Frontier and Radio tip:  Here are some links to resources for integrating Frontier/Manila and Radio with 3rd party databases (Frontier nad Radio include an integrated database).  So, if you have an existing database that you want to make avaible via a Manila site, this should make it possible.

1) Filemaker Pro (Greg)  Also, a demonstration service using Frontier and Filemaker.  Ranchero's list of resources.

2) ODBC compliant databases (Steve Tallent) such at Oracle, Sybase, MS SQLServer, Access, mySql, or anything with an ODBC driver for your platform.  It works on Mac OS 8/9, OSX, and Windows. 

3) PostgreSQL (Andre). [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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iCal2blog. - iCal2blog is an AppleScript that can publish your iCal calendar(s) to yourMovable Type weblog (or any weblog that supports the metaWeblog API). [d/l] [AppleScript Info]
9:32:09 PM  #  comment []

Jake is doing a screenshot a day for the new Frontier 9.  Here's the first:  The Admin home page and Frontier Status Center.  Here is the second: Site Administration (Part 1).  He is going to go through all the new screens on Frontier 9.  We will incorporate these into an easy to view document shortly. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
9:30:49 PM  #  comment []

Blog literacy: writing, radio, and video..

I've been touching on barriers to blogging. One of them is functional literacy.

What is "Good blogging?"

My short list :

• Persistence and frequency
• Stringing ideas together using words
• Writing in a way that engages
• Context, lots of context
• Themes
• Voice
• Authority / Sincerity

It's incomplete. What's on your list?

What knowledge, skills and abilities does a good blogger need?

• Understanding the medium
• Mastery of blogging tools
• Ability to write well
• Self assignment: able to pick topics that fit the medium and the blogger
• Writing for the web
• Writing persuasively
• Tech-writing skills, if writing to inform
• Mechanical skill: able to conform writing to conventions accepted by your audience. Strunk and White for some readership, eminem for others, and Dogma 2000 for others.
• Willingness to participate
• Laws and etiquette: libel, ownership, citation, etc.

What is richer media?

I'm referring to the content being created. In ascending richness:

1. Words
2. Pictures
3. Sound
4. Video
5. Software Objects

You may debate where number 5 belongs, but I expect software components for user's to experience to stream via blogs in the next few years. It may be as simple as a screensaver of the day, as dry as the flow of résumés across a recruiter's desk, or a new car or weapon for your Grand Theft Auto game.  

What is "good blogging" in richer media?

That's the billion dollar question.

My short list :

• Persistence and frequency
• Stringing ideas together using words and other media
• Communicating in a way that engages
• Context, lots of context
• Themes
• Voice
• Authority / Sincerity 

I wake up to NPR's Morning Edition radio show on KQED. I tune in to KGO News Radio when driving. It's clear that producing a 60 second news report requires skill, technique, and a little talent.

 

 

[a klog apart]
8:19:45 PM  #  comment []

Teachers as Bricoleurs Chad Dickerson, in his CTO Connection article, tells us that an organization, if it is good, fosters the freedom and creativity to "improvise on-the-spot solutions" As he asserts, with technology, stuff fails and we have to think on our feet. I assert that that in the educational setting, we do not have the resources and freedoms to implement creative solutions!

to be continued.
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Frontier 9 - Port Forwarding for OSX Wow! Automatic Port Forwarding on Mac OSX. Today I will give it a go, if I have time today. Seems as though that Userland listened to us OSX users, who are just getting used to the Unix plumbing underneath OSX.
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