I signed up for FeedBurner on my own blog hosted at Blogger because it was dead easy to do it through the settings page, but what I didn't realize at the time was that FeedBurner is so much more than just an alternative way of serving up feeds. So after being on Feedburner for a while, I came up with my top 5 reasons why Feedburner rocks.
- Hosting for your feeds. In my earlier blogpost I pointed you to a story on how David Airey lost his domain to crackers; however, he noted in the comments that he did not lose his feed subscribers because he was using Feedburner to serve up his feeds.
- Great stats. Feedburner has detailed stats for feeds, too, just like Analytics from Google.
- Make money. Since being acquired by Google, users can now insert relevant ads into the feeds. If you have as many visitors as subscribers, I'm sure that's a pretty penny. Check the Monetize tab of your Feedburner page.
- Settings galore. Feedburner has a lot and I mean a lot of settings. Customize how your feeds are served to your hearts content and find things that you don't even know were possible with just plain rss feeds. Check out the Optimize and Publicize tabs of your Feedburner page.
- It's Free. No arguments there.
Dave is working on hot wiring Blogger to use FeedBurner as I write this post. Go Dave!!!
Your Gmail account could have been hacked ..... [www.davidairey.co.uk]
First, let me greet everyone Happy Holidays!!!
I would just like to let everyone know about a blog article I read about how a Gmail user and graphic designer, David Airey, lost his domain to a hacker because of a gmail exploit.
Please check your gmail filters and settings to make doubly sure that you have not been hacked.
10 Blogs You Should Be Reading [halfanhour.blogspot.com]
Stephen Downes presents his personal list of 10 blogs worth reading that did not win an Edublogs award. There looks like some very interesting stuff here.
One example is OU Profiles Facebook application. This allows folks to let others know what Open University courses they are studying. This is a good complement to our Open Learning Search Facbook application that allows users find, then share, open learning content.
Solutiongrove contributes Facebook API Package to OpenACS Community, updates Friend Webs [apps.facebook.com]
Solutiongrove is pleased to announce that we have comitted the Facebook API Package code authored by Dave Bauer to the OpenACS Community. The code for the package is now available on CVS HEAD.
In addition, we have upgraded the Friend Webs Facebook application to use ExtJS 2.0 while adding the following new features:
- the ability to create, edit, and save your own Friend Webs
- mini-feed publishing of user actions
- viewing a friend's webs
Yet another interesting article in the latest issue of Innovate on an online tool to evaluate Fair Use in copyright law: Fair Use Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Study of Students' Use of an Interactive Tool to Guide Decision Making. Greenhow, Walker, Donnelly and Cohen (2008) evaluated a Fair Use Analysis (FUA) tool developed by the University of Minnesota Libraries intended to scaffold working educators who wanted make a good decision as to whether they were within Fair Use guidelines.
Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin for Wordpress [www.ysearchblog.com]
Yahoo Shortcuts are links to interesting, hopefully related content. Yahoo has released a plugin for the popular blogging platform Wordpress. This plugin scans the content of your post while you write it and shows suggested items to link to. The suggestions can include links to products, companies, Flickr photos, and more. The author always has the option to decide what shortcuts to add in. The plugin is backed by the Yahoo Term Extraction Service.
So far there are no ads in this content from Yahoo. A comprehensive review of the plugin is on Search Engine Journal.
In this day and age, people write blogs for many reasons: one, to make money out of it; two, to gain popularity; three, to share their thoughts and ideas about what interests them; four, to tell their story, like what you do in a personal journal; or five, as a hobby, to simply destress themselves by expressing their hearts out.
It's interesting the way different people write about different things on the Web. Coming across some very insightful blogs and comments, I realized blogging can also be a way to learn and connect with people. I'm not a blogger myself, though I used to have my personal journal in my teenage years, but learning about some blogging tips, I thought it can be interesting if you only put your heart into it.
For this particular implementation, we will be working with the following software versions: Moodle 1.8.3 and ELGG 0.8.1.
The assumption is that Moodle and ELGG were already properly installed and is confirmed to be working.
Here are the steps:
The Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly Big Question. For December the question is: What did you learn about learning in 2007?
This year I started a Master's program at Harvard Graduate School for Education with a course on "Learning Technologies Across the Content Areas" by Prof. Barry Fishman. However, what was valuable was not being exposed to the various learning technologies but to the basics of the Learning Theory. Uninspired pedagogy in the classroom, translation onto the Web is not going to be any better.
by Robert Herrick
WHENAS in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free ;
O how that glittering taketh me !
Tonight is my play with new Web 2.0 sites night. So how do you go from Web 2 to Renaissance Poetry?
It all starts when Jott spams me with an announcement of their new jott-links that let me add events to my google calendar by dialing their number and speaking into my cell phone. This seems cool and when I get to the signup page there is a list of other web sites that have jott-links. One of them is Mosio, which is a service that promises you human answers to any message you text them.
DAMN! Why didn't I read about Zotero 2 months ago? I just finished my first research paper in 20 years and, let me tell you, it was not a pleasant experience. Thanks to Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, I now know about Zotero, an open source firefox plug-in. If you have a paper due soon check out the video tour.
Version 1.0 looks useful for an individual student, but what I am really watching is the server support in Version 2.0 that will let people share resources, urls, notes, etc. Many K-12 schools have issues with student information being shared on the open internet. Because Zotero is open source it could potentially be set up for a single school, creating a private version of a top rate research tool. I will be watching to see how well it could be integrated into a Personal Learning Solution (PLS). My wish list includes:
One of our clients, The Center for 21st Century Skills, is a leader in this arena and we are supporting the ELGG–Moodle Personal Learning Solution they are using in high schools in Connecticut.
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