RSS Autodiscovery for Learning Objects. Bingo! Brent fixed NetNewsWire to correctly work with RSS autodiscovery. View this page in a web browser then subscribe to it with NetNewsWire 1.0.2b8 or later (or any other RSS reader to support RSS autodiscovery). Now we've got a nice way of syndicating learning objects on web pages that use them in context. [David Davies' Weblog]
11:07:58 AM    
  
Edit this Page, in desktop text editors.

Three years ago today we had a conceptual breakthrough called Piking Behind Firewalls making it easy for people to use our outliner (then called Pike, now called Radio) to edit their weblog even if they're behind a firewall. The release was called Firewalls with Piking Sauce.

The other Web content management systems don't even have Edit This Page buttons yet. I'm amazed that people think Movable Type is so advanced. They have a long way to go before they catch up to Manila. And Blogger is totally not in the game and neither product, architecturally is suited to easy connections to editing content. Too many steps, too much memorization.

Go back to May 1999 for an explanation. "When I'm writing for the web, and I'm browsing my own site, every bit of text that I created has a button that says Edit this Page when I view it. When I click the button, a new page opens with the text in an HTML textarea. I edit. Click on Submit. The original page displays with the change. Three easy steps."

[Scripting News]
11:04:08 AM    
  
Viswanath Gondi is a design grad student at Harvard who has been a regular at the Thursday meetings. He figures lots of things out before I do. Last week I found out that he has a weblog, duh, and it's great (no surprise either). [Scripting News]
11:03:44 AM    
  

Want to add an RSS feed to your WebCT course? This April 16, 2003 entry from Brian Lamb's Object Learning blog with links shows you how to do it. [David Mattison: Distance Education]

Another way to get the job done in WebCT. This is two (or three?) ways that have come up in the past week. RSS for e-Learning applications is the Next Big Thing. You read it here first.

10:56:41 AM