The Edublog Awards 2004 Results
Posted 12/12/2004 under
Education •
So many winners - The Edublog Awards 2004 Results
Seblogging: Dynamic Webpublishing, CMS and Weblogs in Education : by Sebastian Fiedler
Wired News: Blogs May Be a Wealth Hazard
Posted 07/12/2004 under News Articles •
Hmmm, just as well that I don’t say anything about where I work, or do I? I guess in a roundabout way I do mention a few things and I suppose that there has been the odd image showing some of my colleagues. The problem is, do I alert the management hierarchy to my blogging by enquiring whether they have any policy on the issue, or do I keep quiet and hope that I don’t offend anybody?
These two bloggers lost their jobs because of blogging. You can read what they have to say here and here
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The seven-year-old bloggers
Posted 15/06/2004 under News Articles •
Article from the BBC News -
“Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there - including many sites created by children.”
TIME.com: Meet Joe Blog—Jun. 21, 2004
Posted 15/06/2004 under News Articles •
A blogging article from TIME.com. There is nothing overly new here, except the update to articles that individual bloggers have released before the mainstream media, but the article is incisive and well written. OK, the author has linked to several of the usual “a-team” blogs that most of us have blogrolled at one stage or another. But there are links to less salubrious bloggers efforts as well.
I guess you’ll just have to read it for yourself and make up your own minds. Here’s an extract…
Blogs have voice and personality. They’re human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent - no, they are - the voice of the little guy.
Australian IT - Opera launches blog browser (Anick Jesdanun, MAY 17, 2004)
Posted 17/05/2004 under Linking Tools •
A NEW web browser from Opera Software ASA this week is the first major browser to incorporate an emerging technology that automatically delivers new blog entries and news articles.
or read it in “more”...
Visitors can subscribe to feeds using Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, and have new items come in regularly as individual messages in Opera’s mail client, which is packaged with the browser.
Because RSS is integrated into Opera, visitors can easily email items or open links from the same application.Support for RSS had been available primarily through standalone applications and as plug-ins for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. RSS also comes with smaller browsers like OmniWeb for Macintosh computers.
But the decision by a major browser maker to include RSS is a sign of the technology’s rapid adoption.
“In some means or another, it’s there to stay,” said Christen Krogh, Opera’s vice president of engineering.Opera is the No. 3 browser for Windows computers, behind Internet Explorer and Netscape, and is popular particularly in cell phones and handheld devices because of its small file size.
Version 7.50 was released Wednesday for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. A forthcoming version for mobile devices, however, likely will not include RSS support, Krogh said.
The Associated Press
Feedster :: RSS Search Engine
Posted 10/05/2004 under Linking Tools •
Search, create RSS feeds, worthwhile!!
pMachine announce release of ExpressionEngine Final 1.0
Posted 27/04/2004 under Blogging Tools •
It’s true, pMachine has finally released the final version 1.0 of its new weblogging tool. Some great innovations are the use of Plug in modules which will allow for further development of the tool along with the ability to manipulate images. Calendars will be fully customisable and the list of features goes on and on. The pMachine site has a comparison chart with both pMachine Free and Pro and it looks as though ExpressionEngine comes up trumps.
pMachine’s developers have indicated that development will still be carried out on pMachine, but it doesn’t take a genius to realise that most of their attention will be focussed on the new baby. The upgrade price of US$99 from pMachine Pro is probably very inexpensive if the development time is taken into consideration. There may be incentives to shell out more bickies in the future when “must have” plug ins become available.
Read the e-mail announcement from pMachine in “more”...
ExpressionEngine Final 1.0 Released
We are excited to announce the release of ExpressionEngine Final 1.0. This version delivers several new features and enhancements and marks the end of the public beta period.
Included in Version 1.0 is our new Moblog Module, enabling you to email weblog entries and photos to your ExpressionEngine site. Photos can be resized on the fly and you can have multiple moblog accounts, each with many different publishing options.
A fully customizable weblog calendar is included in the new version. You can create multiple, independent calendars, each with content from different weblogs. The calendar is completely configurable via tags and CSS. With the calendar comes a new “day view”, allowing you to dynamically show your entries for each day, complimenting the existing month, year, and various other views.
We’ve continued improving security, adding a “captcha” image feature designed to prevent automated spamming. When enabled, a captcha requires your users to submit a random word contained in an image when posting comments or when registering. ExpressionEngine can now boast the most comprehensive spam prevention tools of any publishing system.
Plugin support has been improved You can now assign plugins directly in your Publish page to format your entries. An auto-ascii conversion mode is now available as well, which automatically converts High ASCII characters and even MS Word characters in your entries.
A number of other features are available as well so please read the Change Log for details.
We want to publicly thank everyone who participated in the public beta. Your input was invaluable to us in improving and finalizing the program. Since the beta period lasted longer than we anticipated we will be extending everyone’s license period.
Version 1.0 is is a free upgrade for all existing users. The update process involves replacing some of your backend files and running an update script. Please read the update instructions contained in the new user guide. You can download Version 1.0 at: https://secure.pmachine.com/download.php
Please note: Language files are no longer distributed with the build so if you are using a language other than English, please visit:
http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine/language_packs.php- From all of us at pMachine, thank you for your support!!
BlogMatrix Jäger
Posted 26/04/2004 under Miscellaneous •
BlogMatrix Jäger is yet another Weblog and News site reader. But the difference between this reader and others is that it uses a single panel instrad of the “traditional three panel layout of most other readers. It will cost you US$15 to subscribe, but if you hurry you can pay only US$10. Worth a look at perhaps as they say that this reader will tell you ONLY what has updated.
unalog: Unalog!
Posted 26/04/2004 under Miscellaneous •
Unalog have produced this Alpha version of what seems to be another list of groups for persons interested in similar things to join and share links etc. I see that you can create a group and make it public or keep it private but other than that I’m not sure wht function Unalog serves that hasn’t been implemented previously somewhere else. Nevertheless, for the record they say…
This is unalog.
You can look at what various people and groups of people are reading on the web here. You can get an account and add your own links, and create and join groups here too. If you get an account, or create a group, either one can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.
Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
Posted 11/03/2004 under News Articles •
Connected people, links, networks - back to the 6 degrees of seperation??? Maybe not.
“There is a lot of speculation that really important people are highly connected, but really, we wonder if the highly connected people just listen to the important people,” said Lada Adamic, one of the four researchers working on the project.
The rise of blogging over the past few years has, inevitably, given way to another phenomenon, as companies are forced to confront employees’ easy access to ranting and raving about work in public online forums like Blogger and LiveJournal.
While some companies like Sun Microsystems and Microsoft express blog-friendliness, for employees who are unaware of their company’s stance on the practice or working at firms without clear policies, the consequences of posting work-related entries or photos can be sudden and shocking. This issue could be solved, experts say, with some policy tweaking.