By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Papers of WWW2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem
Via Mathemagenic, the papers from this World Wide Web con ference on blogging are available. Personally I think that when a bunch of researchers release their papers about the web in PDF (especially two-column PDF) they demonstrate that they are profoundly not getting it. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Feedster Top 500
Feedster has joined the blog ranking game in a big way with its list of the top 500 released today. Sad to say, downes.ca has once again been overlooked in the quest for web fame, despite, according to Feedster itself, racking up 7,988 links (see Feedster, or if you need speed, the screen shot), a number that would put me in 18th place. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Four Reasons Why the Blogsphere Might Make a Better Professional Collaborative Environment than Discussion Forums
This proposal outlines how teachers could use blogging as a conversation and collaboration tool. I think it's a bit complex (for now). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Eduforge Blogs
As Josie Fraser summarizes, "Eduforge has recently undergone a transformation, with the help of the eXe Editor Project. It's now full of read/write web goodness - including fully featured blogs, Planet Eduforge - a feed aggregator, wikis, and a new teaching tools showcase". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Collaboration Tools: What's Out There
Blog coverage (and some notes by Alan Levine) and MP3 audio from our collaboration tools session at the Seminars on Academic Computing conference here in Snowmass, Colorado. The audio quality is, um, variable. The discussion focussed mostly on wikis and tagging tools, but we digressed a lot. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms
Readers will recall that I featured Bob Sprankle and his class in these pages back in May. Now they've hit the big time, being headlined in this New York Times article. To me, this is the essence of education: "I want to give these kids the tools to say, 'Hey, my voice is important in this world,' This blog helps me do that." Others, though, see value only in testing. More...