BIT320 Remix: remixing Archives

Why Blogging is a GOOD idea

I talked before about the Benefit about knowing 5 languages and while don’t even claim proficiency let alone fluency it has been an interesting semester. It is obvious that learning the 5 languages is a lot like learning a foreign language. I have always felt that it would be easiest for me to learn a foreign language by being put in the middle of a country that speaks the language. The reason for this is that people learn best from multiple sources. Therefore if I was in a foreign country there would be many people teaching me, as opposed to a class room which traditionally has one professor teaching many students. Bud has completely changed this in his class. First he has basically dropped us off in the middle of a foreign country having us dive head first into XML, and just like how we would really be if we were put on a foreign land we were scared and confused as everyone around us was speaking a foreign language, but now just a few weeks later we all seem to have a much better understand of the new languages we are starting to comprehend. Also he has shifting the job of teaching from just him to the entire class. We all help each other learn, in essence making more teachers. This helps in two ways. First whenever I have a question I don’t just have to go to Bud, I can blog about it, or ask a classmate for help. Second, when we help each other or tackle questions together we solidify and internalize concepts. Another idea that makes this class exceptional is the use of the internet in the class. Most classes only use textbooks as reference, but frequently we are encouraged to find websites that provide answers to our questions, references, or further information about a topic. When students find these they post them in their blog. Which brings me to my final point as to why this is a good class. The blog. Sure it is difficult and sometimes unpleasant to post in your blog because we are busy or can’t think of a good topic, but if you look at all of my points you will see they all revolve around blog. Of course, if we were not required to blog or it was worth a little portion of our grade we would not do it, but with emphasis put on it, we are all using it and benefiting from it.

In SuperMatt, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Cell Phone Prices

If you are tired of the steadily increase in the price of cell phones, there is reason to look to the future. Chip makers are in the process of making prices drop dramatically by 2007. My first reaction was that the quality would be the result of the decrease. This article offers a sense of relief however with the vice-president of Entry Platforms at German chipmaker Infineon saying,

“Low quality is not an option, but accepting fewer features is,”

But will we be satisfied with less features or have we become so accustomed to these new top of the line features? I can’t say that I’d be so quick to change.

In The Blogstar, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

A Perfect Remix Cont…

I agree completely with Matt M when he says

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’d love to see this remix continue and grow once the class is over.

I think we need to continue this site after the class is over. I know FOR A FACT we will not blog 5 times a week, but it would be easy to do, and an exciting way to keep up with each other well after graduation. I’m sure after Project2 or with the help of Bud, any of us could set up a site that would use RSS feeds to pull our articles and put them in a blog. Now this would not need to be fancy, but it would be a easy way to keep up. Not only would this be a fun/social thing, but it could be another networking tool. For example, if in a few years, I want to connect someone with Microsoft, I can simply get on the blog site and I know that at least 2 people reading the blog site will be Microsoft employees. One thing I have learned about networking is the best way to keep up contacts is to remind people of yourself without bothering them. Blogs are a great way to do this. With a blog people always have the option of reading what you have to say without bothering people. I would encourage all of you to even think about creating similar sites with your friends. In my case I was thinking about creating a RSS feed blog site for my business school friends and my fraternity brothers. It is such an easy way to keep contact and with virtually no cost.

In SuperMatt, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Blogs used by media to get info

News reporters used Kara Borden and her boyfriends Facebook, myspace, and Xanga blogs to find information and remarks made by the teenage couple. Her boyfriend murdered her parents while she was present, in what many believe was a planned murder that both were involved. Reporters have looked through the accounts for statements that are clues as to the circumstances leading up to the murder.

There were some statements made that give clues that the murder was planned, but it doesn’t seem like there is too much to go on.

In musings of william h, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

You won’t see my blog listed on my resume

Privacy is becoming impossible as Matt points out in his blog. He makes a very understandable argument saying

I’m curious as to all of your opinions on this subject. Personally, I would like to think that my personal life would be kept seperate from my job life. What I do at home should be my business and my business alone

I think this is an all too real problem. In the past, I have heard of background checks and even sometimes private investigators used to lookup histories on potential and current employees. While this process is time consuming about difficult, Googleing someone is cost effective and easy. For this reason, I could see many HR departments doing such things.

To give you one such example, I myself and interviewing with a company later this week. In my blog I have specially pointed out flaws this company has. If someone could track my comments, I could be in danger of no longer be considered for the position. For this reason, I did not put my real name with the blog.

