digital lifeboat

Catching up on some reading today, trying to find bloggers relevant to my work

http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/

Dear [blogger ] blog will you ever forgive me for leaving you…hope all is forgiven I’m back.

Eduspaces is being held to ransome by the site owners who appear to be blackmailing the education community into taking action!

Weeks 1-10 from this semseter have been backed up and posted to Web ct. I can’ t see any way of re- publishing having lost all the comments and the grouping.

Later imported into this wordpress.

The sad lesson is you get what you pay for in life and there is no such thing as a free lunch. I will have to find another method of achieveing the sort of flexibility and creative working we had in eduspaces.

I certainly have to think of a rock solid solution for the third year. I guess everything will have to just be posted twice. I will use web ct for evidence and this blog for mulling and thinking, but the collaborative stuff will not happen. Why should a lecturer go to half a dozen different blog sites to keep track of their students.

Today I was following a current controversial news story and checked into the bbc news website to see the latest on the situation. I was surprised and interested to see that following an update on the facts there was a rating of the story as it appears in global blog postings. It was also reported that a protest Facebook group had been started in response to this particuar situation.

This may have been going on before but I have never noticed activity on the “blogosphere” reported on the bbc news online as part of the main news item coverage before.

“A brief survey by BBC Monitoring on 29 November 2007 indicated that the story was not yet featuring prominently in the global blogosphere.

For example, a search on the Technorati website at 0945 GMT produced fewer than 300 hits, mostly from US and UK bloggers. “