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Since I am pondering doing the MovableType to WordPress conversion, I’ve done a bit of reflecting on the last two years of blogging. Nothing profound has emerged, but I did start to think about the part of a blog post I spend the most time on (obviously it is not spell checking) — coming up with a good title. A good post title, grabs attention, sets the mode, and I often tried (in vain) to hit the punny spot. It’s worth being original, and just not having a dry, ‘just the facts ma’am’ sort of title. So I thought, why not peruse all of them via a MT template that displays all blog entries listed my title in alpha order? The template was a snap, the meat of it being: <ol class="posted"> <MTEntries sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend"> <li> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"> <$MTEntryTitle$></a>   (<$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y %I:%M %p$>) </li> </MTEntries> </ol> So here [...]

Okay, this dog is going to anger management. After our recent barking on Sipping MERLOT’s RSS Feeds: Is this Boone’s Farm or Dom Perignon?, we enjoyed some good discussion with some MERLOT insiders. The bottom line is that MERLOT still has a fabulous wealth of intstructional resources, and should be on the Bookmark list of every faculty and on the Frequently referred list of all technology folks that work with teachers. All of us should be contributing the MERLOT. It is the “Big Daddy” of “learning object repositories” and a prime example of how it can grow once the number of items inside reaches a useful tipping point. (1) MERLOT finally has a good number of useful RSS feeds that will soon be integrated into the main site. (2) They are considering creating a developer’s weblog that will better communicate what is brewing in the back of the wine lab. [...]