If pets could blog
"The Joy of Tech asks the unaskable: what if cats and dogs could blog?" I have the answer to that one. I gave my cat a web page in 1995 and she didn't update it for eight years. Pet blogs. More...

Exploring the Use of Blogs as Learning Spaces in the Higher Education Sector
The authors write that "the chief purpose of this paper is to comment, critically, on the potential for blogs as 'learning spaces' for students within the higher education sector," which it does with an examination of how blogs have been used at Harvard Law School and Queensland University of Technology. Some interesting bits, including some reflection on the dearth of refereed literature about blogging (the edu-bloggers tending to put the work in their blogs instead, where it is subject to a rather more vigorous screening). More...

A Weblog For Every Student
People doubted my claim a month or so ago that there would be tens of thousands of teachers using weblogs this academic year. I have no real stats on this (and no way to get any) but the University of Warwick seems bent on making the prediction come true all by itself as it offers a weblog for every student. More...

Scribe Studio
Yesterday I said we need a 'Blogger' of e-learning. Here is something that tries, but perhaps does too much, as it incorporates any type of content(Word, PowerPoint, whatever), creates questions and quizzes, enables student logon into an LMS, even lets you charge students. The system is hosted, which means that for the user it is totally web-based. No word in the intro or the white paper about exporting courses. More...

Obstacles in the Path of a Blogging Initiative
Light look at some of the obstacles faced as a fictional history professor decides to start a blogginitiative for his class. Summary of a presentation by Trey Martindale at ITI in Logan, Utah. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, September 2, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

Educational Blogging
The September EDUCAUSE Review is out and features my article on the topic (as the title suggests) educational blogging. This is a longer article, looking at the nature and history of blogging, educational applications, tools and technologies, trends, and early experiences in educational blogging. More...

There's AdSense in My Blog!
The message from Blogger (aka Google): "We are going to start paying bloggers. Soon you will be blogging for dollars." The move comes only a few days after Google removed the advertising bar from Blogger blogs (to the cheers of bloggers everywhere). More...

The Semantic Web Meets The Blogosphere
Let's begin with the end on this one, a very Kantian thought: "each animal in cyberspace is a placeholder for a human being with a certain unique sphere of interests. This way, no node in the network is ever redundant or obsolete: everybody contributes, and there is no dead weight." This is right, and deeply right. Now how does this come to be. More...

Random Walk in E-Learning
Well-known e-learning researcher Albert Ip has given in to the inevitable ;) and launched a blog. More...

An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
Very good article describing the size and distribution of the weblog tools market (where a weblog tool is a system that allows you to build a weblog). Leading the way, with about half of all blogs between them, are Blogger and LiveJournal. More...