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Middlebury College has an interesting project going, the Segue content management system — and they won at the Technology Collaboration Awards. Unfortunately the demo site doesn’t seem to be working at the moment, but in reading through their pages there are some interesting ideas. Every page generates its own RSS feed, which can be used to include internal references between pages — for instance a listing of recent blog posts is created utilizing the blog’s RSS feed. That sounds much more flexible than some type of fixed widget tool, or some arcane string of function calls. And any page can be defined as a blog. Wikis are in there too. Here is some more description from their site: Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo has created an interesting new plugin for WordPress which finds all sorts of interesting links and other stuff to provide more information depth to your posts. Now of course it features Yahoo services, such as Yahoo Maps and Flickr — but hey those are pretty cool. For instance if I write about a recent visit to Times Square, New York, the plugin will help link me to a map or photos. The plugin monitors your content as you create the post, and then suggests the links. You have complete control over what ultimately gets used.

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We’ve been considering the use of a WIKI for a documentation project, and this slide show from Eweek raises some good thoughts — don’t over think the implementation, keep the technology simple, focus on collaboration, tolerate less-useful posts in favor of increased participation, and have a Wiki advocate.  My main concern with the more lightweight collaborative technologies is what happens to their content, and how easy is it to get out.  It our case we’re talking about putting a lot of staff time and knowledge into whatever system we choose.  My question is will we still be able to get at it 5 years from now.

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I guess everything runs in waves, and lately it seems like Facebook is riding on the crest of one.  I’m seeing lots of news items about facebook, where as the buzz a year ago seemed to be all MySpace.  Now I know people still use MySpace — my 12 year old son for one — but is this an early indication of a phase shift?  Or is it older users moving into FaceBook? 

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Here is an interesting Facebook plug-in to share courses.  I added it, although it didn’t seem to find the course I teach — although it seemed to be looking I’m not sure where it was doing its lookup.  I also didn’t see a place to indicate myself as the instructor.  And from some reports it doesn’t look like its catching on — but I’ll give it a try…

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A partnership between Parsons, Games for Change (G4C), and MTV — working with Microsoft utilizing their Xbox development platform to research public-interest game design — with $450,000 from the MacArthur foundation — very interesting.  G4C’s 5th annual conference is coming up in June, with details promised in January.  They’ve got a regular stream of interesting new items on the site — but no RSS feed (dang!) 

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