In SuperMatt, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Blogs affecting hirability

Matt brings up an interesting point, in his discussion on how having a blog can affect if you will get a job. This is something to think about. If you apply for a job, run for government office, or even if you are a leader of an organization, the things that you say in blogs can come back to haunt you. I personally am very hesitant to use my real name on anything that I write and post online. I would say that this is the solution to the problem, just use a different name or spelling of a name so that you can’t be searched. This allows you to remain uncensored in your blogging and without reprecussions in other parts of your life.

In response to the comment about not wanting to work for a company like that, I disagree. You can’t judge a company by its hiring policies, because most public companies follow the same basic procedures when hiring new applicants. It’s just smart business to do checks on applicants. If you put your opinions on the web with your name and its googled, then I think that it is your own fault, as you knew that it could happen by posting to a publicly viewable area.

In musings of william h, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Flock it to me

So I recently ran across a news article that talked about a new browser called “Flock“.

In a similar vein to the site TigerLily blogged about (SuperGlu), flock takes a stab at remix culture from the browser end. Apparently Flock is a beefed up version of Firefox that really emphasises remixing. Apparently, it does away the traditional idea of “bookmarking” in an internet browser where every person has their own self-contained favorites. Instead, it’s tightly integrated with del.icio.us so that when you run across a page you like, you can “star” it and tag it. Then it gets sent to your del.icio.us account. Then it further remixes things up by recommending other pages that might be of interest based on the bookmarks of other people who have common bookmarks with you. Things getting a bit crazy here? I think so.

I think this is a really cool idea and I can’t wait to see it in practice. However, Flock’s only currently available in a developer build (think pre-Beta)…so it may be a while. But I’m definitely going to keep an eye on this.

In Matt's Musings, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Adding a counter my second try

Well here I go again, for some reason I’m curious about how many viewers are making their way over to my site. Taking Supriya’s advice, I followed the link in here blog, to get free html text that should display a counter and other visitor statistics about my blog. After writing in my blog nearly 60 times, of course I want to see if anyone is reading. If this works, I suggest that you add it to yours. One thing I have noticed is that everyone in the class is very cognizant of people outside of the class reading their blog. This is another way to track activity.

Website Counter

In SuperMatt, 11/30/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Screen Shots in Posts

In one of Aga’s posts she talks about the idea of using the print screen function. This is a good idea because it saves students time, and ensure an exact replica of text. However I’m worried about the clearly of the reading. Also it is a huge pain to do. In fact, I have tired numerous ways to insert a screen shot and it doesn’t seem to work. This first way I tired was to save the screen shot as a file then insert it in the blog. That did not work. Then I tired to copy and paste the image in, but that did not work either. In both of these tries, the computer basically tries to post a local file into my blog. The only way I figure I could do this is to post the picture (screenshot) on the internet somewhere then have the html code pull the picture from the website where the file is located. All of this is much harder than just coping and pasting the XML text. Does anyone have an easier way?

In SuperMatt, 11/30/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Wired News: Blogging With a Wooden Tongue

Blogging growing pains

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/30/2005 | Original | Archive

More teens wearing their hearts on blogs | IndyStar.com

Teens and how they blog

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot | Is Wi-Fi Ruining College?

"It seems a bit of a stretch to impute a causal relationship, but it's certainly possible that the kind of brain that can handle multiple channels of information is also the kind of brain that earns A's."

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Will the Button Work?

What I can I say, it appears my first FrontPage blog didn’t go as planned. Basically I thought I could insert a counter into my blog by adding the pre-made HTML that FrontPage. However, it didn’t work. So I thought I’d try another function. , I made an interactive button which should act as a link to bring interested people to my blog with the phantom counter. If anyone knows how to add a counter to a blog using HTML I would be interested. Hopefully, this feature will be more successful than my first. I think it will work except that my Button is currently clear. Hopefully I can solve this problem and repost.

In SuperMatt, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

FrontPage - My New Blog Editor

After Kevin , had a problem with his blog. Bud suggested that we use FrontPage to write and edit our blogs so they are neat and organized. This will be my first blog written with FrontPage. Obviously when adapting to new software there will be set backs, but I think FrontPage offers a lot more functionality. It is great for learning HTML because if I can’t figure out how to write something in HTML, I can click on the Design tab, add whatever to the document then click back on the Code tab to see how to do this with html. Of course most of the time I will simply write my blog in WordPress, but every once in a while I will try to add something new. Today’s feature is a counter.

In SuperMatt, 11/16/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Remix Culture

How teens are increasing "remixing" their lives

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)

"if I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go whereever it wants to go"

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Class Remix Answer

Matt and I recently commented about editing blogs within the class remix site. For some reason we can edit the blog on our blog site but not on the remix site. So in other words, once the blog post is published, it’s no taking it back. I’m not sure if this error between the connection of our site with the remix site will be fixed soon so maybe Bud will respond to that.

