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Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
Wow that looks cool. We should be able to use this finding to get Movable Type with enhanced SocialDynamX working.
The Culprit.
Warning: serious programmer nerdism ahead.
I've been talking with Dave about how to publish to a Movable Type weblog from Radio's outliner.
Dave wrote up a nifty tool that lets you publish one post at a time. Which was great. But I wanted page-oriented editing, where you can edit several posts from a single outline.
We figured out that there are two ways to do it. The first way is to map each of the root level items in the outline to a weblog post. The second way is to map an entire day's worth of entries to a weblog post. The second approach is nice and simple when it comes to saving to the server, but can get complicated when you want to generate an RSS feed or perform other item-oriented actions. The first way lets you program a little more efficiently, because you do caching and only post back entries that have changed. And you can even make your daily entries editable on several computers by posting the day's outline to your Radio weblog.
The tricky part: what if you don't want titles? In the current implementation, Movable Type's metaWeblog.newPost will concoct titles for you if you leave them blank. The GUI, on the other hand, is happy to let you leave the title blank. Why not allow empty titles in the XML-RPC interface as well?
Anyway, I tracked down the relevant code. The culprit is line 131 of XMLRPCServer.pm.
$entry->title($item->{title} || first_n_words($item->{description}, 5));
Grumble.
I suppose I could edit this, but then I'd be running a hacked version, which I'd rather avoid.
A potential alternative is to code Radio to send a special title like "RADIONOTITLE", and program my MT templates---all of them---to ignore titles equal to that magic string. Ponderous.
[Andrew Grumet's Weblog]
9:12:05 AM 
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Norm Formation in Social Influence Blogsphere Weblogs play a key role in opinion formation or norm formation in the new social influence network that is the Internet. Rob found this article that continues an old notion in weblogs that we have a responsibility to think and rethink what we are writing and sharing with others.
A Fool With Tools Is Still A Fool - Thoughts On Technology.
Ran across a great essay yesterday, Living Virtuously in the Information Age, by Dr. Quentin Schultze, and quite frankly it has really made me think about the impact of technology on both societal wisdom and personal wisdom. With the proliferation of information and information gathering tools, I find myself continually tempted to avoid the intellectual discipline of "thinking through" ideas - an exercise very important to the development of wisdom - and simply doing an online search to find out what everyone else is thinking - and then selecting my thoughts from the buffet of ideas served up byGoogle or Feedster.
WISDOM: The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
Using online searches to help gain wisdom can certainly be a good thing - but relying solely on information aggregation - and bypassing the intellectual exercise of "thinking through" ideas certainly is not "wise". In his essay Dr. Schultze calls out the fact that "Being wise is far more than being informed. We cannot become wise merely by being well-connected to information". Can we lose the ability to discern (a key component of wisdom) by relying too much on technology? I submit we can - do - and will continue to - unless we are cognizant of the fact that we can lose that ability to discern and continually challenge ourselves to "think things through".
[Rob Robinson's Idea Engagement Area]
Just because someone says it doesn't make it true however if enough people say it then it is believed as true weather the facts are there or not. This post by EdCon shoes the norm formation in action. What is the acceptable behavior of amateur journalist in weblogs? Listening to this panel made me realize that they form a community of interest, they read each other during their daily browse, they share a common understanding of the acceptable and unacceptable behavior in their field of interest. Its interesting to see the boundaries of professional journalist versus amateur journalist struggle to resolve the conflicting attitudes about what is and what is not acceptable behavior in that community of interest. The norms will converge because there is a natural tendency to reduce conflict.
D'oh!
Amateur journalist Glenn Reynolds and professional journalist Andrew Sullivan learn a valuable lesson about reliable sources.
Reynolds and Sullivan pimped a story by WorldNetDaily columnist and talk-radio guy Kevin McCullough that claimed Ed Asner was a fan of Stalin's.
Turns out that Asner's statements (about which who the hell cares anyway?) were grievously misquoted by McCullough, who also managed to misquote himself.
"It's hard for me to understand how McCullough could have made this mistake," says Reynolds.
Hmmm. Could it be because he wanted it to be true, 'cause that would, like, show how dumb all those peacenik liberals really really are? Might that impulse explain the credulity of others, too?
Indeed.
[EdCone.com]
9:08:34 AM
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Way to go JJ! that sounds like you will be having so much fun. congrats.
Theme change. Sorry I've been off the blog for a while. Lot's happening. I'll be able to say more in a couple of weeks. I'm having fun on my current project. I've been travelling quite a bit to LA. It's gonna be good...
My good friend JJ has left frog and is working for ascential software. We'll miss you man! [Marcus' Tablet PC Radio Weblog]
8:51:39 AM
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I'm certain that Tim will make this event a great happening. Tim passion for teaching really came through on the education panel at BloggerCon. I was a K-12 teacher for 6 years and Tim's message really resonated with my own experience. Teaching for me was the hardest and most rewarding work I have ever done.
I've had great trouble trying to explain blogging to others and Tim shared how he uses the term digital paper to get the point across. The key point is that literacy matters.
After BloggerCon: Ed Blogger San Francisco, 22-23 Nov 2003, non-conference..
Put it on your calendar: 
WHAT: Ed Blogger 2003
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 November 2003
WHERE: San Francisco. Places under discussion.
WHO: People interested in weblogs as a tool for education.
There is room for a real conference.
First, a track on blogging in the classroom. Best practices by grade level. By subject matter. For special needs. In curriculum development. Blogs as a factor in verbal performance, learning styles, collaboration and social skills. Thousands of teachers are using blogs; let's share the best of what they learn.
Second, blogging as it relates to school operations. Like a business, schools have internal and external communications that keep things running. Student security and privacy. Parent-teacher communication. Teacher-supervisor and teacher-teacher communication. School-district communication. Blogs in school libraries. Blogs in volunteer coordination and fundraising. Again, share new knowledge and practical experience.
Third, technical implementation. This is the track for the instructional technologist and IT folks. Workshops on setting up weblog servers. Tool and vendor comparisons. Enabling search and newsreaders. Getting bandwidth for cheap or free. Worst practices. etc.
Somewhere along the way I want to see blogging as fodder for academic research. Let the grad students develop a theory for the medium. Integrate blogging into existing theories of learning, behavior, and motivation. [a klog apart]
8:37:48 AM
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