cerebral odd jobs

Eudora is a great note taking, journal/diary, correspondence, info management, etc. I have the last Windows version (Eudora 7) which also has a built-in X1 file searcher. Eudora doesn’t have the ability to quickly add a reminder, unlike Outlook or other PIMs (personal information managers. Lotus Organizer was also great but no longer published). However, [...]

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A new on-line magazine has been launched.
Today is the official birth date of the Edublogs Magazine. It’s been almost a year from the idea-dancing-around-our-head stage, trying to come up with a way to create an umbrella blog that would bring together the exciting Edublogs community.
We wanted to feature bloggers and news from within the Edublogs [...]

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[updated] 2008-03-20
At one point there were few teachers from the tundra regions writing blogs. Few enough I could put them all into one RSS feed mix in the sidebar as I came across them.

[Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/
[Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling [...]

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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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I forgot exactly how I got to this site, but it was immediately through “Public Geek” job title. The guidelines are for list-servs participants but I think would be useful for blogging communities, especially the edublogses. They also have a “posting policy”.
Web4Lib is specifically aimed toward librarians and library staff involved in World-Wide Web [...]

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Fortunately, web logs are not the be-all and end-all of the Internet. List-servs (e-zines, E-mail lists) are great and better than RSS feeds for many things. The Internet Scout Report is an excellent example.
====== In The News ====
>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
19. Code of conduct proposed for blogs (click here for [...]

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