In The Blogstar, 11/04/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

57% of teens create, remix, and share contenet online

Remix Culture among teens

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Class Remix Question

For whatever reason, one of my blog posts got submitted twice and showed up twice on my blog. When I realized this, I took the duplicate post of my blog. However, the class remix stills thinks I have both and displays both. This made me wonder about the connection between our individual blogs and the class remix site. Once the post shows up on the remix, are you unable to delete/edit that post and have the changes reflected in the remix?

In Tigerlily's Blog, 11/04/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Matt’s featured Feature

In the spirit of the midterm tomorrow I thought I’d blog about my favorite feature in Oracle the IN operator. Let just say the IN operator did exist and I wanted to list the number, name, and credit limit for each customer with a credit limit of 5k, 10k 15k. My sql script would be:

SELECT CUSTOMER_NUM, CUSTOMER_NAME, CREDIT_LIMIT

FROM CUSTOMER

WHERE CREDIT_LIMIT = 5000

OR CREDIT_LIMIT = 10000

OR CREDIT_LIMIT = 15000;

But thanks to the IN Operator it looks something like:

SELECT CUSTOMER_NUM, CUSTOMER_NAME, CREDIT_LIMIT

FROM CUSTOMER

WHERE CREDIT_LIMIT IN (5000, 10000, 15000);

Anything that saves me typing is a great help. Are you interested in more ways to use the in functions? Check out what these bloggers had to say about it.

In SuperMatt, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Trying to Stop what I’ve Started

When I wrote my last post I was hoping to create some buzz about the grading scale. My complaint was not that it would force or change competition but rather I think that we are all exceptional students and I wish we could all be fully rewarded for that. BIT320 is a unique course that requires more collaboration and multiple points of learning than most courses. To me it is like learning a new language and unless I have someone to practice the language with I will never be fluent. Bud does his best by pointing out in his post that:

the lion’s share of credit in this course is given based on your contribution to the class knowledge

To that end, I would encourage all of you to collaborate as much as possible, and don’t worry about studying for tomorrows quiz, I’m sure we’ll all do just fine.

In SuperMatt, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

SuperMatt is #1 2

After reading Kevin’s #1 blog I thought I’d check the Google-ability of my blog. I was happy to find out that when I searched “SuperMatt” on Google my blog was the first to populate. Unlike Kevin, I have decided not to use my real name in the blog so if I Google my name nothing related to my blog appears. I don’t think any harm can come out of having my name attached to my blog, but to me better safe than sorry.

In SuperMatt, 10/22/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Hardblogger - Chris Matthews blog

Chris Matthews' blog discusses whats going on in politics and other important current events

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/16/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo adds blogs to news searches

Yahoo has added blogs into its pool of sites that is searches when a keyword search is performed

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/11/2005 | Original | Archive

I Can Say That

In response to Matt’s blog about censorship on blogs, I believe that author’s of blogs should have a lot more leniency in what they can and can’t write than they would in class or in written work for class. Blogging is about expressing your honest opinions and sharing your specific views and information with others. It is not about political correctness. If the author is worried about being politically correct, his blog will not be as much of an expression of his inner self, and becomes what other people want it to be. That defies the purpose of blogs, providing authors with the freedom to say what they REALLY think and feel.

I do agree that cursing should not be used and also that racial slurs and other truly offensive remarks should not be used. And I guess in a classroom blog, the teacher is the only person that can use his power to stop that sort of behavior. But slang should be invited and students should feel that they are finally getting the chance to let out what they really think.

In musings of william h, 10/11/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Character Blogs

Following up on what JB said in his blog about his opinion on character blogs, I agree that it doesn’t matter who in the company is authoring the character blog. No one that can use the internet effectively is that naive to believe a character is writing it, and if they do not want to read a blog in which there could be multiple authors or fictional characters, they should just opt-out and not view it.

In my opinion, blogging is a new form of communication and there shouldn’t be rules imposed on the medium. Each person should have the right to express whatever they want, whether it be speaking from their own heart or living out a fantasy as a crazy character. Personally, I would probobally have more fun writing in the form of an interesting cartoon animal than myself.

So, to summarize, where does anyone get off trying to tell other people what they can and can’t do in a still evolving expressive medium.

