Updated August 29 2008. About a week or so after my return from abroad, all traces of my summer vacation had disappeared from the embedded FriendFeed post which I had set up … the remains of which appear below. I removed the feed because it kept updating, keeping pace with the social networks and posts
Continue reading ...My annual pilgrimage to the northern summer begins this weekend. I’m heading from the cold southern hemisphere winter (of sorts) … it’s never really all that cold in Queensland … to the Mediterranean for a week or so, and then on via France to England. There it will be a lot of theatre and catching
Continue reading ...Comment systems are the latest webb apps to intrigue me, but boy are they volatile. I had pretty much decided to let go of CoComment and throw in my lot with Disqus both regular, traditional comment systems … you know, the kind where you use words and write sentences? At the same time I was
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia I’ve written before about the various challenges I’ve set myself when travelling either to conferences or overseas: what to pack, how to minimise the clutter, how to stay in touch effectively and economically (time and $). One other challenge that remains for me is to get everything into one carry-on bag. I’m
Continue reading ...This is a comment ‘upgraded’ to a post. The original was in response to an inquiry from a colleague in the US. She asked for some tips on using a class blog. My response got long, and by the end I thought it probably could do with a dust-off and a reshaping into a stand-alone
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Nearly at the end now, and days 29-31 have been about wrapping up the 31 Day Comment Challenge. The final 3 days focus on the learnings: to prepare a commenting guide for students, to consider how learnings from this commenting project could change one’s teaching practices, and finally … to reflect on
Continue reading ...This is piggy-backing a little on branding, one of the ancillary threads running through the 31 Day Comment Challenge. I’m wondering what role you think your blog’s theme plays in the matter of branding you and your blog? Why did you choose the theme you are using right now? Was it because it fits your
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Do I have a blog comment strategy to build readership such as Caroline Middlebrook has? In a word, no. Maybe I should … but then again … . Caroline has some great strategies via commenting to build RSS subscriptions and to promote her business, and I think anyone seeking to develop an
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Commenting: challenges of another sort
It’s been a busy couple of days for me. Ignoring the beautiful weather outside, I’ve been engaged in video conversations with the Seesmic community. My previous post outlined some of the challenges I faced at the outset. I’ve been interested to see how others on Seesmic deal with video commenting. The style is eclectic; some
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