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Category Archives: weblogs

Last-ish post: So long and thanks for all the fish

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 at del.icio.us so and I’ll [...]

4 Countdowns

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 will be the best [...]

Feedburnerized

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 if you aren’t reading [...]

Spring Cleaning

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.

Testing markdown

**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 … well, I guess if [...]

Blogs as tools to support a Community of Inquiry

I’m reading a paper right now entitled Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion in Online Educational Contexts by Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson, published in the November edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (thanks to Stephen for the pointer to this). When I write that I’m reading it right now, I [...]

Hello to my students

I’ve found out that my students have found my blog. I guess its time to stop talking about them. ;^) Just kidding, James (and anyone else who wanders this way). Feel free to check in every once in a while. I spend a lot of time talking about students, so you can even correct me [...]

And I was feeling neglected

Oops. I just got an email from Alec letting me know that his comment on my previous post was not getting through. I checked and it seems that Spam Karma 2 had gone bad on me, and was giving errors on any submitted comments. I deactivated SK2 and reactivated Akismet, which still shows all the [...]

Offline blogging tools – test 2

Another test post using an offline blogging tool. This time I’m trying MarsEdit. It looks nice too!

Offline blogging tools – test 1

Sorry for the RSS feed noise, but I’m testing ecto, an offline blogging tool for the Mac (Windows version also available).