In musings of william h, 10/11/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Classroom Blogging Professionalism / Class Culture

After reading jb’s blog, and other like it. I want to put in my two cents. I think that each class develops its own culture. Last year during core class, every one of us had the same classes with the same students, yet the class acted differently depending on the class and the professor. In my section for example, students were very quiet, attentive, and studious in your finance class, yet one hour later in marketing we were rambunctious. Now in Bit320 our class has its own culture. For example, during class when we have a question we just speak up as opposed to the traditional hand raising. The same applies for blogs. The entire class knows each other, and addresses each other casually. We are still courteous, but casual and friendly.

In SuperMatt, 10/10/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Google Reader, I Don’t Get It

I thought I would share with you a post I put on my main blog:

I like Google’s portal pictured on the left. Their new reader, announced at Web 2.0 today and pictured on the right, just does not compare. The portal outperforms the reader on all measures you would think the reader would be better at.

Neither interface scales well to a high number of sources, but you don’t expect that with the portal. The portal displays more information in a single eyeful than the reader. Further, in the portal, fewer clicks are required to get to a given piece of information, and the information sources are clearly labeled.

Bottom line, from a usability perspective, the Google portal is a better feedreader than Google reader.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

The Community Engine

Our class Remix

In del.icio.us/mridge, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Forums About Storage Devices

Forums in which people that don't know each other give advice and share stories about different options and brands of data storage

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/02/2005 | Original | Archive

Remix Site

SuperMatt makes the observation:

Although the Community Engine has everyone’s blog trying to find blog posts of my classmates is still difficult. One solution I had thought of to remedy this problem is to some how split the screen between the blog posts and the my del.clious bookmarks.

following up on the remark in Kevin’s blog:

After two weeks of blogging, I am still not convinced of the benefits of blogs over threaded discussion forums, especially when trying to build an interactive community.

to which Shady Waters said she felt:

en though the structure we have is of little islands of themselves, I think that if we even put everyone in a forum that we would almost end up in the same situation because it does take a lot of time to to look down the long list of posts and figure out what to respond to in either case.

In this kind of situation, we have an incentive to post, but no incentive to interact highly.

I’m glad to see a consensus emerging on this. Here’s the consensus I see:

We’re operating like little islands.
In part, the class is set up to force individual contributions, so it is fine if all I am doing is making my individual contribution.
However, that said, it is sort of frustrating to publish into the void or to have to spend so much effort to just follow the thread.
Maybe there is an interface solution we can try to fix this.
Some interface solutions, like using a discussion forum, may not be as good as we think.

As it turns out, there are a few solutions to this issue. One that we will test out is Matt’s suggestion to filter out the del.icio.us bookmarks on the main page.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Discussion Forums vs. Blogging

I complete agree with Kevin on his post. Although the Community Engine has everyone’s blog trying to find blog posts of my classmates is still difficult. One solution I had thought of to remedy this problem is to some how split the screen between the blog posts and the my del.clious bookmarks. Otherwise I have to open blogs to find and respond to blogs.

In SuperMatt, 09/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Blogs are Mainstream??

On Thursday night I was watching The OC, which is considered a trendsetter. On this episode they mentioned blogging. I found it surprising that such a mainstream TV show would mention blogging. Which makes me wonder are blogs becoming mainstream? I think that blogs will become well known and most people will at least know what they are. However I don’t think outside of gossipers, egomaniacs, and techies it will become that popular.

In SuperMatt, 09/24/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

What is considered class content?

In class today, Bud said that we should have 80% of out posts/bookmarks be class related (meaning information society). I was wondering what that actually meant. What classifies something as part of the information society? I am having a hard time deciding how specific to the class Bud actually wants our content to be.

In Tigerlily's Blog, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

start.com and our remix

JB asks the question:

He said that when he includes links to our re-mix on his interactive homepages, it increases the likelihood of our site showing up in searches like Google. Why? I don’t know a lot about how to make your site show up in a search. I thought I understood that the more your site is visited, the more likely it is to show up in Google. But what does a link on Start.com have to do with this?

The simple, intuitive answer is that the more things pointing to you, the easier you are to find.

A more complex answer states that two key search engine criteria are relevance and coverage. Relevance is determined by semantic analysis of your content (i.e., analysis of your content for meaning) and whether other sites deemed to be relevant link to you. Therefore, links from other sites help.

Coverage is how much of the relevant stuff the search engine has in its index. As regards coverage, consider the problem faced by search engines. There are over 11 billion web pages and over 17 million blogs. How does the search engine know when there is a good new one. One way is for people to start linking in either their online feedreaders or on their web pages.

