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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
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Blog Migration
In my move from Blogger.com to this self-hosted WordPress there are a couple of things that I have had to do that I thought would be worth documenting. These fall into the general headings of Comments, Permalinks, Feeds, and Categories and … Continue reading
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Welcome Class of 2011
Welcome to the blogging exercise ICCT class of 2011. Please leave the link to your new blog in the comments.
How many blogs is too many?
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
Blog Networks on Facebook.
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
Social Software: Scary Monsters?
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
Test of Oremi feed to Blog feature
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
Name check at the Learning Lab
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
Place to record experiments with no-markup markup
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
Moving to Google Reader
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






