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» Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse Reading Capital — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:50:52 +0000

[...] space with no overhead. I have been thinking about this format for courses, and blogged about it here. And while I am not sure such a space is conducive for discussion for a tome like Capital, I remain [...]

By: shannon model

shannon model — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:51:49 +0000

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By: Reverend

Reverend — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:12:52 +0000

Nathan,

Now I have two things on my list today thanks to you, MySyndicaat and FriendFeed. Do either of these two mash up a whole range of different feeds from a number of people?

Jim

By: Nathan Rein

Nathan Rein — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:27:04 +0000

A tool that some of you may like, if you haven’t seen it. I’ve been using MySyndicaat.com to aggregate a whole batch of my various content streams (Flickr, Tumblr, del.icio.us, etc.). MySyndicaat allows you to make a “digest” of an aggregated feed, which means you can look at the feed and hand-pick (via a checkbox) items to send through to another service. This description probably doesn’t make much sense, but it’s pretty intuitive if you try it out.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:04:30 +0000

I like the idea of a twitter-like course.
Would it be possible to have pages on the course blog that would allow you to filter?
Say the front page aggregates everything, but then you could also have a page that is aggregating the blog posts and another that is more like a twitter stream/back channel-ish thing. This would help people sort through all the information in an easy way.
Just throwing some ideas out there. I’m curious to see this implemented, maybe we can play around with some ideas next week?

By: Reverend

Reverend — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:30:08 +0000

Tony,

I like this a lot. It is th easy way to through the activity from all these tools into a course stream that I think would be compelling. I’m thinking a WPMu theme like Prologue because it might be a bit more stable and less a leap of faith in terms of its distributed nature. You wanna try and set a mock course like this up and play with it. See if we can;t get a few people to follow, and see how we would quickly share a stream of focused information into one place quickly and easily?

I’m convincing more convinced that a filtered stream that one can easily pick a single rss feed up for may be a pretty compelling way of harnessing the chaos of distributed series of tools.

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:36:34 +0000

How about the course having a twitter ID, students follow it and message to @course on the blog, which shows the @course friendfeed…?

cf. i use a tag on my delicious account (feedthru) that I use to pass posts to my blog. I keep meaning to set up a tweetthru tag that pipes a cubset of bookmarks to twitter, using the description + a tinurled encoding of the bookmarked url as the tweet entry. (Maybe this service exists already?)