Category: social-hardware

I'm starting to question the reasons why I decided to give each year group I teach a blog. If you check out the 1st year interaction blog you can clearly see lots of useful information and ideas. Its also been used as a general notice board at the moment for arrangements and planning. Which is fine, just interesting to see happening. Those who dont blog are either not that bothered and usually dont turn up to my lessons too much or dont have a easily available blogger.
Have a look at the 2nd year interaction blog and its windy city. Very few posts and little in the way of interest, no offense to HarryT or Paulo of course. So i'm thinking join them up. It would be trivial to do, as all blogs are stored on the filesystem as text files. The hardest part would be arranging categories and telling everyone the new xmlrpc address. I could redirect everything else though. Or even with the intiative of people.rave.ac.uk – I could finally offload the blogs to a real place?

Ok I'm sorry but sometimes I read about the progress of mobblogging and i'm not exactly as thrilled as I when I first heard about it. But this is a whole different matter. I'm loving the idea. Instead of mobblogging yourself, why not let your robot dog do the hard work. And it makes so much sense, cant believe people havent thought about it before. Whuffie takes most of the photos.

welcome to the world's first and only “roblog”. currently, a sony aibo robot dog and a er1 / tablet pc based robot post automatically to this site throughout the day, and once and awhile a human (phillip m. torrone) does as well. roomba to be added this weekend.

Blojsom uses the Atom API – which has caused a huge divide in the community. Alongside the older blogger and metaweblog API's. So its pretty much forward looking. I havent spent enough time looking at it but there seems to be a few good applications already, even if there only demos.

People have started writing plugins – Yeah its not exactly the moveabletype community but you know what its the start of things? By the way, has every mac user gone nuts for ecto? And I need to try out NetNewsWire's Atom beta.

Ah ha, I knew I was right, blojsim is broken in Blojsom 2.xx. I tried and tried to get it working a while back for myself and my students. So I'm also assuming that pop2blog is also broken too?
Anyway, I'm holding my breath for blissim?

I need an alternative to blogger apps, because one of the interaction blogs is going great but I think the other one would get going if there was a simple way to blog without owning a laptop, going home or the obvious webadmin thingy. So I've been playing with pop2blog and blojsim again…But I believe none of them work in the multiuser backdrop of Blojsom 2. Which is a shame because I really need to keep the momentium going. Which reminds me I need to transfer Blojsom to a college server at some point in the near future. Mines fine for now, but I can not offer any backup or promises that things will stay up… Users use at there own risk basicly.