After all that planning, my school department’s Drupal-based web portal is finally up! Its present design is based on the SpreadFirefox theme and the only “community” part of it is the forums section. Judging from the content of some of the posts though, it looks like many are quickly reverting to SMS-style “language”. Urgh! Now, the question is: to moderate or not to moderate??
Almost went crazy when I realised that comments couldn’t seem to be posted properly on this blog shortly after upgrading to WordPress 1.5.1.3. After a little swearing and 2 almost-clean installs of WordPress (everything fresh except the MySQL database itself), I was just about to consider the possibility that perhaps it was time to start the blog anew (on hindsight, I’m not sure why I even considered this – I must have used and reinstalled Windows far too many times!)…
After reading about it in today’s papers about blog hosting by a local web hosting provider, I simply couldn’t resist checking out the details. Lo and behold, Usonyx‘s marketed blog solution U-Blog is based on WordPress! Which really says a lot about WordPress’ ease of use, really. The U-Blog page looks really good, especially the screenshots, and makes everything look so inviting to anyone wanting a simple-to-use blog solution. I think it’s also nice that they’ve made an effort to…
I’ve heard about podcasts and applications like iPodderX that supposedly make it really easy to transfer podcasts over into your iPod. But somehow the idea of listening to some fellow’s scratchy recording of his rambling or rantings simply didn’t appeal at all to me. So I greeted the news that iTunes now has integrated podcasts capability with a yawn. In fact, I was more intrigued by the news that the 20GB iPod now comes with colour screens too..hehe.. (must…resist….upgrade bug!!)…
Haven’t posted about blogging for a while, so here’s a huge one. Despite a lot of talk about blogging in the classroom by many edublog-type sites, it is clear that the idea of actually assessing blogwork for assignments is still a new and evolving one. I personally haven’t really tried to go beyond looking at the blogs as a form of portfolio or journal to track the progress of a project. Nonetheless, the web is hardly lacking in excellent student-written…
When I first started browsing the web way back in the mid-1990s (has it been 10 years already??), I found myself clicking on the same old bookmarks over and over again every day just to check what’s been updated. Nowadays, thanks to RSS, that’s no longer necessary. In fact, there’re so many uses for RSS, it’s really dizzying! I personally use NetNewsWire to keep track of all my favourite websites and blogs because I prefer its interface to the built-in…