Category Archives: Blogging

Thoughts on my rather intermittent blogging life. On others who blog . . and the practice of blogging.

WordPress Themes (revisited)

Tackling again the task of having a new theme here.But what I need probably requires more than I can manage. Mimbo A cool theme: but some complexities. A post at DarrenHoyt.com gives some background to using template tags and custom … Continue reading

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Three posts . . .

Why is it that when I go to blog, I often find several topics ijn my mind at once!!

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WordPress and Themes

It’s not been as simple a process to get a new theme as I thought.  Here are a few random links I have traversed in the search for a good theme. Essential Blogging Resources and Downloads. blogosquare.com/ Blog Tutorials www.blog-tutorials.com/category/design/ … Continue reading

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

This was a suprisingly painless experieince, the first time I have done it completely unaided.  I have decided to not move over the themes: I will engage in a new theme search tomorrow and get some new ones to try. … Continue reading

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Fictional Blogging

GE331 at Otago University runs a really cool class activity. Write collaboratively in a wiki.  (In this case a script for a soap opera) Blog (in character, in german) for a month.  [This is an interesting genre]  Shoot the video … Continue reading

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Community Platforms

Just had an e-mail from some of my buddies at cpsquare announcing a January workshop on Community Platforms.  Great Idea.  I’ve been mulling around possible futures for Interact – maybe spin it off as a slightly narrowed aim (not have … Continue reading

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Lots of thoughts: need to clear my head

I’ve just realised how many draft posts I have had.  14.  Most with several paragraphs of unfinished thoughts.  Some of the topics include: unWorkshop thoughts on Professional Development Nancy White: Competencies for online Web 2.0 & Change Processes E-Fest. Workshop: … Continue reading

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A new theme

I need a new theme. I’ve done a bit of browsing, and decided on something a little less busy than the current theme. I guess I still like Anaconda, and tried Cutline (Number 2 on WordPress Themes) for a while, … Continue reading

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PLE’s (My inevitable post)

I’ve been in and out of this topic for a month, ever since the SCoPE discussion finished.  I don’t have a coherent view, and whenever I’ve talked about them it’s been more a show and tell and dialogue about our … Continue reading

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Unconferences again.

Just found the blogging conference in Brisbane. A sort of unconference. Here is a quote from their page of information about format. Adapted from the BloggerCon IV Format by David Winer. This will be an unusual conference. We generally won’t … Continue reading

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