I really hope this is just a visual display bug. I’m getting the shakes just thinking about this.
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just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
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I really hope this is just a visual display bug. I’m getting the shakes just thinking about this.
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During the MooseCamp session “WordPress and your problems” I promised to look into a few items that we were discussing, and report back to the group. I’ve finally made some time to dig around, and here’s the goods.
Nancy White asked some questions about tweaking her WordPress site, and they were all things that sounded really [...]
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It’s my blog, and I get to determine what is spam and what is not. The latest round of human-generated spam is getting past the automated spamblocks because the comments look valid. They’re natural language, often on topic, and occasionally even interesting or insightful – or relevant to the post being spammed.
I’m using a few [...]
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I’m not going to post a conference recap, and others have beaten me to the punch with eloquent reflections on the event. It’s one of those things that sounds like fanaticism – the sense of wonder usually reserved for such things as the TED conference (aside: could you imagine going to that? how many toes [...]
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If you can read this, then the FeedBurner feed redirection is working properly. If your feed reader didn’t update your subscription automagically, the URL to the main feed for my blog is
http://www.darcynorman.net/feed
Hopefully things won’t get confused or lost in the shuffle…
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I just disabled two separate blog stats packages, each for a different reason. This move was partially inspired by the upcoming “F*** Stats – Make Art!” session on the docket at Northern Voice.
First, I disabled the FeedBurner FeedSmith integration plugin. This is a handy way to automatically redirect requests for RSS feeds to the FeedBurner [...]
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The spam problem has been the bane of openly available “web 2.0″ sites since, well, forever. Everyone universally hates spam. Everyone, universally, wants to see it go away. Why is it still a problem?
Wait. Not everyone wants it to go away. There are two groups of people who benefit from spam.
spammers
google
Of course spammers won’t stop [...]
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EduGlu is a concept that came out of some discussions at Northern Voice 2006 – almost exactly 2 years ago – as a way to make sense of an individual’s distributed content in the context of a course. The problem is on one hand very simple – a person publishes a bunch of stuff, and [...]
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