Blogging May Change the Future of Publishing

January 28, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Books, Education, Features, Science, research | 3 Comments

Grand Text Auto, a group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry and art, has recently launched an interesting blogging experiment that may take blogging and publishing to the next level. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is putting the manuscript of his upcoming book Expressive Processing, about digital fictions and computer games, online so that the Grand Text Auto […]

Edublogs Campus: Bringing Blogs to Schools

January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog Networks, Blog News, Blog Software, Education | 1 Comment

I worked on my school newspaper. Didn’t you? Many bloggers got their first taste of joy in writing while working on a newspaper or newsletter at school. Imagine what your education would have been like if your school newspaper was a blog?
James Farmer of Edublogs is bringing blogs to the schools, and his new Edublogs […]

CollegeScholarships.org Launches $10,000 Blogging Scholarship Competition

September 4, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Contests, Education | 3 Comments

CollegeScholarships.org has recently announced its 2007 Blogging Scholarship competiton where one exceptional student blogger will be chosen for a $10,000 award. Any eligible college student with a personal or professional blog may participate. You may also nominate fellow students who blog.
Scholarship Requirements:

Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are […]

College appoints freshmen to blog about first year experiences

August 9, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Education, News | 1 Comment

Staff at Wabash College, Indiana, have for the second year appointed three freshmen to blog honestly and openly about their first year experiences at the college.
Though the college already has a number of established blogs, last year saw the first written by students just starting at the college. Staff decided not to edit or censor […]

Riding A Blog

June 27, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Education, Features, Guides and Tutorials, How I Blog | 1 Comment

Becoming an expert Blogger and ridding a bike have many similarities that extend far beyond the initial learning experience. As with riding a bike, Blogging takes time to master and since bikes are considered a form of transportation you can ride many places just as you can target your Blog to many people. See the […]

Scottish children adopt blogging to aid study

June 18, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Education, News | 3 Comments

Pupils at a primary school in the county of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, are adopting blogging as a way of improving how they learn, and as a way of communicating with other schools around the United Kingdom and Europe.
They are involved in blogging, and creating podcasts, including recording themselves speaking French. It aids their learning as […]

Irish children should be taught about blogging and social networking

May 24, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Education, News, Technology | 8 Comments

James Greenslade, Director of Information, Communication and Technology at Tipperary Institute, has said that Ireland needs to prepare second-level students (11-16s) for the changing face of the Internet, and its impact on communication.
“We teach children how to cross the road, provide sex education classes but the reaction to web based social networks has been to […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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