Current Edu-Bloggers
As George Siemens comments, "This has been the busiest week I've seen in the field of edu-tech bloggers." Or as Jay Cross says, "It feels like this train is finally leaving the station. Bravo!" I second that; I cannot even keep track of the dizzying pace. More...

Seb's "Weblogs and Knowledge Sharing" Survey: Results
In a nutshell: those who use weblogs, use them a lot. Statistically this survey probably isn't especially relevant, since the respondants, self-selected, are almost all regular weblog users (which would be how they found out about the survey). More...

D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog
It's interesting to watch David Wiley reach out - as he has been the last few weeks - to the learning object community. This article is a summary of points covered in a conference call he had with a number of learning object developers today. More...

Blogging is most certainly not dead
Jason Kottke, kottke.org, 2018/04/16
This is mostly just a set of links to some odds and ends in the blogging world, but there are comments I want to highlight. More...

Semantic Blogging Demonstrator
It may just be a demonstration, but the content of this semantic blog is pretty good. The idea here is that blog entries are not merely a written comment. Each entry is associated with a set of metadata; readers can view the metadata in N3 or RDF XML, or browse it in something called Brownsauce (which appears to be broken in my browser). More...

Weblogging
Interesting bit on weblogs transcribed from PBS's Online Newshour (audio and video feeds are also available). The core message is the use of weblogs to democratize journalism, with a subtext emphasizing their clout and impact, as demonstrated in the unseating of Trent Lott. More...

Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?
Jakob Nielsen examines the phenomenon of text-based ads. They have been a success on Google and are beginning to infuse blog-space. I think there are two sides to this story. The first is that, since text-based ads load quickly and don't distract the reader, they are more tolerable. But equally importantly, the Google ads (at least, though not the blog-space ads) are contextually relevant. More...

The Tipping Blog
Nice analysis of how a meme (that is, a catchy article or idea) posted in a weblog can spread like wildfire through the internet. It happens every day and it happens something like this:

1. An Expert (one might call her a Content Maven) Writes or Creates something interesting and puts it online (creating the critical component of any online ideavirus: the link)
2. A Link Maven comes across the link, and blogs it to their site
3. A Connector finds the link and blogs it to their site (or the aforementioned Link Maven has Connector-like traffic levels)
4. The link starts to Tip within the weblog community
5. The link Tips beyond the weblog community, as the rest of us find out about it."

All these terms are neatly defined in this article, with explanations. More...

Blackboard
Blog-style coverage of the recent Blackboard conference in Balitmore. Coverage from days 1 and 2 include a good overview of recently added features to the LMS software, including SOAP interfaces, Shibboleth and even RSS. Day 3 is an overview of vendors catering to the Blackboardsphere. More...