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Entries from March 2008

E-mail newsletter or blog or feed?

July 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I urge everyone new to blogging to start with the analogue blog (analog blogue?) and map out what you want to do, who’s the audience, how much work do you want to exert, etc.
Scot’s Newsletter makes a good point.
3. Don’t unsubscribe because you’re going to use the RSS feed instead. The SFNL RSS feed is [...]

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Tags: do your homework · edublogosophy · edublogs.org

Another code display and the Live Writer extension

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

At the BlogHerald (on the list of recommended readings for new edubloggers), Lorelle VanFossen discussed Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts… Another tool, I mentioned here… Here’s the direct link to the Live Writer extensions to be able to add code to posts. It’s hard to find their stuff.

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Tags: blogging blogginess

Images in Live Writer

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I still can’t quite figure out what’s happening below–
This is what I did:

Published post is opened from the blog in Live Writer.
I clicked on the image but changed nothing.
Post was published as “Post draft and edit on line”

In the text below, the original published post in the blog editor window with image thumbnail that displays [...]

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Tags: blogging blogginess · in process

More tips for USB portable computing on thumbtops

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Gizmo’s latest newsletter continues his series on portable computing security and his experience with U3 and proprietary USB program launchers. see Port-a-puter for the roadless warrior: U3 and thumbtops, portable computing and How to make a Thumbtop PC
Issue 147, 19th July, 2007

http://techsupportalert.com/issues/back_issues.htm

Editorial
Securing USB flash drives is not quite as simple [...]

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Tags: blogging blogginess

Regional Calendar test of Live Writer

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Live Writer seemed to be adding code to the earlier published post that ended up stripping the image out. So here is a test (the original post has been corrected)
 

This was developed as a central place for people (inside and outside the region) trying to plan meetings and trips. Too often meetings overlap or the [...]

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Tags: blogging blogginess

Paul Hamilton tutorial links

July 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Paul Hamilton has a list of useful tools, including a link to edublogging tutorials
The bookmarks below were generated using the GreaseMonkey script from Social Bookmarking Helper 4 Wordpress.Com - A Greasemonkey Userscript July 7th, 2007 — Satya Narayan The bookmarks generated at other posts come from a modified bookmarklet from http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/social-linking/
I [...]

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Tags: blogging blogginess · edublogs.org