Category: blogs
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Exponential blog growth
The documented growth in managed Feedburner blogs is eyeopening, and a visual representation of what it means to live in the elbow of exponential growth, as I discussed in my 9th Podcast on the purposes of my writing project, “Publish At Will.” This is not a linear growth pattern: it is exponential. Wikipedia has a…
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FeedBlitz email list subscriptions available!
I am thrilled to learn that Feedburner subscribers can now permit anyone to subscribe to free email updates of blog postings, with a new free service called Feedblitz. I have activated this service for my blog, and am providing three different email subscription options. I also have details about the “Educational Technology posts only” email…
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Blog Search Tools
Google is supporting a new Blogger search tool: http://search.blogger.com. I have not personally used this, but will in upcoming weeks. My favorite blog search tool remains Technorati: www.technorati.com.
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AASL conference blog invitation
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is inviting a select group of attendees to help blog the conference. Very innovative and forward looking. Even more flexible, however, is just getting ANYONE to blog the conference using a common tag with Technorati. That’s what attendees at WebZine2005 did successfully in Sept 2005.
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Disruptive Technology Censorship?
This past weekend I finished writing a new article I had intended to publish in the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association. I have been a regular columnist for the TechEdge since 1997, all my published articles are available online in my “Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom” article…
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Blogging TCEA 2006
My latest article for the TechEdge: “Blogging TCEA 2006: Create, Share & Access”, will be published in print later this school year prior to the TCEA February 2006 conference in Austin, Texas. A short excerpt: The advent of web technologies like text blogs (www.edublogs.org), photo blogs like Flickr (www.flickr.com), and tagging/search tools like Technorati (www.technorati.com)…
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What IS RSS?
My Microcomputer Applications students this term helped me design and gather resources for a short 6 minute animated movie I created this evening, entitled “What is RSS?” Another title for this short film could be, “How Do I Find the Information I Want?” The animated movie “Get Creative” from Creative Commons was our inspiration for…
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MAMP, WAMP, Instiki
Thanks to Miguel Guhlin for the links to MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP) and WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL/PHP). Miguel obviously had some good time on his hands this weekend to do some serious tinkering with some powerful read/write web tools. Miguel has done some great experimenting with Plone, Mambo and Joomla which I blogged…
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Feedvalidator
Feedvalidator (www.feedvalidator.org) is a useful, free tool for helping troubleshoot problems with a blog or podcast feed. Using this for my feedburner podcast subscription URL (http://feeds.feedburner.com/speedofcreativity/podcasts), I learned that it is not “best practice” / recommended to either: include HTML code in the subtitle include HTML code in the summary I am wondering how to…
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Google news RSS feeds from the source
One of the best ways to track current news articles about a particular topic you or a student may be researching is to use a customized Google news RSS feed. Google News (news.google.com) tracks over 4500 different news sources, and the list is constantly growing. Until recently, Justin P Fister’s website was the place to…