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Two small me.edu.au easter eggs: RSS and APML support

It’s Christmas tomorrow, which makes it the perfect time to mention two easter eggs [1] in me.edu.au.
Firstly, RSS output support for your activities. This lets someone else subscribe to what you are doing on me.edu.au. To see this go to your public profile (mine is http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian) and then append “/rss” to the address (eg, http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/rss).
Secondly, […]

Displaying data on the web

Kerrie blogged yesterday about a recent release of data from the ABS. The bit which caught my attention was:
my first thought was - what lovely statistical stuff for kids to play with in Excel. For example in a file called Schools by category, we have snapshots of numbers of schools in Government, Catholic, and Independent […]

Add Education.au blogs to your browser’s 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 […]

Subscribing to feeds in FireFox 2

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 […]