Category: WordPress
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Developing blog post topics
Encouraged by Brian and Miguel, here’s a go at sharing how I select and develop blog post topics. Honestly, it’s a very organic, unpredictable, and dynamical process. One key is obviously making the TIME to write. Traveling and being away from home certainly provides that, so as I’m on a trip at present, I’m blogging…
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Blog post listeners, podcatchers and accessibility
I received an email today from a blog reader who is using the “listen to this post” link at the bottom of many of my posts to hear rather than read my posts. She is having trouble listening to my post on John Seely Brown’s interview with Steve Hargadon. Her email prompted me to login…
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Blogging to order and control consciousness
I am continuing to work my way through Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.” When I read the following sentences last night, I thought about blogging and the writing environment of the read/write web. The introductory sentence to the following paragraph on page 131 belies the fact that the text was written…
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Podcast107: Be (Constructively) Digitally Disruptive in 2007
In this first podcast for 2007, I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4)…
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Avoiding the Chipmunk effect in podcasts
Sounding like a chipmunk in a podcast can be a good and cool thing when it is intentional, but pretty frustrating when it is not. PodPress is a slick, free plugin for WordPress, but it can make podcasters sound like Alvin the Chipmunk when podcast listeners use the browser-based flash player — IF the wrong…
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New spamfighting method
I have no idea why, but in the last 2 days my blog has been besieged by a ton of comment spams that I suspect are from a robot program– the name of each comment spam message poster has been “Hi There.” I have been looking at a bunch of Captcha plug-ins for WordPress, as…
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Blog spam problems
For some reason a bunch of blog spams started showing up as approved comments yesterday– I have temporarily required a login for commenting– and will hopefully be updating to the latest version of WordPress which I hope will help. From time to time (but rarely) some offensive comments have gotten through. This is quite an…
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Daylight Savings Time and WordPress
Well, we had a time change where I live in North America over the weekend, and this means a slight adjustment is needed to my WordPress blog. From the dashboard of WordPress, click on OPTIONS. Then adjust the UTC time difference– in my case this switched from -5 to -6, for US Central time. Technorati…
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Talking blogs
Wow. I love the opportunities we have today, thanks to web 2.0, to learn from each other. I saw this evening some links on Will Richardson’s blog posts that said, “Listen to this podcast.” Curious, I clicked on one and was pleased to hear a reasonably human sounding computer-voice read the text of the blog…
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WordPress Multi-User
WordPress MU (multi-user) is now out of beta! This means it is stable enough for “public consumption!” For anyone running or considering running blogs in educational settings, this is GREAT news. The latest iteration of WordPress supports a fairly intuitive rights scheme that lets administrators run blogs with varying levels of user rights, which is…