostoevsky, not Thoreau... it was P.D. Eastman's timeless classic, Go, Dog. Go! (GDG). In fact, I still have a copy of GDG in my office. Not the one I had... «more»
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3 Blog Spam Roaches Smashed (November 4, 2003 06:33 AM)
Just when you thought it was safe to blog.... 3 pairs of blog spam comments came in over night, and STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, they are gone thanks to Jay Allen's MT Blacklist plugin. But the pattern is disturbing. Each of these came as faked comments to the same 2 blog... «more»
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RSS Feeds for MovableType Trackback and Comments (November 3, 2003 08:36 AM)
Wow, the sound of my own hand slapping my forehead with a loud, "duh!". The TweezerMan (not sure if I want to know the story behind that name) has provided easy to copy templates for creating RSS Feeds for Trackbacks and RSS Feeds for Comments from MovableTyple weblogs, all using... «more»
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