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I saw today that RSS might be starting to meme its way across our system. It takes time. This morning I got a call from a faculty member asking where she can get software to see RSS. I sent her googling in “Desktop RSS Aggregator” not recalling which of the 90 or so ones is “best”. In an hour, I got an email from a web developer at one of our colleges as one of their committees wants an “RSS feed on their committee page featuring 3 random MLX items related to instructional technology.” Good signs indeed. Next thing I know, someone will want to use a wiki. Wait a minute! That request came 2 days ago,

I’d say it is nothing new these days to highlight or discover a new use of weblogs… No wait a minute, it still is interesting to see what pops up on the blog-o-verse. I’ve been at it since April 2003 and have helped a few groups and individuals in our system get started including 3 our our college centers that support faculty with technology. A number of them sputter in an out and you realize that it takes an extreme form of OCD to continually blog. One of our colleges has done quite a bit with student weblogs, and was highlighted in Stephen Downe’s excellent EDUCAUSE Review article on “Educational Blogging” — unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any links to send you, but trust me, somewhere out in Mesa Arizona, students are blogging. They also are doing it with the blog feature inside an internally developed ePortfolio system first [...]