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David Davies
Disruptive Technology
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elearningpost
elearnspace
Headshift Moments
HomoLudens
Jim Flowers
Learning Circuits
Many 2 Many
Mark Roseman
Online Learning
open-education
Seblogging
Stephen Downes
teachnology
Ten Reasons Why
Tim Lauer
SiT
Weblogg-ed
X-Plana

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A Networked World
headshift moments
mamamusings
tmt, tlt
McGee's Musings
Micah Alpern
Microdoc News
Powazek
Scripting News

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Connectivity
Library Stuff
Mathemagenic
Open Access News
Seb's Open Research
The Shifted Librarian
Unbound Spiral


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Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Introducing blam! and blaxm!. Alf has baked some of the ideas of Structured Blogging into a tool called blam! that produces nice structured book/CD/DVD reviews upon filling a form. He writes blam! has become a templating tool for writing reviews of (so far) books, CDs and DVDs. You enter the ASIN/ISBN number of the item you're reviewing, then fill in the name and URL of your weblog, your Amazon associates ID if you have one, and your review. blam! uses Amazon's web services to look up the metadata for that item, then produces the HTML you need to paste into your weblog, including an image of the item, referral links to Amazon, and metadata that will allow sites like allconsuming.net to pick up your review (like this one). This tool works in conjunction with blaxm!, which is a review repository. Neat. [Seb's Open Research] Not sure if I'm totally missing the point of structured blogging here but it sounds like something a lot of people I work with would like. I think it's the open-space of the weblog that kinda freaks them out, but what I hear time & again is an 'if we could set catagories & templates & this & that then it would be *really* cool. Me, I'm not too sure, I think that if the instructional message is clear enough then the structure will be too... even on a blank page :o) But, I'm open to persuasion! 4:53:23 PM    comments   trackback

Lindon Parker emails me about Manila's new 'Community Aggregator' which is pretty darn good looking if you ask me. There looks like there are some other cool community aggregator things going on out there like the Gurteen Klog Community Aggregator and DW has got this aggregator up and running at Harvard. Seblogging's got a good stream on this. I guess the basic idea & what has driven these is the idea of collating news you want but it could really prove powerful if collating learners weblogs into one community hub... couldn't it? Or would it be too much stuff??? So: Tutor weblog = posts with discussion functionality & community aggregator (present & past learners!) also with comments options & content storage.... stick on some simple archiving & 'protection' (with associated simple back end - simple eh? :o) ) and the Manila-esque facility for users to create weblogs themselves dead easily and you're away eh! Mark from Courseforum emailed me their thing today (thanx :o) and it looks pretty cool, the way that posting & editing pages is *that* easy... makes plenty of other LMSs look like lumbering beasts indeed! Going to check that out more, wonder how tyricky it would be to slip in a weblog tool? Whoops, far too many issues for one post... need to sort out titles & slices! 4:47:08 PM    comments   trackback

Nothing to do with the great civil rights leader, James Farmer, but here are some links that are:

Greensboro sit-ins
Reflections
Family (with pictures)


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