http://stigmergicweb.org I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly - Michel de Montaigne Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:25:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the last blog post I'll write here. If you want to skip my droning on about why, you can just head over to the new blog, Open Monologue, at robwall.ca. If you want to stay subscribed to this blog, I'll be auto-posting the ed-tech links that I bookmark ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/10/29/last-ish-post-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ It occurred to me earlier that starting today, there are four significant countdowns in my life:Tomorrow (Oct. 26) Apple releases Leopard. I suppose this isn't really that significant or specifically involve me, but I am looking forward to the updated OS. I think that having automated backups via Time Machine ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/10/25/4-countdowns/ If you are reading StigmergicWeb via an aggregator, you should update the RSS feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stigmergicweb - I'm routing the RSS feed through feedburner. Why? Mostly just morbid curiousity with regards to how many people are actually reading this. And to make use of the way cool WordPress Reports plugin! And ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/06/06/feedburnerized/ Stephen commented on Quentin D'Souza's post regarding building a wiki community (originally from Danny Horn of Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia, he says, is not just a larger wiki with a larger contributor base than a small wiki with a group of 50 contributors (such as Muppet Wiki). Wikipedia can control content by ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/06/04/wikis-big-and-small-the-difference-is-trust/ I'm letting myself take a distraction break from marking and entering numbers into the grading program (Good old numbers ... what would school be like without them?). In OLDaily Stephen has posted about his presentation "What you really need to learn". Great stuff. I'm looking forward to the audio. Here's a ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/06/03/what-you-really-need-to-learn-some-thoughts/ I am sitting in a mind-numbing meeting. I was planning on Twittering to make my way through the morning. Sadly, Twitter seems to be ignoring me. What to do, what to do ... I understand why students spend their time in classing texting each other instead of listening. Hey, there is a ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/05/14/alas-no-twitter/ I'm upgrading and clearing out some of the detritus. Things may look a little goofy for a while, until I get the Markdown plugin installed. http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/05/08/spring-cleaning/ Today was the day that I drank the [Twitter](http://twitter.com) kool-aid. I have moved from [Stage 2](http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/04/26/stage-2-i-still-dont-get-it/) to Stage 6 (at least) in Doc Levine's description of the [epidemiology of Twitterosis](http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/). I spent (most of) my day attending the [TLt 2007 conference](http://www.tlt-itsummit2007.ca/) in Saskatoon, which is about a 90 minute drive from ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/05/02/twitter-mediated-co-presentation/ **Update/rewrite** I just installed the [PHP Markdown Extra plugin](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) in the blog, and it **seems** to be *working* My main reason for wanting a Markdown plugin is to use the offline blogging capabilities built into [Textmate](http://macromates.com/), especially with the introduction of the new [Blogmate](http://ditchnet.org/blogmate/) plugin. If the site blows up ... ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/03/22/testing-markdown/ I noticed that O'Reilly press has come out with a new short cut publication entitled How to Build an RSS 2.0 Fee The description they give is This Short Cut will give you the hands-on knowledge you need to build an RSS 2.0 feed. Well, I suppose you could pay $8 ... http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/01/30/oreillycom-online-catalog-how-to-build-an-rss-20-feed/