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Tale of the FeedWordPress Tape

Published by Reverend September 2nd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, rss, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 10 Comments

Image courtesy of Looking for Fish tacos at ELI 2006, aka CogDog.
Well, I have finally gotten a free minute to get this all down, and get it down I will in hopes that I can drum up some help and support in working through a couple of the issues we’re having with FeedWordPress. So, [...]

Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu

Published by Reverend July 10th, 2008 in WordPress, rss, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 Comments

This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, so download them ahead of time from the links below:
1) Oz Politics’s BDP RSS [...]

Finally, Course Aggregation Made Easy

Published by Reverend May 16th, 2008 in insructional technology, plugins, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 Comments

photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with very little work, but a little bit of money for the plugin extension ($50 to [...]

This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 2

Published by Reverend May 8th, 2008 in e-portfolios. 11 Comments

So, in an attempt to galvanize my mania to its most chaotically productive for Faculty Academy 2008, I’ll go on with this e-portfolio madness, as promised. However, the comments on part 1 are already making me wonder whether this post shouldn’t be written by D’Arcy, Chris, Phaedral, or Cole (or perhaps all of them)?
That [...]

WPMu as eduglu?

Published by Reverend March 9th, 2008 in insructional technology, open education, plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 Comments

I find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an educational publishing platform (that will, indeed, prove the prototype of a “BlackBoard killer” sooner [...]