Category: blogs
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Visitors in the last 2 weeks
Clustrmaps continues to provide some of the most amazing visual information I’ve ever seen on the Internet, or likely anywhere else. The following is a global graphic of visitors to this blog in just the last 14 days: I’ve said this before, so please forgive me for repeating myself, but this is SO AMAZING! Is…
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Thoughts on junk blogs
I posted the following as a comment to Miguel’s recent post on “Junk Blogs.” I agree with Stephen: In this conversation people should look at the blogosphere as a whole, and not just individual blogs. Certainly there are blogs that appeal more than others depending on personal preferences and interests. One person’s junk blog is…
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Homeless bloggers share their voices
The digital divide is real and needs to be addressed, but this article from Wired came as a surprise to me today: Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus parked in a Fillmore, California, orange grove, the 53-year-old homeless man charges a power generator from a utility shed and uses Wi-Fi from a nearby access point.…
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Digital literacy workshop curriculum
I am sharing a series of three workshops on digital literacy, focusing on blogging and podcasting, this week in College Station, Texas. I have created a new Digital Literacy wiki that I’ll be using and likely continuing to use in the months to come. Please check it out and feel free to add resources you…
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Awesome reflections on Web 2.0
David Warlick posted his presentation about web 2.0 as a series of 4 podcasts episodes (look for #61) on his Connect Learning podcast recently, and this evening as I’ve been working on other things I listened to the first three segments. Fantastic stuff here, I highly commend it to you. A few things I liked…
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Understanding the blogosphere
David Sifry is the co-founder of Technorati, the best blog search tool I have used to date. About a year ago BusinessWeek published an interview with David, and he talked about the nature of information in the blogosphere and the interactions happening here, as well as his company and business vision. I heartily agree with…
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SLJ mention
I learned today that I was mentioned in the May 2006 issue of School Library Journal, in “The Buzz” column in an entry titled, “A Tech Guy Worth Knowing.” The article states: Wesley Fryer— self-described on his Web site as an educator, author, and digital storyteller— maintains a blog entitled “Moving at the Speed of…
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Thoughts on DOPA
Great Bit by Bit podcast recently by Bob Sprankle and Cheryl Oakes on the proposed DOPA legislation in the US. Refer to their podcast shownotes for some good background links and other opinion pieces. I appreciated a lot of their insights– and I don’t think Bob digressed too much with his Star Wars analogy of…
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Email blog and podcast subscriptions
Like Feedblitz, Zookoda is a free web service that permits people who prefer email versions of blog posts to receive them according to a specified schedule. Zookoda appears to provide more options for the schedule on which subscribers receive emails. I have been using Feedblitz for over six months, and have 55 people who currently…
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Analyzing blog access statistics
Big surprise today as I look at my Feedburner reported blog statistics: Overnight the number of reported subscribers has jumped from about 300 total to over 50,000 in one day. For some reason, the Netvibes aggregator seems to be severely skewing my reported blog subscriber numbers. Something fishy is going on….. This next graphic shows…