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Friday, December 17, 2004 |
BlogMeister. Another new tool. David Warlick writes,
"BlogMeister is a blogging tool that will allow
educators to establish accounts and start publishing their
own blog articles immediately. In addition, registered
teachers can establish blog accounts for their students,
making them participants in the great global conversation.
What makes BlogMeister unique is that student publications
must be reviewed by the teacher before they can be made
public." By David Warlick, December 16, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Media RSS Module - RSS 2.0 Module. This is a proposed extension to RSS 2.0 that
would allow media to be attached. It's very similar to RSS
enclosures, which are used to support podcasting, but it
allows for a more detailed description of the media
available. By Unknown, Yahoo, December 17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:10:42 PM Google It!.
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2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS. Jenny Levine hints at things to come for RSS...
"It's killing me that I can't say more," she
writes, "but I know of two major library vendors that
will make big announcements about RSS in 2005. It's going
to be a fun year!" Of course, the real question to ask
is, what comes after RSS? By Jenny Levine, The Shifted
Librarian, ecember 17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Where the Wiki Things Are. We've just put online our Fall 2004 issue
of our office's publication, the mcli Forum, and am finally glad I can
share with you the featured technology interview I did with Brian Lamb,
perhaps not so cleverly titled as "Where the Wiki Things Are".
How do you help people make the "Aha" step from
that first look of puzzlement when you describe a web site that anyone
can edit or destroy?
I think when they begin to understand that the users are in control;
that though they may sacrifice some functions such as security and
organization, they gain a great deal of speed and autonomy. It really
requires doing to become a believer.
I do have one gimmick, where I invite people in the audience to
erase or deface all of my materials. Then I restore my stuff with a few
clicks of the mouse. That really is the key to the notion of "Soft
Security" (which underlies this approach). It needs to be easier to fix
damage than it is to inflict it.
 The fun thing about this interview was we conducted it all via iChat, as alluded to a few months back.
A bonus for the web version that the print one lacks are a few more wiki sidebar resources (such as Brian's rockin' NMC show, Wired for WikiPhonics). We also have in the online article a full transcript of the iChat session [56k PDF].
The transcript was rather easy to accomplish- the session was saved
from iChat as a iChat file, and simply by printing to PDF, it comes out
nicely formatted (though it lacks the iChat icons.... I am the Dog and
Brian is the Skeleton ;-)
Again, the format of doing an interview by chat was easy to pull off
an effective, especially if interviewer and interviewee have the
questions arranged a head of time. There of course is some lag as both
are trying to be more clear (while typing) then just sloppy chit chat.
I would definitely use the approach again.... anyone want to be
interviewed for my Spring 2005 article?? [cogdogblog]
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