By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'Blog People' Respond
Facing criticism on the American Library Association Council for an article criticizing Google Scholar published in the L.A. Times and an ill-conceived follow-up about the "Blog People", ALA President Michael Gorman is now claiming to have written in jest. "The piece (LJ, February 15th 2005) was intended to be satirical," he writes on the ALA Council list server. Does anyone believe this? Of course not. This is satire. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Three Great MindManager Blogs
I've never found mindmaps particularly useful, but many people have. Those who use MindManager will want to look at these three blogs recommended by James McGee - Mike Jetter, Hobie Swan and Nick Duffill. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blogging and Benefiting
Overview of blogging in education written for ASCD's Education Update which looks sound at first but suffers from questionable research. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Community Blogging
So anyhow I have been stranded by the weather for the second time in as many weeks, this time thanks to a snowstorm in Toronto. I'm on my way home from Northern Voice where I delivered this talk, an analysis of community as it emerges in blogging: how it is formed, how it should reshape the blogosphere, and how it can be implemented (quite easily) technologically. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Multi User Weblogging
A number of people have asked me about multi-user weblogging (that is, setting up a single installation to support multiple writers, as a teacher might do for a class). I guess they have been asking other people, and it's James Farmer who comes through with the goods, a really nice overview of options for people who want to support multiuser weblogging. More...