cerebral odd jobs

The cool cat at //engtech has created a nifty work-around for edublogses and other WPMU sites to generate a “tag cloud” of most used categories in your blog.
Tag Cloud Generator for Wordpress.com
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/tag_cloud_generator_for_wordpress/
Here are the results here–
AI/AN   Alaska   blogging blogginess   edublogs.org   in process   organizational culture   public draft   sciencing   [...]

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test mp3 of the Anchorage tide right click to download and play

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The cool cat at http://engtech.wordpress.com suggested a way to use the bookmark site, del.icio.us to mark various items from the web which would be of use to the edublogses. For example, his posts on theme reviews and his Auntie-Spam script for Firefox.
Here is what I have run across on the web and started to bookmark, [...]

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Some suggested resources for those new to edublogs.org and its siblings, based on the WordPressMU platform.
ProBloggers - Blogging for Beginners Series

Whether you are a novice, beginner, intermediate, or advanced blogger, take time to read through the Blogging for Beginners series by ProBlogger.
It covers a wide range of topics that you need to know to help [...]

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See Lorelle vanFossen for issues specific to blogging

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=plagiarism&searchsubmit=Find+%C2%BB

What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content -
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

Can photographers be plagiarists?
Click here for a slide show about two similar shots of Shanghai’s Nanpu Bridge..
Thoughts on Turnitin.com
A fellow blogger asked for a dean’s-eye-view impression of turnitin.com.
Lethem, Vaidhyanathan, et al talk copyright and plagiarism on NPR tonight
Cory Doctorow: [...]

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