Archive for August, 2004

Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part III

In my last two posts, I wrote about the limitations of one method for tracking memes and the promise of second method. That latter method, in brief, was to tag each meme-containing post with a unique text string that could enable you to use a search engine as an aggregator. But how can this be […]

Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part II

In my last post I talked about a meme tracking experiment and bemoaned the fact that it provided no way to track arbitrary memes in the wild. Luckily, an e-Literate reader put me on the track to a workable idea in his comment on a previous post.
Martin Terre Blanche points us to a post on […]

Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part I

The other day, I ran into this post on the Contentious weblog which, in turn, led me to this longer post about an experiment conducted by a PhD student. Basically, he created a survey that he asked people to fill out, post to their blogs, and then pass on, like chain email. He wanted to […]

EDUCAUSE Wiki Article

Every once in a while, you read an article where the author seems to be able to read your mind and anticipate your every reaction. Brian Lamb’s EDUCAUSE piece on wikis is one of those articles. I’ve never been all that interested in wikis; they just don’t seem like they should work (even though I’m […]

The Definitive Article on Educational Blogging

I’m going to do something I normally don’t like to do an echo blog this. Stephen Downes’ piece on educational blogging in EDUCAUSE is currently the definitive piece on blogging in education. Well worth the read whether you are a newbie or a veteran. I don’t really have anything of use to add here; Stephen […]





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