DISQUS

Thanks for the comments - I think Mark and the video guys have done just a great job with the video and audio podcasts. My attention span can be about three minutes long, so it's perfect for me and, I think, the average busy teacher. Oops... three minutes are... zzzzzz

Blacklisting an entire nation? Doesn't sound quite right to me. Bit like China blocking any UK sites - how would that be viewed?

This looks really cool; I'd love an invite at e.mcintosh@LTScotland.org.uk
Cheers!

It might seem scarily organised but something tells me that this August 6th, or there abouts, I'm going to need to up my efforts even more ;-)

When I first started working all over the joint instead of being in one, relatively steady place, I found myself writing lists of things I could do offline when I was on the train (with laptop) on the bus (with iPod and phone) or stuck for ten minutes in between appointments or waiting for said bus or train. Now I've got a good idea before I step out the door what I need to get done in each place but it doesn't stop being webless being a really strange sensation!

To link back to Hugh Macleod, I think that with a built-up Global Microbrand you can live anywhere - even if a wee place like Scotland - and have a disproportionate influence on educational change elsewhere around the world.

However, what I find interesting is how the large number of American educators who blog about their woes in trying to change a system in crisis are drowning out the voices of many of the worthwhile voices coming from elsewhere around the world, particularly from the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

So, maybe there is value for this ambitious project to be kicked off in SF, after all ;-)

I have.

From Graham at work today:

We've got a similar layout issue with the skin that we're planning to
use for the edupedia - works fine in everything except IE6/7. I don't
know if [our designer]'s managed to have a proper look at it yet, and he's off
sick today, but if we make any progress I'll keep them in the loop.

I'll see if any of our MediaWiki guys can help out at work. We're also getting to grips with it at LTS so they my be as bamboozled as you, but we can try :-)

I had the *same* ones when I was wee. They were fantastic, although they had a funny smell when they had been in operation for a while. Probably some poisonous material on the speakers. What I loved was when you half-pressed the button you got that TJ Hooker type "chschschs' noise. Oh, those were the days...

It looks like Gordon McKinlay is also up there enjoying the wifi at the moment. Have you spotted any other edubloggers sipping their lattes?

The old chestnut of "are they racist" or "are they just stupid" is coming out this side of the pond as overt racism is played out on national TV against an Indian contestant of Celebrity Big Brother (and Jermaine Jackson is getting some, too). The TV complaint watchdog's website has even collapsed under the strain of last night's 20,000+ complaints that got through!

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/01/little_bi...

I think the Glow team will be chuffed that this is happening but green with envy, Bob? As Robert says education is why we are here, not for US or THEM to provide the top one-stop-shop but to improve the education of our learners, be they 3-18 years, over 18s, teachers, parents...

What I would hope is that the ScotEduBlogs system is integrable into the Glow portal if the user chooses so. In principle it's possible through the XML editor but it's still not 'one-click' enough for me. Once the portal becomes public properly I look forward to seeing a lot more individuals writing content for it to make it a truly national portal and not the portal of one or two organisations.

I know the GNU Public License and guess my question comes down to whether the proprietary code in the Web 2.0 tools you name is, now, that secret. If you know Ruby, Ajax, Javascript, HTML, XHTML, XML and all the rest is it not relatively easy for a group "that know how" to replicate those services? In the same way, does it not take a certain degree of having "that know how" to take advantage of the development opportunities in Open Source? At the end of the day, for the average user, they're both free and apparently stable platforms. What are the other USPs of Open Source?

This is the way that most startups and VCs view things, too, tbh. Doug Richards, the entrepreneur and angel from Dragons Den, said himself at Mediatech2.006 that having the patents on something (what the Dragons from the Den always seem to be banging on about) was much less important today than how you package and follow up the service. If Open Source doesn't have the exclusivity on good support and moreover most web-based startups offer support for free or use the community to provide it for the bettering of the free product they are receiving, is there a further difference we're not seeing?
Disclosure: I'm about to eat dinner and haven't heard the radio show ;-)

Looking really good - I'll have a proper poke around tomorrow. Nice work!

There's now a brilliant Quintura for Kids, which I reckon fills in an as yet untapped group:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/quintura_...

Worth pointing out that Loic has (kind of) responded, although it's unhealthily defensive. His co-organising pal Ouriel has also posted but has done so in an way which only panders to the kind of "you say tomato" debate that gets things nowhere:

http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2006/12/leweb3...

(though he has also accepted that 'two stars and a wish' is sometimes better than feeling you have to take a stance).

Interesting case study for the next book, Robert ;-)

Why does everyone read into my post as me bashing Sharepoint?!?! It's just not true!!! ;-)

This what you're looking for maybe:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/blastfeed...

Manual trackback for the discussion:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/lts_at_th...

You've both given me an excuse to go and get mine today. I realised this weekend that if we didn't get it soon I would only see it for three days before Christmas since I'm away on work. You've no idea how happy you've made me... ;-)

Well, there's a lot more that's not on the sidebar. We are in the process of putting together feeds based around certain types of Excel blogs rather than the feed of the whole thing - a bit OTT for most users. We're also looking at things other than blogs, of course, which mostly carry RSS feeds so it'll be an interesting river of information. It's certainly a useful tool for keeping track of things from outside the admin dashboard of the blog engine.

They're not your idea - I heard at least four companies also proclaiming it was their idea today (see my point: http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/11/intellect...) You already get blog posts that allow you to say how useful they were for you (in Vox, for example) and, as such, your information dwindles to more and more relevant stuff. Sorry to kill your startup ;-) Get that IP patent in the next time!

In many countries, especially France since the 1968 riots, it is unthinkable to have *any* police present on university campus, a place where the market is in expression of thought. In Scottish libraries we also have limits on who can enter a library - you must have your card with you to get in, thus avoiding the issue in the first place.

I am completely shocked by this outrageous behaviour and hope that some severe action is taken against these rogue policemen. For me it amounts to nothing more and nothing less than serious assault.