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As a follow-up to my post on small numbers of people doing tagging, as of today, for our NMC Regional Conference held last week in San Antonio, we have tagged in flickr 393 photos from 11 individuals, more than we had at our summer conference in Cleveland where the attendence was 3 times as large as San Antonio. See all tagged photos. And we were able to use the slide show as the screen display prior to our closing keynote session, which was well enjoyed by the folks coming into the auditorium. I am not ready to draw any statistical conclusions, but will toss some anecdotal ones. Okay, maybe nmc2006reg was not the greatest tag, and some folks got it switched around, but the only promotion for this was the mention in our program. Secondly, via this, I picked up 3 new flickr contacts, folks I did not know before. [...]

I feel moderately good about our experiment of “tagging” the NMC Summer Conference this year. We put it in the printed program that we were asking participants to tag blog posts, flickr photos, and del.icio.us bookmarks with an “official” tag of nmc2006. I used a local copy of Feed2JS and flickr’s Javascript badge to bring them together into one page at http://www.nmc.org/events/2006summerconf/tag.php. I was going to SuprGlu ‘em too, but had trouble getting to their site the night before the conference. So how did it go? Well, of course, I had a fair bit in there since it was my idea and I wanted it seeded with “stuff.” And I appreciate the numbers of people who did jump in. The aggregation is quite nice. In summary: Tagging with Technorati is the most complex of them all. Unless you have added a plugin to your blog software, getting the content o [...]

I got an email recently from someone trying to suggest we were inserting adds into a feed displayed with Feed2JS falsely suggested on pappamashkin blog. Nothing could be further from the truth. Heck we do not even insert a credit back link in the free service we provide. But curious, I dug deeper. The culprit is Feedster, which is the source of the feed. It looks like pappamashkin is trying to create a feed based on content from his/her site that includes the keyword “PHP”. The Feedster web view of the feed displays this below two links for “Sponsored Links”, yet when you look in the RSS version of this same feed, you find an extra top level inserted item for some ad “Live AMD Online Event 3 — Dual-Core Solutions (ADV)”, the curious item “pappamashkin” may have thought we were shoving in there. It’s not us, old pappamashkin, it [...]

I’ve been guilty of this several times over, but its easy to fall into the Field of Dreams Syndrome (FoDS) by focusing on the construction of the place (“build a virtual community and they will come”). I’ve rambled before about this, that if you look at real communities of people, it is just more than the coors of the walls they hang out at; and I remain firmly convinced that we under-focus on the social aspects of the “community” and over-focus on the place. So last Thursday I was in a meeting, and missed the big webcast launch of the Apple Digital Campus Exchange. Look at all the things the “place” required- registering in advance, downloading a special application (cast stream), logging in at a set time. I arrived a little over an hour late and must have missed the show: As you can see, I actually left it open [...]

Feedster is offering a new search tool to help you find content that comes from weblogs, a handy way to scope your web searches. For the uninitiated, Feedster provides a google-like interface for searching things found in RSS feeds. It offers tools to store your own set of feeds (like another flavor of Bloglines as a web based RSS reader), services to get updates by email, and likely quite a bit more (it has been a while since I rummaged around Feedster). Some quick and not so dirty examples of Feedster Blog search results (you gotta love being able to save these as URLs): Learning Object Podcast Social Computing Probably a little used gem of note that Feedster search results are themselves available as an RSS feed, e.g.: Learning Objects Feedster Search RSS a tip of the bloghat to the RSS feed from ResearchBuzz for the link.

Martin was a bit peeved at not getting an RSS Feed for the “NMC Continuing Coverage” blog aggregator provided by Stephen Downes (and he gets the concept). Then Martin still was not satisfied when we provided him a URL for an RSS feed for Stephan’s tool, found with a few minutes of rummaging around EDU_RSS. Martin also missed the concept that Stephan’s tool was out of our realm of control (though he created it on request)– that we are “loosely” joined to it. Martin wants things wide open a.k.a. DeCentralists (he wants the weblogs open to the world to edit, a behavior of wikis but rather rare in blogs) but he seems to want all information for our session provided in a comprehensive single site, tailored just for him, an almost rather ironic Centralist concept. I am not writing to ridicule Martin but to help provide an example what the [...]

Just getting bounced around RSS-space is Phil Long’s Syllabus Feb 2004 column on TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places . Some are saying tat it explains Trackback well, but to be honest, you cannot really understand it until you use it. We are glad that Phil is giving TrackBack some limelight (waiting for those to chime in its open-ness to spam and ill-use). However, his idea on using Tb as a content aggregator has me scratching my head, (emphasis added): The approach taken was to suggest that someone might start a dedicated TrackBack blog on a particular topic. This special blog would not be used by the owner of the blog to wax poetic on topics of his or her choice, but become a repository dedicated to a single topic. For example, imagine a site, which collects Weblog posts about the Civil War. Anyone interested in reading about the Civil [...]

I’ve just taken a brief look at PubSub following some mentions at the RSS Winterfest. This service takes a different angle on aggregating feeds, almost “Downse-ian” like EduRSS in that you can track among thousands (they say) of RSS feeds for particular keyword searches. And the results are presented to you via RSS! PubSub lets you filter over one million weblogs and information streams to find the content you’re looking for, in real time. It’s like searching the future. “Searching the future” is a stretch (maybe it is “RSS is here just not evenly distributed”??) but it does some to be looking at RSS sideways- rather than tracking down the sites for the sources of RSS feeds, you end of setting up custom feeds for keyword searches (curious to know if it picks up things not found in Feedster). For example, I created an account to track the matches on [...]

Ari Paparo assembled a longer than you might expected list of web search tools for specifically searching weblogs and/or RSS feeds. My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can’t find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What’s the point of all this easy-to-use publishing technology if you don’t publish stuff, right? You’ve got everything from Bligz, Blogdigger, Bloghop, Fastbuzz, Pepys, yadda, yadda, down to Technorati and more. As if we needed it, but one more sign of the spread of the blog meme. I have generally found Feedster one of the more useful, but have yet to poke around many of the others listed here… And you gotta like a guy who blogs “I am King of the World” (for being top of a google search on a typo??)

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 just a PR post, but coming soon, to a CMS near you… WebCT Demos New Open Source Portfolio PowerLink at EDUCAUSE 2003: WebCT, maker of the world’s most flexible and widely used higher education e-learning solutions, this week will demonstrate a new PowerLink for WebCT Vista(TM) that enables the transfer of student files from WebCT Vista-powered courses to open source electronic portfolios. These files will then become part of a permanent personal record that students can selectively share with peers, professors and employers over their lifetime. This new PowerLink for WebCT Vista is being [...]