Those who read this blog via an aggregator are probably not aware that we’ve just pushed out a refreshed front page for the blogs.educationau.edu.au site:
You’ll note that this now exposes blog post categories in the now-traditional tag-cloud interface, backed by a sophisticated search built using the open source Solr search engine. This implementation allows search […]
There’s no doubt that the set of bloggers we have here at education.au are a wonderful resource who’s collective wisdom would enhance the day of any person.
That’s why I’ve enabled OpenSearch on the blogs.educationau.edu.au website: now you can search our collected writing directly from your browser.
The next time you visit the blogs.educationau.edu.au site you’ll see […]
Firefox 2.0 has just been released, and should become the browser of choice for many people.
One of its many improvements is a much better way to subscibe to website RSS feeds.
In this post I’ll show how you can subscribe to the rss feed for blogs.educationau.edu.au.
Firstly, download and install Firefox 2.0. This post will still be […]
Val Evans over at the Social Software for Learning blog asks
What about using social software, viz blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and virtual conferencing in the VTE teaching and learning environment? How are they being used now? How could they be used better? Which disciplines do they suit best? Should they be used at all?
And what […]
The US Intelligence Community recently released a study comparing RSS and Atom. The findings are interesting (if somewhat predictable):
If you must use RSS, then we recommend RSS 0.91 or RSS 2.0, preferably the latter.
However, for all of the reasons presented in this paper, we recommend a gradual transition to Atom 1.0 for the Intelligence Community […]
Miles wrote recently about his use of webified desktop applications. For those people interested in this area it would pay to checkout Microsoft Max. Max is a combination of a photo management/sharing program and a newsreader.
While it is very much still in beta, it does show how the next generation of desktop applications will look. […]
Shel Israel (co-author of “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers“) recently spent some time at Sun Microsystems talking about how Sun was doing in the social sites/participation age content space. He said he thinks Sun “may be the ‘blogging-est company in the world’ based on the large percentage of […]
When starting a new blog it’s important to see where your readers are coming from and how many there are.
In the Education.au blogging system I’ve installed three statistics plugins. These can be enabled by going to the Plugins->Plugins page and activating the Google Analytics, Feedburner Feed Replacement and PMetrics plugins.
Those plugins enable statistics collection by […]
