Category Archives: blogging

Need to blog again!

Posted on December 6, 2012 by cpjobling

With my daughter now staring her own blog, I feel guilty that my blog has been silent for so long. “I’ve been busy” is some kind of excuse, I suppose, but I know that I’ll be even busier next year. … Continue reading →

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Testing markdown

Posted on June 14, 2011 by cpjobling

Just installed extended php-markdown plugin and this post is written in markdown as a test. Here’s some emphasis strong emphasis and code. A bulleted list another item A numbered list another item The code: Just installed extended [php-markdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) plugin and … Continue reading →

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How many blogs is too many?

Posted on February 13, 2009 by cpjobling

I regularly post to three blogs. This one, which used to be work related, is now sort of miscellaneous. I try to keep my other blog @the.coalface, which is a multi-user WordPress blog hosted at my University, focussed on my … Continue reading →

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Blog Networks on Facebook.

Posted on June 30, 2008 by cpjobling

Today, I discovered Blog Networks after reading Sarah Parez’s posting “Blog Networks like MyBlogLog for Facebook” on ReadWriteWeb. Blog Networks is a new Facebook application that allows you to embed your favourite blogs (including your own) into your Facebook profile … Continue reading →

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Social Software: Scary Monsters?

Posted on June 28, 2007 by cpjobling

So we’re all agreed. Blogs: good; email: bad. Wikis: good; sending round attachments to a dozen people and then having to merge all the changes by hand afterwards: bad. This one goes out to all my colleagues who really do … Continue reading →

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Test of Oremi feed to Blog feature

Posted on June 8, 2007 by cpjobling

I have subscribed to this Blog in Oremi (Swansea University’s implementation of Elgg) so this entry should appear both in my RSS aggregator (called Resources in Oremi) and also as a Blog entry inside my Oremi space. I have similarly … Continue reading →

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Name check at the Learning Lab

Posted on May 22, 2007 by cpjobling

Just a quickie to note that this blog has had a name check in the Swansea Learning Lab Blog in an article about Bloggers at Swansea U. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any more visitors and comments. … Continue reading →

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Place to record experiments with no-markup markup

Posted on April 19, 2007 by cpjobling

As a first part in a series of experiments on light-weight markup languages (e.g. for blogs, wilkis, presentations etc) I have installed the PyBlosxom blogging tool. It tool a few minutes more than the 10 minutes claimed in the user … Continue reading →

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Lunch and Learn: Enters the Blogsphere

Posted on March 23, 2007 by cpjobling

I’ve just returned to my office after attending a Lunch and Learn session on Blogging and the uses of Blogging in education. Nichola van den Berg from LIS was the presenter and she gave a very nice introduction to blogging … Continue reading →

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Moving to Google Reader

Posted on February 6, 2007 by cpjobling

I’m in the process of moving my Bloglines aggregation settings to Google Reader. The features that I like abou Google Reader that prompted this move are: I can add multiple tags to RSS feedsReader shows you what’s new (and also … Continue reading →

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