June 1st, 2008
Participatory Spamming
Getting press releases, requests from people you don’t know to write a blog entry about something you know little about? You’re not alone. I’ve seen a lot of edublogs that post press releases, reinterpreted in a personal way. When you’re a blogger, you’re hungry for content to share. Recycling press releases is one way, though [...]
CompuTrace Clarifies Part Deux
I recently wrote about CompuTrace, revisiting the topic that it’s one vulnerability is that if you load GNU/Linux onto a CompuTrace laptop, you’re safe from being tracked with a stolen laptop. I share that because I notice that one of the most visited posts on my site results because of these search terms: how to [...]
We Shall Overcome
Skimming my Doug Johnson this morning as I waited for the family to wake up (actually, we have a rooster in the form of a poodle that insists on whining for attention at the exact same time every morning), I ran across this quote: Education is also a means of keeping the rich, rich and [...]
StatsJunkie – Withdrawal Symptoms
It’s been a few days…Statcounter goes up, then down. Currently, it’s down. How will we all get our daily fix of visitor stats? Fortunately, Feedjit is still alive and kicking. I can see visitors from all over, and track what their favorite pages are. I’m not sure how much longer I can last without [...]
Visitor Check-In Systems
One of my Professional Development Meme activities is to write an article exploring campus visitor check-in systems. I’ll eventually publish it in Education World, but started doing the research last week. Some of the questions I’m asking include: Are there any particular features that make this kind of system desirable, aside from the ones you’ve [...]