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When blogging less becomes more

June 29, 2009 By 8 Comments

As many of you know I’m in the midst of writing my first book (zapped off three more chapters yesterday!) which is entitled “Six Easy Blogging Projects” and one of the last chapters in the book is creating a “Lifestreaming blog”. When I was putting the book’s outline together I had no idea that I [...]

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Is Twitter too noisy for conferences?

June 25, 2009 By 1 Comment

In 2005 it was live blogging, in 2009 it’s live tweeting, letting people know what is going on at a conference has changed a lot in a few years. Back in 2005, it was pretty easy to keep the back channel private and public discussions (relatively) on topic. Now because a conference hashtag can take [...]

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WordPress.com and WordPress can co-exist, but maybe with new names

June 24, 2009 By 3 Comments

In the WordPress world many of us, especially those like me who teach people how to use it, are often explaining WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to people. The answer, simply, is WP.com is a hosted service where you can have a WordPress-powered blog/site and WP.org is where you download the WordPress software to install on your [...]

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Testing, Learning, Cheating, and Tech: Is it time for a change?

June 23, 2009 By 4 Comments

Remember cheating back in school? I do. I also remember getting caught too, so lesson learned. Now what about “open book” or “open note” tests? When I took AP European History in 12th grade our tests were “open book”. Why? Our teacher knew that a lot of tests in college were going to be like [...]

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Broken record: it’s about getting an open server, not bulking up Twitter

June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

At the price of sounding like a broken record, discussion about Twitter being “mission critical” or too important to have down time is a red herring. The fact is that what is really needed is for more Laconi.ca servers and connectors between them, Identi.ca, and Twitter. Email works because there are few single points of [...]

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