Monthly Archives: December 2006

The WordPress Plugins in My Life

Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered … Continue reading

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Alex King’s Articles Plugin for WordPress

If you haven’t already, go check out Alex King’s post about the plugins he is employing for the redevelopment of his WordPress site. He has produced some unbelievably cool functionality for WordPress, and the community owes him much. I took … Continue reading

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Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!

Jim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles … Continue reading

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Optimizing with Optimal -A Plugin for WordPress

I have been playing pretty intently with WordPress these days in an attempt to develop out a UMW Division of Teaching & Learning Technologies site that features our projects, aggregates our blog posts & del.iciou.us feeds, while also acting as … Continue reading

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YOUTUBERS: the video!

I was just reading Andy Rush’s blog, spending some quality time admiring his new “My YouTube Favorites” sidebar widget -very nice!, when I came cross a veritable gem! He is always good for an entertaining video, but the one I … Continue reading

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A Social Revolution: The Web 2.0 Poster

Ross Mayfield’s “revolucion” poster puts a very specific context of the social back into Social Networking! “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people,” Ross Mayfield – WEb 2.0 Conference. via Christian Contini

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The Grammar Mechanic via cac.ophony

Mikhail Gershovich over at cacophony just pointed to a great video on YouTube that features a clip from a 1980s sitcom called Grammar Mechanic. If I am remembering correctly, it was sandwiched between The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes … Continue reading

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The so-called last FREEMAN!

There has been some speculation as to my uncanny resemblance to Gordon Freeman -a video game superhero with a Ph.D. in Physics. I hope the pictures below will finally put the question as to whether I am or am not … Continue reading

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BDP RSS: A WordPress Aggregator that Works

This semester has raised some questions that have led me to start searching for a better rss aggregation tool for WordPress. And, as is often the case in the WordPress community, I think I have already found it! The background … Continue reading

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The CUNY IT Conference: I am glad to see the conversation continues

Luke Waltzer, of cac.ophony fame, has done a nice job blogging some of the highlights from the CUNY IT conference on December 1st. One post in particular about the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program has led to a very interesting conversation … Continue reading

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