I provide a case study of this with a class we ran over the summer here.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Learning Space Design Interview with Bill Dittoe

Might be worth a listen. I think the real issue is to get the informal aspect right. The web is an incredible archive, but by and large, really only semi-structured by search and the like. It requires a flexible approach for classroom integration.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Online Higher-Education Market to Exceed $6B in 2005

Not entirely surprising, but still only a drop in the bucket of the total educational spend. Many aspects of education might be better accomplished online, particularly if any sort of archival material is involved. Does this include homegrown?

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/21/2005 | Original | Archive

A New Approach to Sharing Web Research

A web archiving tool. No notion of remixing, merely shares web content with selected others. One wonders how big the market can be for this. The archiving, not the collaboration features are the strong point.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and syndicate RSS and Atom feeds

A service that allows you to remix feeds, creating web pages or feeds on feeds. They've broken the 10k mark with about 3 remixes per user. Requires a technical understanding to use. No archive on your own site, just theirs.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Search: Big indexes versus microformats

Makes the point that adding metadata like tags and microformats needs to be ridiculously easy.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Mailinator:Spam Map

Uses google maps and their spam database to map spam. Can this itself be gamed?

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Socialmarks.com - Social Bookmarking. Social RSS/Atom Feed Syndication. Automated Trend Discovery.

Should we be doing this instead of the Learning Remix?

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/14/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Blog Search

An extremely good blog searching tool by google. Search for LearningRemix

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/14/2005 | Original | Archive

NewsFire blocks RSS ads

"Is NewsFire the first of what may be many aggregators to block advertisements in feeds?"

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Interactive blogging

Matt raises an interesting point:

My vision for the future of knowledge sharing definitely involves blogging because it is an easy way to share ideas. However blogging is not interactive in that people are not yet able to work on projects together through blogs.

I agree that you probably need more than blogging. However be careful of vendors offering you free services that are normally for pay. What are some alternatives to webex?

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/13/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Taking the big plunge

jbartko makes some interesting observations:

Seven days ago, I had absolutely no answers to the above questions. Today, I can give you a vague response to most of them. But I still feel as though I have a lot to learn this semester. I don’t usually find myself so lost on terminology during the first week of class. I have never claimed to be an expert on the Internet, but I definitely never realized how much there is about it that I have never even heard of.

Hang in there, Jenny, the class is about exploring new topics. You get points for making blog posts like this one where you lay out the issues as you see them and start to try to address them.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/12/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Remixing the blogosphere

An article about the benefits of remixing as opposed to individual blogging

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 09/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Duplicate entries

As Kevin rightly observes:

When editing either a blog post or del.cio.us bookmark, the remix site seems to pick up a new copy of the post rather than modifying the existing one.

Right now, there seems no way around it, but I will research it. It has to do with when a feed item is considered new and how you identify a feed item. There are some standards for this, but they are followed unevenly. There is even some debate as to whether items are, in fact, updateable. For now, just treat everything you write and publish as though it were sent, much like email.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/11/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

A brief email with James Farmer

James Farmer is the person hosting these blogs down in Australia, and he is quite the entrepreneur. Basically, as near as I can work out, he’s interested in this class because he sees it as a potential prototype for professional blogging communities. My cut is that the chief aid to community building on the technology side is something like the remix page we have developed.

But, I think the real dynamics of these things comes from the fact that we are all engaged in this class around one purpose, trying to achieve the workplan laid out in BIT320.

So, James and I have emailed back and forth a bit with these things in mind. At this stage, I think we are going to stick solid with the current version of the blogging software, warts and all. It does the job, and upgrading during the semester could prove a painful diversion.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/10/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Class remixing is starting

Students have delicious accounts. They have blog accounts. They are rearing to go. Can’t wait.

You can read how to do this here.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

The Start of Remixing

This is my blog for BIT 320 remixing. I will post here often with exciting opinions. I hope you all enjoy!

Read how to do this here

In Tigerlily's Blog, 09/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

We have the remix engine set up

I’ve set up all of the reBlog instances and the cron jobs. The class should be set to automatically remix at this point.

In case you are wondering, reBlog is a software that pulls RSS feeds from the web and allows us to collect their contents in our class site. Cron jobs periodically fire off the machinery to make all of this happen.

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/04/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Publishing in the BIT320 Remix Site

This is our first post to the BIT320 class remix site. We will be using post categories to organize the conversations in the class. It is very important that you use a category on each post. That’s not hard to do because the wordpress blogging platform we are using allows you to create those on the fly.

Due to software limitations, you should only use one word categories. If you absolutely must use more than one word, then concatenate the two words using lower case. Here’s an example:

Class Issues -> classissues

my ideas -> myideas

In Blogonautic Solutions, 09/04/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

SQL, XML, & Ice Cream

A remixable web learning project at Michigan's Ross School of Business

BIT320 Remix — remixing

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