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Open Source Software for Online Exhibitions February 23rd, 2008 Inside Higher Ed reports on a new open source software application for publishing online collections and exhibits called Omeka. The free program was created by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media, who also developed Zotero, the Firefox extension for citation management. It is currently being used by the April 16 Archive at Virginia Tech to preserve the stories of the tragedy that happened there. Posted in

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LiveBlog of Matt Mullenweg Keynote — Northern Voice Submitted by Bill on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 12:02. LiveBlog of Matt Mullenweg’s Keynote — Streamed at http://ustream.tv/channel/nv08 (at least some of it) Note: This liveblog is rough — just notes, no editing Beginning blog platforms — Open Diary — 1998 LiveJournal — 1999 5 years ago — based on B2 Over 7 million downloads MM on what Bloggers want — “Bloggers hierarchy of needs” 1. Expression The most important tab on the WP blog

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Yesterday, BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque set off a storm by suggesting that tech blog networks are peaking. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in the technology blog network space has gone down considerably. While many of these blogs are hiring from traditional media, established publications are firing back with their own blogs and blog networks. CNET for one has been very aggressive, even appointing blogger Dan Farber to become editor in chief at News.com (of course, Farber is so much mo

Original post by HipMojo.com

It was to be a short stop over in the care home in Welshpool, so short i cant really remember much of it at all. Where to now with my bag and my little purple car. All i can say was it was another long and endless car journey who with i don’t know but […]

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Would you like to have a marketing tool that can save your business thousands of dollars? And with just one click it provides exceptional business opportunities. I’m talking about Business blogs. Blogs are a flexible medium for broadcasting useful information for your product or service. They are also very effective in the positioning of your product or service in the market. If you want to have a definite advantage over your competitors engage in business blogging. If the previous reasons di

Original post by 00000 - Blogs and more

Orkut has announced its opening of platform to developers way back in November. Since then there has been no news as to when would these applications finally be seen on the orkut platform. But now the orkut blog updates all on the issue with a statement that soon some of the orkutters would be able to add and experience these applications. Soon in this case would be as soon as 2 weeks. Despite of the rising popularity of facebook orkut is still the biggest social network in india as accor

Original post by WATBlog.com - The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India!

The explosion of the social web has redefined the way we perceive social connections, our individual role in the social grid (may it be online or offline) and the importance of the collective intelligence. We, the user of the social web, take full advantage of this revolution by promoting our blogs, our work, our affiliates, our software. To an extent all our practices in the social web are working for our self-interest. Social Connections before the social web, we were dealing with the intere

Original post by social media and green horses

OU’s Social:Learn Project Written by The Gromm on February 21, 2008 – 1:01 pm - Had a fun Flashmeeting with my tutor and some of my course mates last night. We were looking at theories including push/pull in learning and teaching and how this applies to elearning (we’re doing some old-school reading of books and were discussing E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time by Morrison.) At one point we got chatting about how/whether pull learning (where you

Original post by The (e)Grommet

Once an error, always an error While working on a javascript code yesterday, I realized the code doesn’t reach the line I needed it to see. I am not a big javascript fan. Actually, I don’t usually code for js. So, I was staring at this piece of code for two hours.. I just have to call for help. Luckily, helpline pointed out that a javascript code don’t ignore errors (hehe.. I thought it does), it stops at them. That’s not a workaround actually, but it could help. As for the real workaround,

Original post by valeriejoy

I don’t feel any particular the way Kosovo became independent. This was predicted even though I wasn’t so sure. There was no choice as there was no solution reached. I don’t know what the Serb leaders offered the Kosovans physically and as promises for peace and developments but I believe the Kosovans wanted their independence anyway and this is their only choice. The war against the Kosovan Albanians made the two communities never to reconcile as a country. The problem was Russia’s involvemen

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